[TYPO3-Solr] [ANN] Solr Usability contest started

[Alexandre Rafalovitch]

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 11:03 PM, Alexandre Rafalovitch
<arafalov at gmail.com>wrote:

> Hello,
>
> As mentioned a week ago on Solr User mailing list, I have setup a contest
> to collect Solr Usability ideas
> (http://search-lucene.com/m/**QMVb129wpXc/<
> http://search-lucene.com/m/QMVb129wpXc/>
> ).
> It is fully explained in a blog post: http://blog.outerthoughts.com/**
> 2013/07/announcing-solr-**usability-contest/<
> http://blog.outerthoughts.com/2013/07/announcing-solr-usability-contest/>
>
>
> Typo3 is one of the more active PHP-based projects using Solr, so I feel it
> would be important to hear your views. Typo3 makes it very easy to start
> with Solr and exposes a lot of Solr functionality. Therefore, there is a
> need to understand how Solr works, especially for more advanced cases. And,
> since Solr is in Java, some of the more advanced functionality is hidden in
> JavaDocs and Java-specific issue trackers. This contest tries to make
> visible Solr Usability issues you can see by looking at Solr from outside.
>
> I am hoping that this will be announced in 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.
>
> Regards,
>    Alex.
> Personal website: http://www.outerthoughts.com/
> LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/**alexandrerafalovitch<
> 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)
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