+1 fine idea Rob! On Thu, Jan 21, 2016 at 2:18 AM Robert Muir <rcm...@gmail.com> wrote:
> one idea, we could use it to our advantage: as soon as we go to git, > immediately (e.g. after just a few days or whatever) start a 5.5 > release? > > besides keeping things less confusing, it could make the 6.0 release > more easygoing. because we'd have already worked through the pain of > release process and tooling changes with a technically "easier" > release otherwise. IMO basically a major release is hard enough on its > own, we might want to separate the two things... > > basically we'd suffer the one-time pain of "first git release" > immediately up-front, when svn->git is fresh in our minds. after that > first release its on the wiki and no big deal... > > guess there are downsides to this idea too, e.g. it'd be effort that > could be spent on 6.0, having to backport git build system changes to > 5.x, etc. > > On Wed, Jan 20, 2016 at 6:58 PM, Shawn Heisey <apa...@elyograg.org> wrote: > > All indications I've seen are that there will be no 5.5 release, that > once > > the git transition is complete, the focus will be on stabilizing the 6.0 > > release. Is this a correct statement? There are quite a lot of things > > mentioned in the 5.5 section of CHANGES.txt, plenty for a minor release. > > > > If we are abandoning work on branch_5x, I am OK with it, I'm just looking > > for information. > > > > Thanks, > > Shawn > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@lucene.apache.org > > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@lucene.apache.org > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@lucene.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@lucene.apache.org > > -- Lucene/Solr Search Committer, Consultant, Developer, Author, Speaker LinkedIn: http://linkedin.com/in/davidwsmiley | Book: http://www.solrenterprisesearchserver.com
