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From: "Smiley, David W." <dsmiley@mitre.org>
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Date: Fri, 15 Jul 2011 16:09:12 -0400
Subject: Re: Solr Ecosystem / Integration wiki pages
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Thanks for offering feedback; if nobody commented I was going to send an FY=
I post to the dev list.
Comments below.

On Jul 15, 2011, at 3:39 PM, Chris Hostetter wrote:

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> : integrating Solr with other applications.  What isn't there is a list o=
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> : what web/email/file crawlers exist, data integration pipelines, and the=
re
> : are some other odds and ends like distributions/forks of Solr (Lucid &
> : Constellio), and Solandra.    So I started to put together this page:
> : http://wiki.apache.org/solr/SolrEcosystem  instead of essentially
> : duplicating what's on SolrIntegration I linked to it.  I suspect that s=
ome
> : might feel that all this information should live on SolrIntegration and=
 so I
> : should move this.  Yes?  I really liked the idea of naming this "Solr
> : Ecosystem" but I admit that when it comes down to it, it's basically ab=
out
> : integrating with Solr. =20
> :=20
> : Any thoughts on this from anyone?
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> Looks fine to me.
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> I think it makes sense to have a distinction between the "ecosystem" of=20
> tools and such that might be of interest to people using Solr (which may=
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> or may not know about solr directly), and tools that exist specificly to=
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> "integrate" Solr with other things. =20
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> I updated both pages to try and clarify their purpose.

I noticed your change on IntegratingSolr but not SolrEcosystem, which is st=
ill at rev#3.

> One thing that would be nice on hte EcoSystem page is to better call out=
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> when/how these things can be used with solr by linking to info about that=
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> rather then just putting a *S* next to them -- if there isn't a document=
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> somewhere on those sites mentioning Solr, then claiming they have some=20
> level of Solr integration is kind of missleading.

I agree that adding a link would be helpful.  By the way, every place there=
 is an *S* was deliberately placed there by me because I identified the exi=
stence of Solr-specific integration. Do you believe I misattributed an *S*?

~ David=