Helped along with upgrading drupal.org to Drupal 7 and specifically the Solr side of Drupal.org. Made good progress! See http://drupal.org/node/1684952, http://drupal.org/node/1687498, http://drupal.org/node/1549374 and http://drupal.org/node/1549496
Full progress log can be seen here : https://drupal.org/node/1683530