Dear Tom, Speaking as a Solr user who has not even been very active on this list for a while,though we continue to use Solr, I am a little surprised to hear the sentiment in your message. In my experience, anything that I needed to know about Solr, from getting started with the basics to much more complicated requirements were answered by the online documentation, Google searches, and queries on this mailing list. Have yet to buy a Solr book, and have not seen anyone pushing people in this mailing list to buy a book. I think that books serve a different purpose, and are often useful, so not sure why they would not be referenced in the available resources.
Further, among the several open-source mailing lists that I subscribe to , this list has been among the friendliest, and most welcoming to people.There are several regulars, including many Solr / Lucene committers, that take the time to help people. Maybe your criticism would be more constructive, and help improve the documentation if you would point out specifics of where it falls short. What did you try, and what issues did you have that were not addressed by the documentation? Did you try following up on this mailing list? Regards, Gora
