If you can find out how Solr evolved over the years, you can perhaps follow that same path
On Mon, 21 May 2018, 18:35 Erick Erickson, <erickerick...@gmail.com> wrote: > Another useful trick is the class hierarchy displays most modern IDE's > have available to get a sense of what class is where. And I second > Emir's comment about picking some feature. _Nobody_ knows all the Solr > code, and that's not even including Lucene. It's big, very big. So > pick a feature you want to understand and/or improve and stick to that > or you'll go nuts. > > And a great way to get a sense of how a feature works is to find the > unit test that exercises it and just step through it in the debugger. > And if there's no unit test, another great way to do things would be > to _create_ a unit test. Or fix some of the BadApple tests, but those > will be pretty hairy.... > > Best, > Erick > > On Mon, May 21, 2018 at 7:18 AM, Emir Arnautović > <emir.arnauto...@sematext.com> wrote: > > Hi, > > I would start from the feature/concept that I find documentation to be > vague. If you think that everything is like that, I would not start with > code just yet and would focus on understanding high level concepts first. > Also, you need to figure out if some feature is Solr or Lucene and if it is > Solr if cloud mode is involved or not. I would suggest that you start > simple tog get familiar with Solr concepts. Set up local dev env, put some > break point and start following it. > > > > Good luck, > > Emir > > -- > > Monitoring - Log Management - Alerting - Anomaly Detection > > Solr & Elasticsearch Consulting Support Training - http://sematext.com/ > > > > > > > >> On 21 May 2018, at 12:35, Greenhorn Techie <greenhorntec...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> > >> Hi, > >> > >> As the documentation around Solr is limited, I am thinking to go through > >> the source code and understand the various bits and pieces. However, I > am a > >> bit confused on where to start as I my developing skills are a bit > limited. > >> > >> Any thoughts on how best to start / where to start looking into Solr > source > >> code? > >> > >> Thanks > > >
