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Cassandra Targett commented on SOLR-10842:
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I'm working through how to reorganize Solr's entire "Getting Started" content. 
I think it's really fair to say it's "poor" today. Here's a breakdown of what 
we do today in that section:

Getting Started
* Solr is awesome!
* Sections in this section

Installation
* Java requirements
* Untar the package (doesn't use package name "solr-x.y.z.tar.gz")

Running Solr
* Start Solr (and stop)
* Create a core
* Basic indexing

A Quick Overview
* Schema concepts
* Solr is amazing!

A Step Closer
* Install directories
* Major config files

Solr Control Script Reference
* Start/Stop
* Create/Remove Collection
* Auth
* ZK

A fair bit of duplicated concepts, low on actual facts, page titles don't 
reflect what is actually covered there, etc. I'm still working through how I 
might replace it, but one thing is I want the pages to be clear and give users 
a really solid orientation to the system.

> Move quickstart.html to Ref Guide
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>
>                 Key: SOLR-10842
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SOLR-10842
>             Project: Solr
>          Issue Type: Improvement
>      Security Level: Public(Default Security Level. Issues are Public) 
>          Components: documentation
>            Reporter: Cassandra Targett
>            Assignee: Cassandra Targett
>            Priority: Minor
>             Fix For: master (7.0)
>
>
> The Solr Quick Start at https://lucene.apache.org/solr/quickstart.html has 
> been problematic to keep up to date - until Ishan just updated it yesterday 
> for 6.6, it said "6.2.1", so hadn't been updated for several releases.
> Now that the Ref Guide is in AsciiDoc format, we can easily use variables for 
> package versions, and it could be released as part of the Ref Guide and kept 
> up to date. It could also integrate links to more information on topics, and 
> users would already be IN the docs, so they would not need to wonder where 
> the docs are.
> There are a few places on the site that will need to be updated to point to 
> the new location, but I can also put a redirect rule into .htaccess so people 
> are redirected to the new location if there are other links "in the wild" 
> that we cannot control. This allows it to be versioned also, if that becomes 
> necessary.
> As part of this, I would like to also update the entire "Getting Started" 
> section of the Ref Guide, which is effectively identical to what was in the 
> first release of the Ref Guide back in 2009 for Solr 1.4 and is in serious 
> need of reconsideration.
> My thought is that moving the page + redoing the Getting Started section 
> would be for 7.0, but if folks are excited about this idea I could move the 
> page for 6.6 and hold off redoing the larger section until 7.0.



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