I’m not a committer but I wholly disagree with this sentiment. The amount of information in the solr reference guide is vast and it is the first place I go to find out how some component works. I rarely have to go to the code when there is some piece not documented in enough detail in the reference guide.
On Wed, Jan 13, 2021 at 10:51 PM Tom Hoffelder <[email protected]> wrote: > Folks, > > The detail on the lucene.apache.org/solr/ is very brief and poor. It > seems you are just pushing folks to buy the newest SOLR book. very sad, > who new is going to use this tool if the documentation detail is lousy. > Most will just go buy a well document non-open sorce tool that is well > supported. > > The introduction pages are just a half page is detail, a Readers Digest > book has more information. Once again, open sorce folks have their tin cup > out trying to collect funds by selling books and not educate new comers. > Imagin the use population of you tool if it was easy to use and no > secret-secret on how to use and set. Everybody could use their own private > data mine and we crawl tools, it would marginalize the Google world/impact. > > Have a nice day. > > TH > > > > > > > > > > -- Adam Walz
