On Thu, Oct 10, 2013 at 9:28 PM, Anand Chitipothu <[email protected]> wrote:

> On 11-Oct-2013, at 4:54 AM, Tom Morris wrote:
>
> > 1. OpenLibrary currently uses an ancient version of Solr (1.4.0) which
> is 4+ years old.  Is there a reason not to upgrade?
> >
> > 2. If we update, should we target the very recent 4.5 or the last stable
> maintenance release from the previous major version (3.6 from Dec. 2012)
> >
> > 3. Is there a way to get the database reindexed in Solr for my dev
> instance?  I blew away all my Solr indexes when I installed Solr 4.5 and
> I'd like to get the indexes rebuilt.
>
> Have been working on a vagrant based-dev instance with ubuntu 12.04, solr
> 3.6 etc.
>
> https://github.com/anandology/openlibrary/tree/vagrant
>
> Haven't merged with master yet. Hope to do that in this month.
>

So, that sounds like a vote for 3.6 (or 3.6.2?) over 4.5.  I guess I should
have asked before starting work.

My 4.5 based branch is here (although I think most of the required changes
were introduced by 3.x):

https://github.com/tfmorris/openlibrary/tree/solr-upgrade

Any answer to the remaining question on how to get Solr to re-index the
database?

Tom
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