On 11-Oct-2013, at 10:03 AM, Tom Morris wrote: > 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.
Yes. Mainly because we are more comfortable using the package that comes with the ubuntu distribution than installing it ourselves. > 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? I've been working on building solr index offline. The plan is to publish it along with monthly dumps. It'll take some more time before it happens. Anand
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