Thanks Jan, Mike, and everyone else. This reads so much better, and I agree 
that this should be the standard structure.

I’m just updating the website right now. Once done, I plan to send out the 
notification. In case someone still wants to add/edit the notes, “now" is the 
time.

-Anshum



> On Sep 20, 2017, at 6:16 AM, Jan Høydahl <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> Ok, so I took the liberty of updating 
> https://wiki.apache.org/solr/ReleaseNote70 
> <https://wiki.apache.org/solr/ReleaseNote70> with my changes
> Note that the previous version of the release notes can still be found at 
> https://wiki.apache.org/solr/ReleaseNote70?action=info 
> <https://wiki.apache.org/solr/ReleaseNote70?action=info> for reference
> 
> Joel, look at the bullet I re-added about Math expressions, feel free to jump 
> in and modify now that it is in the Wiki.
> 
> Cassandra, I totally agree about ref guide syncing and communicating one 
> message.
> Also the practice of listing some of the major features introduced in 6.x is 
> a good thing.
> If you have wording improvements to my summaries, please chime in, I’m not a 
> technical writer :)
> 
> And please, I was serious about choosing 7 major features and not adding 
> random single improvements. The list has already creeped from 7 to 9 bullets. 
> If you want to add something, then ask youself which of the other bullets 
> that are less important to MOST USERS and then replace that bullet instead of 
> adding more. Agree?
> 
> --
> Jan Høydahl, search solution architect
> Cominvent AS - www.cominvent.com <http://www.cominvent.com/>
> 
>> 20. sep. 2017 kl. 14.34 skrev Joel Bernstein <[email protected] 
>> <mailto:[email protected]>>:
>> 
>> Hi Jan,
>> 
>> I added a note for Streaming Expressions in the comments. Could you add that 
>> to the release notes?
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> Joel Bernstein
>> http://joelsolr.blogspot.com/ <http://joelsolr.blogspot.com/>
>> 
>> On Wed, Sep 20, 2017 at 8:17 AM, David Smiley <[email protected] 
>> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
>> Excellent Jan!  Editorial summaries should be the standard our users expect.
>> 
>> 
>> On Wed, Sep 20, 2017 at 7:51 AM Jan Høydahl <[email protected] 
>> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
>> I think the (Solr) release notes feels more like a dump of JIRA descriptions 
>> than an editorial summary of main highlights.
>> People who want to dive deep can read CHANGES, let’s choose top-7 largest 
>> changes, describe them editorially and refer to CHANGES for the rest 
>> including upgrade notes?
>> 
>> I made a total re-write here 
>> https://gist.github.com/3afd5095834ee9e5d60b2eb304c21bec 
>> <https://gist.github.com/3afd5095834ee9e5d60b2eb304c21bec> including a 
>> general warning at the end that this is a major release that removes 
>> deprecated stuff and that you should read the upgrade notes.
>> Anshum, feel free to disagree and discard or use at will!
>> 
>> --
>> Jan Høydahl, search solution architect
>> Cominvent AS - www.cominvent.com <http://www.cominvent.com/>
>> 
>>> 19. sep. 2017 kl. 22.44 skrev Anshum Gupta <[email protected] 
>>> <mailto:[email protected]>>:
>>> 
>>> Please find the release notes here:
>>> 
>>> Lucene: https://wiki.apache.org/lucene-java/ReleaseNote70 
>>> <https://wiki.apache.org/lucene-java/ReleaseNote70>
>>> 
>>> Solr: https://wiki.apache.org/solr/ReleaseNote70 
>>> <https://wiki.apache.org/solr/ReleaseNote70> 
>>> 
>>> I am cleaning up the ‘upgrading from 6x’ section to make it shorter but 
>>> feel free to either fix/add things to this. I pushed the artifacts last 
>>> night so there are still about 8 hours to the 24 hours period. 
>>> 
>>> I’ll use the 8 hours to fix the website etc. and announce once all of this 
>>> is wrapped up!
>>> 
>>> -Anshum
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>>> On Aug 28, 2017, at 10:46 PM, Varun Thacker <[email protected] 
>>>> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>> I don't think holding up the release process infinitely till we stabilize 
>>>> all the tests is an option. On the other hand getting an RC to build is 
>>>> pretty difficult ( I am facing the same problem with 6.6.1 ) and I am sure 
>>>> people will run into this while voting for the release?
>>>> 
>>>> We could identify the top 2/3 tests which fail regularly while building 
>>>> the RC and either disable them or see if someone volunteers to fix them ?
>>>> 
>>>> On Tue, Aug 29, 2017 at 2:53 AM, Ishan Chattopadhyaya 
>>>> <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
>>>> > Those flaky Solr tests are annoying since people will also run into 
>>>> > failures when
>>>> > checking the RC? Should we disable these tests on the 7.0 branch so that 
>>>> > building
>>>> > and verifying this RC isn't annoying to everybody working on this 
>>>> > release?
>>>> 
>>>> +1. If it is hampering the release process, I think we should either not 
>>>> release without fixing them, or disable them for release (building, 
>>>> verifying).
>>>> 
>>>> On Mon, Aug 28, 2017 at 11:47 PM, Anshum Gupta <[email protected] 
>>>> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
>>>> Though those failing tests are annoying, I would not recommend ignoring 
>>>> those tests. We can manually ignore those test failures when we are 
>>>> testing stuff out though.
>>>> 
>>>> -Anshum
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>>> On Aug 28, 2017, at 11:10 AM, Adrien Grand <[email protected] 
>>>>> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
>>>>> 
>>>>> Those flaky Solr tests are annoying since people will also run into 
>>>>> failures when checking the RC? Should we disable these tests on the 7.0 
>>>>> branch so that building and verifying this RC isn't annoying to everybody 
>>>>> working on this release?
>>>>> 
>>>>> Le lun. 28 août 2017 à 19:23, Anshum Gupta <[email protected] 
>>>>> <mailto:[email protected]>> a écrit :
>>>>> Thanks Adrien! It worked with a fresh clone, at least ant check-licenses 
>>>>> worked, so I’m assuming the RC creation would work too.
>>>>> I’m running that, and it might take a couple of hours for me to create 
>>>>> one, as a few SolrCloud tests are still a little flakey and they fail 
>>>>> occasionally.
>>>>> 
>>>>> -Anshum
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>>> On Aug 28, 2017, at 10:13 AM, Anshum Gupta <[email protected] 
>>>>>> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Adrien,
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Yes, ant check-licenses fails with the same error, and so does ant 
>>>>>> validate (from the root dir). This is after running ant clean -f.
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> BUILD FAILED
>>>>>> /Users/anshum/workspace/lucene-solr/build.xml:117: The following error 
>>>>>> occurred while executing this line:
>>>>>> /Users/anshum/workspace/lucene-solr/lucene/build.xml:90: The following 
>>>>>> error occurred while executing this line:
>>>>>> /Users/anshum/workspace/lucene-solr/lucene/tools/custom-tasks.xml:62: 
>>>>>> JAR resource does not exist: analysis/icu/lib/icu4j-56.1.jar
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> I didn’t realize that the dependency was upgraded, and what confuses me 
>>>>>> is that the file actually exists.
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> anshum$ ls analysis/icu/lib/icu4j-5
>>>>>> icu4j-56.1.jar  icu4j-59.1.jar
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> It seems like it’s something that git clean, ant clean clean-jars etc. 
>>>>>> didn’t fix. This is really surprising but I’ll try and checking out 
>>>>>> again and creating and RC (after checking for the dependencies).
>>>>>> I think ant should be responsible for cleaning this up, and not git so 
>>>>>> there’s something off there.
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> -Anshum
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> On Aug 28, 2017, at 8:51 AM, Adrien Grand <[email protected] 
>>>>>>> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> You mentioned you tried to run the script multiple times. Have you run 
>>>>>>> git clean at some point? Maybe this is due to a stale working copy?
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> Le lun. 28 août 2017 à 08:53, Adrien Grand <[email protected] 
>>>>>>> <mailto:[email protected]>> a écrit :
>>>>>>> Hi Anshum,
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> Does running ant check-licenses from the Lucene directory fail as well? 
>>>>>>> The error message that you are getting looks weird to me since Lucene 
>>>>>>> 7.0 depends on ICU 59.1, not 56.1 since 
>>>>>>> https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LUCENE-7540 
>>>>>>> <https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LUCENE-7540>.
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> Le ven. 25 août 2017 à 23:42, Anshum Gupta <[email protected] 
>>>>>>> <mailto:[email protected]>> a écrit :
>>>>>>> A quick question, in case someone has an idea around what’s going on. 
>>>>>>> When I run the following command:
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> python3 -u dev-tools/scripts/buildAndPushRelease.py --push-local 
>>>>>>> /Users/anshum/solr/release/7.0.0/rc0 --rc-num 1 --sign <my-key>
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> I end up with the following error:
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> BUILD FAILED
>>>>>>> /Users/anshum/workspace/lucene-solr/build.xml:117: The following error 
>>>>>>> occurred while executing this line:
>>>>>>> /Users/anshum/workspace/lucene-solr/lucene/build.xml:90: The following 
>>>>>>> error occurred while executing this line:
>>>>>>> /Users/anshum/workspace/lucene-solr/lucene/tools/custom-tasks.xml:62: 
>>>>>>> JAR resource does not exist: analysis/icu/lib/icu4j-56.1.jar
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> Any idea as to what’s going on? This generally fails after the tests 
>>>>>>> have run, and the script has processed for about 45 minutes and it’s 
>>>>>>> consistent i.e. all the times when the tests pass, the process fails 
>>>>>>> with this warning.
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> I can also confirm that this file exists at 
>>>>>>> lucene/analysis/icy/lib/icu4j-56.1.jar .
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> Has anyone else seen this when working on the release?
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> -Anshum
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> On Aug 23, 2017, at 4:21 AM, Andrzej Białecki 
>>>>>>>> <[email protected] 
>>>>>>>> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>> On 23 Aug 2017, at 13:06, Uwe Schindler <[email protected] 
>>>>>>>>> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>> Keep in mind that there is also branch_7_0.
>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> Right, but the changes related to these issues were committed to 
>>>>>>>> master before branch_7_0 was created, and these specific issues are 
>>>>>>>> only about back-porting to 6x.
>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>> Uww
>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>> Am 23. August 2017 12:26:42 MESZ schrieb "Andrzej Białecki" 
>>>>>>>>> <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>>:
>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>>> On 23 Aug 2017, at 08:15, Anshum Gupta <[email protected] 
>>>>>>>>>> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
>>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>>> I also found more issues when comparing 7x, with 6x this time. I’ll 
>>>>>>>>>> take a look at wether it’s just the CHANGES entries or have these 
>>>>>>>>>> actually missed the branch. I assume it’s just the CHANGES, but want 
>>>>>>>>>> to be sure. If the committers involved can pitch in, I’d appreciate, 
>>>>>>>>>> else I’ll work on this for a bit right now and continue with this 
>>>>>>>>>> tomorrow morning.
>>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>>> - SOLR-10477 (Ab)
>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>> This is a partial back-port of relevant improvements from master to 
>>>>>>>>> 6x, so there are no strictly corresponding commits on 7x/master.
>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>>> - SOLR-10631: Metric reporters leak on 6x. (Ab)
>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>> This one has been fixed as part of other related issues in branches 
>>>>>>>>> 7.x / master, so it only required a specific fix for 6x.
>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>>> - SOLR-10000 (Ab)
>>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>> This has been committed first to 7x, then to 6x and it’s present in 
>>>>>>>>> branch_6_6.
>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>> ---
>>>>>>>>> Best regards,
>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>> Andrzej Bialecki
>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>> --
>>>>>>>>> Uwe Schindler
>>>>>>>>> Achterdiek 19, 28357 Bremen 
>>>>>>>>> <https://maps.google.com/?q=Achterdiek+19,+28357+Bremen&entry=gmail&source=g>
>>>>>>>>> https://www.thetaphi.de <https://www.thetaphi.de/>
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>> 
>> 
>> -- 
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