+1 (If I get to vote :-) ) 5.0 is looking like a lot bigger deal on the usability features than when the original jump was discussed several months ago.
It would be nice to have users to actually try those features before RC1 of Final. Which requires some articles to drive adoption, etc. Regards, Alex. ---- Sign up for my Solr resources newsletter at http://www.solr-start.com/ On 6 January 2015 at 14:53, Erik Hatcher <erik.hatc...@gmail.com> wrote: > sounds good, I’m +1 - 5.0 is a big deal and it’ll be good to get the > “5.0-FINAL” as solid as possible. Having an alpha release would surely get > a larger number of folks trying it out. > > Erik > > On Jan 6, 2015, at 2:48 PM, Anshum Gupta <ans...@anshumgupta.net> wrote: > > I'd like to suggest that we call the next release 5.0 alpha and follow it > with either 5.0 or 5.0 beta (if need be) on the lines of the 4x releases. > > As for the history behind calling it that, here's a post about the 4.0 alpha > release that should clarify things I'm thinking about. > > http://lucidworks.com/blog/4-0-alpha-whats-in-a-name/ > > Again, this would be a stable, production release. Like all other public > releases but would give us the freedom to change APIs that need to be > changed. > > Thoughts? > > -- > Anshum Gupta > http://about.me/anshumgupta > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@lucene.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@lucene.apache.org
