If someone happens to step forward to be a release manager for 6.7, someone (could be the same someone, or someone else) needs to also step forward to do the Ref Guide for 6.7. I'm the one that usually does most of the work for the Solr Ref Guide, and I don't have time in the next 2 months to do 6.7 and 7.0 and my day job. If no one steps up to be RM for the Ref Guide, then I'm -1 on a 6.7.
I also don't want it to disrupt the 7.0 release at all - if there's even the slightest chance that starting 6.7 now will delay 7.0 further, I don't want to do 6.7. On Fri, Aug 11, 2017 at 2:37 AM, Adrien Grand <jpou...@gmail.com> wrote: > Le jeu. 10 août 2017 à 15:52, Erick Erickson <erickerick...@gmail.com> a > écrit : >> >> I've never understood this. Why? I realize we don't want to keep >> release 6.x forever, but what is it about a week in this case that's >> so horrible? We're not talking about introducing back-compat issues >> here. > > > We only have backward-compatibility tests. If the new version to be released > is greater than all other versions that have ever be released, this is just > fine. However if we release an older version, we need to make sure not only > that it can read older indices, which tests check automatically (they don't > test all cases, but enough to give us good confidence), but also that all > greater versions can read indices generated by this version (forward > compatibility), which falls under the responsibility of the release manager > since it is not automatically tested. In my opinion we should not take the > risk: let's just produce sequential releases and recommend users to use the > latest version. > > I see 7.0 needs to be delayed a bit more to fix some JMX issue, so this > gives us a window in case someone wants to be a RM for 6.7 without delaying > 7.0, but in that case let's build a RC and start a vote as soon as possible. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@lucene.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@lucene.apache.org
