[SOLR-14388] Remove references to rule-based replica placement in the ref guide

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Won't Fix
• Component/s: documentation, SolrCloud
• Assignee: Erick Erickson
• Reporter: Erick Erickson
• Created: 05/Apr/20 13:29
• Updated: 27/May/20 18:05
• Resolved: 10/Apr/20 21:58

Description

There are lots of references to rule-based replica placement in the ref guide, but it's being deprecated (although that effort seems to be stalled).

We should at least direct people to using a Policy before the rule-based placement code is removed.

I'll put up a patch shortly.

Issue Links

• incorporates: SOLR-12741 Nuke rule based replica placement strategy in Lucene/Solr 8.0
• is part of: SOLR-12740 Deprecate rule based replica placement strategy
• links to: GitHub Pull Request #1406