Drupalcon Boston: Solr Bof
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March 5, 2008
At 1:00, in room 252A, we'll be having a "Birds of a feather" meeting to discuss the future directions of the ApacheSolr module. I'll be giving a short demonstration of what the module can currently do, and then we'll talk about:
- Solr features that aren't yet implemented
- How to expand the test coverage
- The relevance of search results and how to measure/improve them
- The state of ApacheSolr documentation
- ApacheSolr for Drupal 6
- Search and Drupal 7
The meeting was great
We had about 20 people sitting and discussing. I presented Solr, talked about what it can do, what it can't, what needs to be done and who can do it. Then we stepped back a level and looked at Drupal's search needs in a more general way, as well as looking at the very cool faceted search module by David Lesieur. When we saw his module and its fantastic UI and admin area we came to the conclusion that we needed to abstract those elements away from the away from the actual search implementation. Search implementations should be able to interact with the generic search building UI based on what features they offer. In other words, we need a search API. We are going to organize a search sprint with some of the people who were in attendance and try to do this for Drupal 7.
-Rob
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