Yes, was activated by me at the same time that Noble said he finally wants to start the RC phase for 5.3.1.
By the way, the error that the backwards-compatibility index is missing was seen several times already: https://builds.apache.org/job/Lucene-Solr-SmokeRelease-5.3/ (once each day, already 3 failed jobs) Uwe ----- Uwe Schindler H.-H.-Meier-Allee 63, D-28213 Bremen <http://www.thetaphi.de/> http://www.thetaphi.de eMail: u...@thetaphi.de From: Steve Rowe [mailto:sar...@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, September 11, 2015 3:43 PM To: lucene dev Subject: Re: 5.3.1 bug fix release Uwe re-enabled the 5.3 branch jobs on ASF Jenkins three days ago <https://builds.apache.org/computer/lucene/> and on Policeman Jenkins two days ago (only one job AFAICT): <http://jenkins.thetaphi.de/job/Lucene-Solr-5.3-Linux/>.