solango. Another attempt at a Django/Solr integration library, based on code written for “a top 20 newspaper site” (I’d love to know which one). This is well documented, uses a registration model clearly inspired by the Django admin which keeps search related metadata out of your regular models and includes management commands for re-indexing and generating Solr schema.xml files.
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Simon, The paper is The Washington Times. Optaros did the work for us to get our Ellington/Django site up last year.
Sean wasn't sure he had our permission to mention us, but we told him it was perfectly ok. :)