On Oct 28, 2008, at 5:21 PM, markharw00d wrote:
It may be a good summer of code project if someone wanted to
implement reading and writing data via the GSA feed interface...
Do you mean the Google Summer Of Code initiative? I can't imagine
Google would be keen to support a project whose goal was to provide
an open-source, drop-in replacement for one of their commercial
products :)
Google doesn't vet GSOC applications... ;-) Heck, it's even Apache
licensed...
I can't believe this idea received no replies!
I guess it's just not an itch anyone here feels a particular need to
scratch right now - and that is always what is need to get the ball
rolling.
Maybe another avenue is to approach the commercial providers who
have already contributed GSA connectors and ask them to consider
writing a Solr-based consumer endpoint based on the GSA connector
protocol. They may be commercially incentivised to do this and can
then claim their products can hook up to either GSA or open-source
Solr using the same interface.
I think it may be of interest at some point. I don't have the cycles
at the moment, but it's definitely something I think makes sense to
have in Solr.
