Hi folks, *TLDR;* I put up a github repo (check it out): https://github.com/nsoft/index-solr-ref-guide
*The Details:* Last Year I announced JesterJ's 1.0 release and gave a lightning talk about it at Haystack. There were lots of folks who seemed to think it sounded cool, but I got zero useful feedback, and no evidence that even one person downloaded and ran it. This was very discouraging, and I wound up ignoring it for a while. I suspect the problem is that trying it out on a project at work is too high stakes, and the majority of folks attending conferences already have some sort of working solution. Also coming up with data to index that isn't entirely pointless can be a chore. Tonight I was thinking a thought I've had many times before: It's kind of silly that the Solr ref guide isn't indexed and searchable in a solr instance. Currently the ref guide uses a JS based library which has the downside of not being able to serve results for past versions. Then it hit me. This is a great, low stakes way for people to play with JesterJ and try it out without having to go search for data. So tonight I took 30 min and wrote an ingest to consume Solr Ref Guide (it was that easy! almost faster than building the html site) and and now I have a repo that anyone can check out, and fiddle with, that doesn't include the whole JesterJ project. It's intentionally just a starting point. Please give feedback or even PR's. I made a couple of issues noting the most obvious enhancements. I am aware that there have been attempts to do this in the past, and it's non-trivial to do it well, but I hope this can be a fun community effort with no time pressure, and opportunities to learn lots of different things. Enjoy, Gus -- http://www.needhamsoftware.com (work) https://a.co/d/b2sZLD9 (my fantasy fiction book)
