Hello. I wanted to do a follow-up after the contest has been running for a week.
It has been going relatively well. There was a lot of visitors last week, then a bit of quiet and then - after some of you re-announced the contest - a second wave of activities. Thanks to everybody contributing and promoting. Certainly, the introductory blog article got a lot of readers. In terms of specific ideas, there were not as many yet. Perhaps it is hard to think of an idea when staring at an empty page. Therefore, I have just added a number of ideas of my own that hopefully will trigger additional contribution. Some of these come from suggestions/complaints I have seen on various Solr forums, some might be quite original. Please visit and contribute. And even if you don't have any ideas of your own, come and vote for the idea most useful to you, now, in your current work. Or in that dream Solr project that you got stuck on and had to pause. The forum's direct url is: http://solrstart.uservoice.com/ Regards, Alex. Personal website: http://www.outerthoughts.com/ LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/alexandrerafalovitch - Time is the quality of nature that keeps events from happening all at once. Lately, it doesn't seem to be working. (Anonymous - via GTD book) On Wed, Jul 24, 2013 at 11:50 AM, Alexandre Rafalovitch <arafa...@gmail.com>wrote: > Hello, > > As mentioned a week ago, I have setup a contest to collect Solr Usability > ideas (http://search-lucene.com/m/QMVb129wpXc/). It is fully explained in > a blog post: > http://blog.outerthoughts.com/2013/07/announcing-solr-usability-contest/ > > I am hoping that this will be announced at several communities that use > Solr. There is a large number of Solr client libraries, CMSs, library > systems and so on that have non-overlapping communities of Solr users. I > think it would be worthwhile to hear their joint opinion on what makes Solr > difficult. > > If you are on this mailing list and you also have a community of your own, > feel free to re-announce the contest there in your own words or contact me > directly with your mailing list/group details and I will be happy to do it > there myself. > > While Solr User mailing list helps everybody that asks, I still think the > contest will fill a real support gap. Certainly, as a person who did tech > support (for BEA) for three years, I feel that gap pretty keenly. It is > nobody's fault, but it does not mean we cannot fix it. And everybody will > benefit. > > Regards, > Alex. > > Personal website: http://www.outerthoughts.com/ > LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/alexandrerafalovitch > - Time is the quality of nature that keeps events from happening all at > once. Lately, it doesn't seem to be working. (Anonymous - via GTD book) >
