With Solr and Lucene 3.6 soon becoming the last featureful 3.x release and the release of 4.0 slowly drawing near, I thought it might be useful just to recap what all the various versions mean to you the user and why two very different versions are soon going to be made available. A Brief History […]

Whenever I talk my job with friends who are also IT professionals, the most commonly desired aspect is that I get to work in a community where everybody has a voice.  Apache Software Foundation projects like Solr and Lucene tend to work from the motto that if it didn’t happen on the mailing list, it […]