Hi, Unless I'm missing something, Nagendra is now (finally - good to see the contrib Nagendra!) trying to provide the patch for Solr. If the patch goes in, then there is no need for Nagendra to have this external project any more.
Nagendra, am I interpreting your intentions correctly here? Otis -- Search Analytics - http://sematext.com/search-analytics/index.html Performance Monitoring - http://sematext.com/spm/index.html On Mon, Oct 29, 2012 at 12:17 PM, Michael Della Bitta <michael.della.bi...@appinions.com> wrote: > As an external observer, I think the main problem is your branding. > "Realtime Near Realtime" is definitely an oxymoron, and your ranking > algorithm is called "Ranking Algorithm," which is generic enough to > suggest that a. it's the only ranking algorithm available, and b. by > implication, that Solr doesn't have one built in. > > I would suggest two improvements: > > 1. Come up with a top-level name for your overall efforts. Apache > Foundation has 'Apache,' so automatic branding of every component they > build. Then your ranking algorithm could be called "Tgels Ranking > Algorithm for Apache Solr" (for example), which is totally legit. And > "Tgels Realtime Search for Apache Solr." > > 2. Maybe point out that you're building on top of the work of the > Apache Solr and Lucene projects a little more prominently. > > I think with those two little tweaks, you'd actually very easily get > more people interested in your contributions. > > Just my two cents, > > Michael Della Bitta > > ------------------------------------------------ > Appinions > 18 East 41st Street, 2nd Floor > New York, NY 10017-6271 > > www.appinions.com > > Where Influence Isn’t a Game > > > On Mon, Oct 29, 2012 at 11:35 AM, Nagendra Nagarajayya > <nnagaraja...@transaxtions.com> wrote: >> >> Jack: >> >> I respect your hard-work responding to user problems on the mail list. So it >> would be nicer to try out Realtime NRT then pass rogue comments, whether a >> contribution is legit/spam or a scam... I guess it illuminates the narrow >> minded view of oneself ... The spirit of open source is contributions from >> not only commiters but other developers, from the Solr wiki "A half-baked >> patch in Jira, with no documentation, no tests and no backwards >> compatibility is better than no patch at all." >> >> You would gain more respect if you actually download realtime-nrt, check out >> if it does provide a view of a realtime index compared to a point-in-time >> snapshot, see if you can understand the code and provide clarity and >> feedback to the list if you do find problems with it. realtime-nrt offers >> search capability as to realtime-get. Checkout if this is true ... I would >> really welcome your comments on the list or through the JIRA here: >> >> https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SOLR-3816 >> >> >> Regards, >> >> Nagendra Nagarajayya >> http://solr-ra.tgels.org >> http://rankingalgorithm.tgels.org >> >> On 10/29/2012 7:30 AM, Jack Krupansky wrote: >>> >>> Could any of the committers here confirm whether this is a legitimate >>> effort? I mean, how could anything labeled "Apache ABC with XYZ" be an >>> "external project" and be sanctioned/licensed by Apache? In fact, the linked >>> web page doesn't even acknowledge the ownership of the Apache trademarks or >>> ASL. And the term "Realtime NRT" is nonsensical. Even worse: "Realtime NRT >>> makes available a near realtime view". Equally nonsensical. Who knows, maybe >>> it is legit, but it sure comes across as a scam/spam. >>> >>> -- Jack Krupansky >>> >>> -----Original Message----- From: Nagendra Nagarajayya >>> Sent: Monday, October 29, 2012 10:06 AM >>> To: solr-user@lucene.apache.org >>> Subject: [Announce] Apache Solr 4.0 with RankingAlgorithm 1.4.4 and >>> Realtime NRT available for download >>> >>> Hi! >>> >>> I am very excited to announce the availability of Apache Solr 4.0 with >>> RankingAlgorithm 1.4.4 and Realtime NRT. Realtime NRT is a high >>> performance and more granular NRT implementation as to soft commit. The >>> update performance is about 70,000 documents / sec* (almost 1.5-2x >>> performance improvement over soft-commit). You can also scale up to 2 >>> billion documents* in a single core, and query half a billion documents >>> index in ms**. Realtime NRT is different from realtime-get. realtime-get >>> does not have search capability and is a lookup by id. Realtime NRT >>> allows full search, see here <http://solr-ra.tgels.org/realtime-nrt.jsp> >>> for more info. >>> >>> Realtime NRT has been contributed back to Solr, see JIRA: >>> https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SOLR-3816 >>> >>> RankingAlgorithm 1.4.4 supports the entire Lucene Query Syntax, ą and/or >>> boolean/dismax/boost queries and is compatible with the new Lucene 4.0 >>> api. >>> >>> You can get more information about Solr 4.0 with RankingAlgorithm 1.4.4 >>> and Realtime NRT performance from here: >>> http://solr-ra.tgels.org/wiki/en/Near_Real_Time_Search_ver_4.x >>> >>> You can download Solr 4.0 with RankingAlgorithm 1.4.4 from here: >>> http://solr-ra.tgels.org >>> >>> Please download and give the new version a try. >>> >>> Note: >>> 1. Apache Solr 4.0 with RankingAlgorithm 1.4.4 is an external project >>> >>> Regards, >>> >>> Nagendra Nagarajayya >>> http://solr-ra.tgels.org >>> http://rankingalgorithm.tgels.org >>> >>> * performance is a real use case of Apache Solr with RankingAlgorithm as >>> seen at a user installation >>> ** performance seen when using the age feature >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>
