In case someone is interested: http://karussell.wordpress.com/2010/10/27/feeding-solr-with-its-own-logs/
a lot of TODOs but: it is working. I could also imagine that this kind of example would be suited for an intro-tutorial, because it covers dynamic fields, rapid solr prototyping, filter and facet queries, ... (and date faceting could be added)
Regards, Peter.