[GitHub] [solr] janhoy commented on a change in pull request #531: Developer docs for modules and packages

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janhoy commented on a change in pull request #531:
URL: https://github.com/apache/solr/pull/531#discussion_r785560804



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File path: dev-docs/plugins-modules-packages.adoc
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+= Plugins, Modules and Packages
+:toc: left
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+This document discusses how developers can group features into Plugins, Modules and Packages.
+
+== Definitions
+
+=== Plugin
+
+A plugin is a low level class that implements a certain Solr interface, such as
+`QParserPlugin`, `AuthPlugin`, `UpdateRequestProcessor`, `QueryResponseWriter` etc.
+See ref guide page https://solr.apache.org/guide/solr-plugins.html[Solr Plugins] for details.
+
+=== Module
+
+Earlier referred to as "Contrib". This is a well-defined piece of functionality that is

Review comment:
       Last sentence says "A module can contain multiple Plugins."
   I'm open for re-phrasing suggestions.




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