I realize that in the current context that this is a bit premature... there are certainly more pressing concerns in the Lucene.Net project. However, since we apparently have quite a few eyeballs pointed at these lists at the moment, I thought I'd send this out just to gauge interest.
On with it... I'd love to see an implementation of SOLR (either direct or in the spirit of) for ASP.Net / IIS / standalone Windows Service. I've used SOLR in the past in a Java shop, and absolutely loved the flexibility and power. It scales really well (we were indexing several hundred thousand forum posts per day on a large SOLR server cluster), is fairly simple to use (it does much of the grunt index management and caching work for you), is extensible, and can be appropriate for both small and large scale projects. It's also matured quite a bit in the past version. I'd love to be able to use SOLR for my current project, but unfortunately I can't... I'm now in a .Net shop. We sell server software for Windows servers, and I absolutely can't consider requiring a Java App server to run SOLR on our installations. I'd love to be able to run a SOLR.Net service on IIS (or as a standalone Windows Service.) Yes, I could roll my own, but after having experienced the maturity of SOLR, I'm leery of the effort required. Anyone else interested in this? Obviously there are quite a few questions to ask and consider for such a project... go ahead and fire them off if you wish in order to start a discussion. Peter Mateja peter.mat...@gmail.com
