[jira] [Updated] (SOLR-4434) Developer Curb Appeal: Better options than the manual copy step, and doc changes

["David Smiley (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

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David Smiley updated SOLR-4434:
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    Fix Version/s:     (was: 4.7)
                   4.8

> Developer Curb Appeal: Better options than the manual copy step, and doc changes
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: SOLR-4434
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SOLR-4434
>             Project: Solr
>          Issue Type: Improvement
>          Components: SolrCloud
>    Affects Versions: 4.1
>            Reporter: Mark Bennett
>             Fix For: 4.8
>
>
> We make developers manually copy the example directory to a named shard directory.
> Doc references:
> http://lucidworks.lucidimagination.com/display/solr/Getting+Started+with+SolrCloud
> http://wiki.apache.org/solr/SolrCloud
> Sample commands:
> cp -r example shard1
> cp -r example shard2
> The doc is perhaps geared towards a developer laptop, so in that case you really would need to make sure they have different names.
> But if you're running on a more realistic multi-node system, let's say 4 nodes handling 2 shards, the the actual shard allocation (shard1 vs. shard2) will be fixed by the order each node is started in FOR THE FIRST TIME.
> At a minimum, we should do a better job of explaining the somewhat arbitrary nature of the destination directories, and that the start order is what really matters.
> We should also document that the actual shard assignment will not change, regardless of the name, and where this information is persisted?
> Could we have an intelligent guess as to what template directory to use, and do the copy when the node is first started.
> It's apparently also possible to startup the first Solr node with no cores and just point it at a template.  This would be good to document.  There's currently a bug in the Web UI if you do this, but I'll be logging another JIRA for that.
> When combined with all the other little details of bringing up Solr Cloud nodes, this is confusing to a newcomer and midly annoying.  Other engines don't require this.



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