I hear you and sympathize but "SolrCloud" has been used long enough that I
doubt the trouble is worth it.  I guess that makes me "+0".  That said, I
think it wouldn't hurt to formalize "standalone mode" as-such and perhaps
say more explicitly that SolrCloud == "cluster mode" even if we don't
eliminate SolrCloud terminology.

And as SolrCloud ... errr... "cluster mode" I mean, gains in usage relative
to "standalone mode", perhaps we can reference SolrCloud less often and
sorta assume that and instead make exceptions in documentation to
standalone mode specifics where we call that out as such.  It's a loose
idea; I'm don't have an example in mind.

Similar to the above notion, maybe "CloudSolrClient" could be more
invisible without renaming it.  Imagine SolrClient.createFromZooKeeper()
etc. static methods that instantiate CloudSolrClient by default.  Just a
thought.

~ David Smiley
Apache Lucene/Solr Search Developer
http://www.linkedin.com/in/davidwsmiley


On Mon, Sep 30, 2019 at 11:19 AM Shawn Heisey <apa...@elyograg.org> wrote:

> On 9/30/2019 6:59 AM, Ishan Chattopadhyaya wrote:
> > I propose that we rename SolrCloud mode to "cluster mode" such that
> > there shall be "Apache Solr", running in either "standalone mode" or
> > "cluster mode". We can effect this renaming 9.0 onwards, if we have
> > consensus.
> >
> > I am open to any other proposal as well, so long as we drop the "cloud"
> > in the name.
>
> I see your point, but I think that "cloud" is so entrenched in the
> overall consciousness of the software that changing it will not be easy.
>
> Maybe it might be something we could accomplish slowly, over the rest of
> 8.0's lifetime and the entire 9.0 lifetime.  Begin changing the
> terminology we use in communication, start shifting documentation and
> code, with a hard cutover in a later major version, perhaps 10.0 or 11.0.
>
> The level of effort involved would be considerable, whether it happens
> quickly or slowly.  It might be the kind of thing we just don't want to
> try and do.
>
> I'm not opposed to the idea, and I might even be able to help, but it's
> going to need a lot of buy-in from those of us who work on Solr.
>
> Thanks,
> Shawn
>
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