On a different note, I realized 2 days back that the solr:latest on
docker hub points to 7.7.1. What do we need to do to get 8.0 docker
image on docker hub?

On Tue, Apr 30, 2019 at 6:57 PM Cassandra Targett <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> I have a number of changes in a local branch for the 8.0 Ref Guide page 
> “Major Changes in Solr 8” about HTTP/2 which might help. I hadn’t intended to 
> push my branch, but I could if it helps. I also have a bunch of unfinished 
> content I started about nested documents, but tearing apart the CHANGES.txt 
> to figure out what is new and how that impacts upgrades is incredibly painful 
> and time-consuming, and I don’t have a ton of time these days. This is why 
> the 8.0 Ref Guide isn’t out yet.
>
> Tangentially, I feel like we need to work something else out about Wiki 
> release notes (and, remember, wiki.apache.org is going away really soon now) 
> and the Ref Guide. It’s odd to me that one person decides how to present 
> what’s new in the Wiki release notes, and someone else decides how to present 
> a whole other set of content about the same set of features for the Ref 
> Guide. Usually I skip the what’s new part for the minor releases, but for 
> major ones, there needs to be a comprehensive “here’s what’s new and what’s 
> changed” - we’ve done it for 5->6 and 6->7, it’s part of the major version 
> process now.
>
> Anyway, let me know if you want to see what I have so far, and I’ll try to 
> find some time to push it or make a patch.
> On Apr 30, 2019, 8:00 AM -0500, David Smiley <[email protected]>, 
> wrote:
>
> Hi Dat,
>
> I plan to update Solr's release notes for 8.0 retroactively.   
> https://wiki.apache.org/solr/ReleaseNote80 has more info on nested docs; I 
> wrote this well over a month ago.  Can you please enhance the part on HTTP2 
> to be more informative?  For example... what *benefit* does HTTP2 bring to 
> internode communication?  I know you benchmarked things.  Maybe mention the 
> road to full HTTP2 continues into 8.x?
>
> I'm sending this to the dev list so really anyone else can help like list 
> other major features... though I think maybe it's just these two.
>
> ~ David Smiley
> Apache Lucene/Solr Search Developer
> http://www.linkedin.com/in/davidwsmiley
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ---------
> From: David Smiley <[email protected]>
> Date: Thu, Mar 14, 2019 at 9:34 AM
> Subject: Re: Lucene/Solr 8.0
> To: Solr/Lucene Dev <[email protected]>
>
>
> The Solr highlights section of the announcement is severely incomplete as to 
> appear embarrassing.
> In the absence of time/effort to fix it should have simply been omitted; the 
> CHANGES.txt has details.
> That would not have been embarrassing.
> Maybe next time we could have a call to action about the release highlights 
> that coincides with the creation of the release branch;
> that is a juncture in which the features are frozen and there's plenty of 
> time to update.
> Last night I saw the call to action but it was woefully too late for me to 
> help.
>
> ~ David Smiley
> Apache Lucene/Solr Search Developer
> http://www.linkedin.com/in/davidwsmiley
>
>
> On Wed, Mar 13, 2019 at 10:02 AM Adrien Grand <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>> I organized existing items of the Lucene release notes into sections
>> and added a new item about FeatureField,
>> LongPoint#newDistanceFeatureQuery and
>> LatLonPoint#newDistanceFeatureQuery.
>>
>> On Tue, Mar 12, 2019 at 5:54 PM Alan Woodward <[email protected]> wrote:
>> >
>> > Jim and I have created wiki pages for the 8.0 release highlights here:
>> > https://wiki.apache.org/solr/ReleaseNote80
>> > https://wiki.apache.org/lucene-java/ReleaseNote80
>> >
>> > Feel free to edit and improve them - the Solr one in particular could do 
>> > with some beefing up.
>> >
>> >
>> > On 20 Feb 2019, at 11:37, Noble Paul <[email protected]> wrote:
>> >
>> > I'm committing them,
>> > Thanks Ishan
>> >
>> > On Wed, Feb 20, 2019 at 8:38 PM Alan Woodward <[email protected]> wrote:
>> >
>> >
>> > Awesome, thank you Ishan!
>> >
>> > On 20 Feb 2019, at 09:15, Ishan Chattopadhyaya <[email protected]> 
>> > wrote:
>> >
>> > Would anyone like to volunteer to be release manager for 7.7.1?
>> >
>> > I can volunteer for 7.7.1. I'll start as soon as both these issues are 
>> > committed.
>> >
>> > On Tue, Feb 19, 2019 at 9:18 PM Alan Woodward <[email protected]> wrote:
>> >
>> >
>> > We have two Solr issues that are serious enough to warrant a 7.7.1 
>> > release: SOLR-13248 and SOLR-13255.  Given our backwards-compatibility 
>> > guarantees, we should do this release before we restart the 8.0.0 process.
>> >
>> > Would anyone like to volunteer to be release manager for 7.7.1?  Ideally 
>> > we would get this done quickly so that I can continue releasing 8.0.0.
>> >
>> > On 14 Feb 2019, at 20:37, Mikhail Khludnev <[email protected]> wrote:
>> >
>> > On Thu, Feb 14, 2019 at 10:08 PM Mikhail Khludnev <[email protected]> wrote:
>> >
>> >
>> > Thank you, Alan. Give me an hour.
>> >
>> > чт, 14 февр. 2019 г., 20:59 Alan Woodward [email protected]:
>> >
>> >
>> > OK, let’s do an RC2.  When do you think you can have a fix in?
>> >
>> > Mikhail, will you be able to get your fix in soon as well?
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > Nope. Don't wait for SOLR-13126, it turns to be more complicated.
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > On 14 Feb 2019, at 14:34, Shalin Shekhar Mangar <[email protected]> 
>> > wrote:
>> >
>> > Hi Alan,
>> >
>> > There is a work-around which is to change the default to using legacy 
>> > assignment using cluster properties. But I don't like the idea of 
>> > releasing something that we know is broken and asking everyone to set a 
>> > cluster property to workaround it. I'd rather just rollback the commits 
>> > that caused the problem and then release 8.0
>> >
>> > On Thu, Feb 14, 2019 at 7:11 PM Alan Woodward <[email protected]> wrote:
>> >
>> >
>> > Hi Shalin,
>> >
>> > I'm not familiar with this bit of code - is there a workaround available?  
>> > ie a way of using a different replica placement strategy when creating a 
>> > collection?  If there is, I'd be tempted to continue with the vote as is 
>> > and then do an immediate 8.0.1 release once you have things fixed, 
>> > particularly if we’re going to require a 7.7.1 as well.
>> >
>> > On 14 Feb 2019, at 12:45, Shalin Shekhar Mangar <[email protected]> 
>> > wrote:
>> >
>> > Hi Alan,
>> >
>> > I opened SOLR-13248 a few minutes ago. It is a bad bug that should be a 
>> > blocker for 8.0 and might require a bug fix 7.7.1 release as well. In the 
>> > interest of time, I propose rolling back SOLR-12739 which caused these 
>> > issues. We can re-introduce it with proper fixes for the related issues in 
>> > 8.1.
>> >
>> > On Thu, Feb 14, 2019 at 3:45 PM Alan Woodward <[email protected]> wrote:
>> >
>> >
>> > The release candidate has already been built and voting is in progress, so 
>> > it’s missed the boat unless there’s a respin.  It does look like a nasty 
>> > bug though, so if you have a fix then feel free too commit it to the 8_0 
>> > branch in case we do an 8.0.1 release.
>> >
>> > On 14 Feb 2019, at 09:35, Mikhail Khludnev <[email protected]> wrote:
>> >
>> > Does https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SOLR-13126 fit for 8_0 ?
>> >
>> > On Thu, Feb 14, 2019 at 11:00 AM Alan Woodward <[email protected]> 
>> > wrote:
>> >
>> >
>> > I have no problem with bug-fixes and ref-guide changes on the 8_0 branch.
>> >
>> > On 13 Feb 2019, at 22:25, Cassandra Targett <[email protected]> wrote:
>> >
>> > I’ll let Alan reply definitively, but IMO if branch_8_0 is closed even to 
>> > Ref Guide-only commits, we’re not going to have an 8.0 Ref Guide at all 
>> > since there’s a lot of editing yet to be done for it.
>> >
>> > Cassandra
>> > On Feb 13, 2019, 4:20 PM -0600, David Smiley <[email protected]>, 
>> > wrote:
>> >
>> > I've been shepherding https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SOLR-13129 
>> > which only touches the Solr Ref Guide.  Could the Ref Guide for 8.0 
>> > include this even if it's committed after the 8.0 for the code?  I could 
>> > avoid touching CHANGES.txt if that helps (it'd be of dubious value to 
>> > users browsing the change list any way).
>> >
>> > On Wed, Feb 13, 2019 at 11:43 AM Alan Woodward <[email protected]> 
>> > wrote:
>> >
>> >
>> > Thanks for letting me know Jason.  Your commit will have missed the cut, 
>> > yes, but I don’t think it matters that much.  It will get picked up in a 
>> > respin or in any subsequent bug-fix release, and if RC1 passes the vote 
>> > then we can just alter CHANGES.txt
>> >
>> >
>> > On 13 Feb 2019, at 16:27, Jason Gerlowski <[email protected]> wrote:
>> >
>> > Hey Alan,
>> >
>> > I just committed a minor inconsequential bugfix
>> > (1b6c8fa95ba8c5b0646f599132c8ffd20c697e72) to branch_8_0.  I didn't
>> > realize I was cutting it so close to your work on cutting RC1, but
>> > from commits I see you made this morning preparing for the RC I
>> > suspect I cut things _very_ close and just missed it.
>> >
>> > Hopefully my ill-timed commit to branch_8_0 doesn't create any
>> > problems for you on the release end.  I'm happy to do whatever's
>> > easiest for you regarding that commit.  It'd be nice to have it
>> > included in 8.0, but it's not imperative by any means if I've already
>> > missed the first RC, or it's easier for you to omit from potential
>> > subsequent RCs.  Let me know if there's anything you'd like me to do
>> > (revert it, etc.).  At a minimum if it doesn't make 8.0 I'll need to
>> > go back and update CHANGES.txt I think.
>> >
>> > Sorry again for the potential complication.  I hate to be "that guy".
>> > Thanks for stepping up and handling the release.
>> >
>> > Best,
>> >
>> > Jason
>> >
>> > On Wed, Feb 13, 2019 at 4:52 AM jim ferenczi <[email protected]> 
>> > wrote:
>> >
>> >
>> > Thanks for fixing Cassandra and sorry for the noise. I did this too many 
>> > times in the past so I just mechanically changed the redirect without 
>> > thinking of when or if the ref guide was also released.
>> > I'll be more careful next time ;).
>> >
>> > On another note, now that 7.7 is out and that we're preparing the release 
>> > for 8.0 what do you think of removing/nuking the 7x branch. This was 
>> > already discussed some time ago 
>> > https://markmail.org/message/xl7vypkylhmeefhh but I don't think that we 
>> > reached a consensus and we have maybe new options with the move to gitbox. 
>> > One option discussed in the thread was to remove all files and add a 
>> > README that says that this branch is dead. I don't know if it's possible 
>> > but we could also make the branch protected in gitbox in order to avoid 
>> > new commits. What do you think ? Should we keep this branch and just 
>> > consider new commits as useless or should we try to "clean up" all Nx 
>> > branches that are not active anymore (5x, 6x, 7x) ?
>> >
>> > Jim
>> >
>> > Le mar. 12 févr. 2019 à 20:25, Cassandra Targett <[email protected]> a 
>> > écrit :
>> >
>> >
>> > I’d like to remind RMs that when finishing up a release, we can’t just do 
>> > a blanket find/replace in .htaccess to update the version. If we’re not 
>> > going to coordinate binary releases with Ref Guide releases, we need to be 
>> > careful not to change the redirects unless that version’s Ref Guide 
>> > release is also imminent.
>> >
>> > This is noted in the ReleaseToDo 
>> > (https://wiki.apache.org/lucene-java/ReleaseTodo#Update_redirect_to_latest_Javadoc),
>> >  but I’ve seen it occur a little too soon for the past few releases…in 
>> > those cases, the Ref Guide release was pretty close so it didn’t matter 
>> > that much.
>> >
>> > In this case, though, I haven’t had time to do a 7.7 Ref Guide so it 
>> > doesn’t exist yet (if it will ever be, I’m pretty swamped so someone else 
>> > needs to maybe take care of it), but all non-version specific Ref Guide 
>> > link is now being routed to a non-existent 7.7 path. It’s easy to fix, but 
>> > we have an easy way to avoid routing people to dead links.
>> >
>> > Cassandra
>> > On Feb 8, 2019, 3:58 AM -0600, Alan Woodward <[email protected]>, wrote:
>> >
>> > Once 7.7 is out the door, we should get on with releasing 8.0.  I 
>> > volunteer to be the manager for this round.  My current plan is to build a 
>> > release candidate early next week, as soon as the 7.7 release has been 
>> > announced.
>> >
>> > On 8 Feb 2019, at 09:07, Alan Woodward <[email protected]> wrote:
>> >
>> > It is a shame, I agree, but some of this stuff has been deprecated since 
>> > 3.6, so another release cycle won’t hurt :). We should prioritise cleaning 
>> > this stuff up once 8.0 is out of the door though.
>> >
>> > On 8 Feb 2019, at 07:27, David Smiley <[email protected]> wrote:
>> >
>> > Okay.  I suppose the issue is that it's simply too late in the 8.0 cycle 
>> > to remove things that have been deprecated in previous releases?  
>> > solr.LatLonType is one example.  It's a shame to keep around such things 
>> > further.
>> >
>> > On Thu, Feb 7, 2019 at 1:03 AM Alan Woodward <[email protected]> wrote:
>> >
>> >
>> > Not quite - the plan is to remove things entirely in 9.0, but we may need 
>> > to back port some extra deprecations to 8x.  We don’t necessarily need 
>> > them in 8.0 though - we can deprecate in 8.1 and remove in 9 without any 
>> > problems.  I opened the issues to ensure that we didn’t keep carrying 
>> > deprecated code through any further releases.
>> >
>> >
>> > On 7 Feb 2019, at 06:43, David Smiley <[email protected]> wrote:
>> >
>> > I want to ensure people are aware of two issues "Remove deprecated code in 
>> > master" that Alan filed:
>> >
>> > https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SOLR-13138
>> > https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LUCENE-8638
>> > There's a "master-deprecations" branch as well.
>> >
>> > Although both issues are marked "master (9.0)", I think the intent is 
>> > actually 8.0 so that we are finally rid of the deprecated code?
>> >
>> > ~ David
>> >
>> > On Sat, Feb 2, 2019 at 7:25 AM Kevin Risden <[email protected]> wrote:
>> >
>> >
>> > SOLR-9515 - Hadoop 3 upgrade has been merged to master, 8x, and 8.0.
>> > I'm keeping any eye on the builds this weekend but all indications are
>> > no issues so far.
>> >
>> > Kevin Risden
>> >
>> > On Fri, Feb 1, 2019 at 2:46 AM Adrien Grand <[email protected]> wrote:
>> >
>> >
>> > Nick, this change seems to be causing test failures. Can you have a look?
>> >
>> > See eg. 
>> > https://builds.apache.org/job/Lucene-Solr-SmokeRelease-8.x/15/console.
>> >
>> > On Fri, Feb 1, 2019 at 12:27 AM Nicholas Knize <[email protected]> wrote:
>> >
>> >
>> > Thank you Jim. LUCENE-8669 has been merged.
>> >
>> > - Nick
>> >
>> > On Wed, Jan 30, 2019 at 1:36 PM jim ferenczi <[email protected]> 
>> > wrote:
>> >
>> >
>> > Sure Nick, I am not aware of other blockers for 7.7 so I'll start the 
>> > first RC when your patch is merged.
>> > Kevin, this looks like a big change so I am not sure if it's a good idea 
>> > to rush this in for 8.0. Would it be safer to target another version in 
>> > order to take some time to ensure that it's not breaking anything ? I 
>> > guess that your concern is that a change like this should happen in a 
>> > major version but I wonder if it's worth the risk. I don't know this part 
>> > of the code and the implications of such a change so I let you decide what 
>> > we should do here but let's not delay the release if we realize that this 
>> > change requires more than a few days to be merged.
>> >
>> > Le mer. 30 janv. 2019 à 20:25, Nicholas Knize <[email protected]> a écrit :
>> >
>> >
>> > Hey Jim,
>> >
>> > I just added https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LUCENE-8669 along with 
>> > a pretty straightforward patch. This is a critical one that I think needs 
>> > to be in for 7.7 and 8.0. Can I set this as a blocker?
>> >
>> > On Wed, Jan 30, 2019 at 1:07 PM
>> >
>> > Kevin Risden <[email protected]> wrote:
>> >
>> >
>> > Jim,
>> >
>> > Since 7.7 needs to be released before 8.0 does that leave time to get
>> > SOLR-9515 - Hadoop 3 upgrade into 8.0? I have a PR updated and it is
>> > currently under review.
>> >
>> > Should I set the SOLR-9515 as a blocker for 8.0? I'm curious if others
>> > feel this should make it into 8.0 or not.
>> >
>> > Kevin Risden
>> >
>> > On Tue, Jan 29, 2019 at 11:15 AM jim ferenczi <[email protected]> 
>> > wrote:
>> >
>> >
>> > I had to revert the version bump for 8.0 (8.1) on branch_8x because we 
>> > don't handle two concurrent releases in our tests 
>> > (https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LUCENE-8665).
>> > Since we want to release 7.7 first I created the Jenkins job for this 
>> > version only and will build the first candidate for this version later 
>> > this week if there are no objection.
>> > I'll restore the version bump for 8.0 when 7.7 is out.
>> >
>> >
>> > Le mar. 29 janv. 2019 à 14:43, jim ferenczi <[email protected]> a 
>> > écrit :
>> >
>> >
>> > Hi,
>> > Hearing no objection I created the branches for 8.0 and 7.7. I'll now 
>> > create the Jenkins tasks for these versions, Uwe can you also add them to 
>> > the Policeman's Jenkins job ?
>> > This also means that the feature freeze phase has started for both 
>> > versions (7.7 and 8.0):
>> >
>> > No new features may be committed to the branch.
>> > Documentation patches, build patches and serious bug fixes may be 
>> > committed to the branch. However, you should submit all patches you want 
>> > to commit to Jira first to give others the chance to review and possibly 
>> > vote against the patch. Keep in mind that it is our main intention to keep 
>> > the branch as stable as possible.
>> > All patches that are intended for the branch should first be committed to 
>> > the unstable branch, merged into the stable branch, and then into the 
>> > current release branch.
>> > Normal unstable and stable branch development may continue as usual. 
>> > However, if you plan to commit a big change to the unstable branch while 
>> > the branch feature freeze is in effect, think twice: can't the addition 
>> > wait a couple more days? Merges of bug fixes into the branch may become 
>> > more difficult.
>> > Only Jira issues with Fix version "X.Y" and priority "Blocker" will delay 
>> > a release candidate build.
>> >
>> >
>> > Thanks,
>> > Jim
>> >
>> >
>> > Le lun. 28 janv. 2019 à 13:54, Tommaso Teofili <[email protected]> 
>> > a écrit :
>> >
>> >
>> > sure, thanks Jim!
>> >
>> > Tommaso
>> >
>> > Il giorno lun 28 gen 2019 alle ore 10:35 jim ferenczi
>> > <[email protected]> ha scritto:
>> >
>> >
>> > Go ahead Tommaso the branch is not created yet.
>> > The plan is to create the branches (7.7 and 8.0)  tomorrow or wednesday 
>> > and to announce the feature freeze the same day.
>> > For blocker issues that are still open this leaves another week to work on 
>> > a patch and we can update the status at the end of the week in order to 
>> > decide if we can start the first build candidate
>> > early next week. Would that work for you ?
>> >
>> > Le lun. 28 janv. 2019 à 10:19, Tommaso Teofili <[email protected]> 
>> > a écrit :
>> >
>> >
>> > I'd like to backport https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LUCENE-8659
>> > (upgrade to OpenNLP 1.9.1) to 8x branch, if there's still time.
>> >
>> > Regards,
>> > Tommaso
>> >
>> > Il giorno lun 28 gen 2019 alle ore 07:59 Adrien Grand
>> > <[email protected]> ha scritto:
>> >
>> >
>> > Hi Noble,
>> >
>> > No it hasn't created yet.
>> >
>> > On Mon, Jan 28, 2019 at 3:55 AM Noble Paul <[email protected]> wrote:
>> >
>> >
>> > Is the branch already cut for 8.0? which is it?
>> >
>> > On Mon, Jan 28, 2019 at 4:03 AM David Smiley <[email protected]> 
>> > wrote:
>> >
>> >
>> > I finally have a patch up for 
>> > https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SOLR-12768 (already marked as 8.0 
>> > blocker) that I feel pretty good about.  This provides a key part of the 
>> > nested document support.
>> > I will work on some documentation for it this week -- SOLR-13129
>> >
>> > On Fri, Jan 25, 2019 at 3:07 PM Jan Høydahl <[email protected]> wrote:
>> >
>> >
>> > I don't think it is critical for this to be a blocker for 8.0. If it gets 
>> > fixed in 8.0.1 that's ok too, given this is an ooold bug.
>> > I think we should simply remove the buffering feature in the UI and 
>> > replace it with an error message popup or something.
>> > I'll try to take a look next week.
>> >
>> > --
>> > Jan Høydahl, search solution architect
>> > Cominvent AS - www.cominvent.com
>> >
>> > 25. jan. 2019 kl. 20:39 skrev Tomás Fernández Löbbe 
>> > <[email protected]>:
>> >
>> > I think the UI is an important Solr feature. As long as there is a 
>> > reasonable time horizon for the issue being resolved I'm +1 on making it a 
>> > blocker. I'm not familiar enough with the UI code to help either 
>> > unfortunately.
>> >
>> > On Fri, Jan 25, 2019 at 11:24 AM Gus Heck <[email protected]> wrote:
>> >
>> >
>> > It looks like someone tried to make it a blocker once before... And it's 
>> > actually a duplicate of an earlier issue 
>> > (https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SOLR-9818). I guess its a question 
>> > of whether or not overall quality has a bearing on the decision to 
>> > release. As it turns out the screen shot I posted to the issue is less 
>> > than half of the shards that eventually got created since there was an 
>> > outstanding queue of requests still processing at the time. I'm now having 
>> > to delete 50 or so cores, which luckily are small 100 Mb initial testing 
>> > cores, not the 20GB cores we'll be testing on in the near future. It more 
>> > or less makes it impossible to recommend the use of the admin UI for 
>> > anything other than read only observation of the cluster. Now imagine 
>> > someone leaves a browser window open and forgets about it rather than 
>> > browsing away or closing the window, not knowing that it's silently 
>> > pumping out requests after showing an error... would completely hose a 
>> > node, and until they tracked down the source of the requests, (hope he 
>> > didn't go home) it would be impossible to resolve...
>> >
>> > On Fri, Jan 25, 2019 at 1:25 PM Adrien Grand <[email protected]> wrote:
>> >
>> >
>> > Releasing a new major is very challenging on its own, I'd rather not
>> > call it a blocker and delay the release for it since this isn't a new
>> > regression in 8.0: it looks like a problem that has affected Solr
>> > since at least 6.3? I'm not familiar with the UI code at all, but
>> > maybe this is something that could get fixed before we build a RC?
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > On Fri, Jan 25, 2019 at 6:06 PM Gus Heck <[email protected]> wrote:
>> >
>> >
>> > I'd like to suggest that https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SOLR-10211 
>> > be promoted to block 8.0. I just got burned by it a second time.
>> >
>> > On Thu, Jan 24, 2019 at 1:05 PM Uwe Schindler <[email protected]> wrote:
>> >
>> >
>> > Cool,
>> >
>> > I am working on giving my best release time guess as possible on the 
>> > FOSDEM conference!
>> >
>> > Uwe
>> >
>> > -----
>> > Uwe Schindler
>> > Achterdiek 19, D-28357 Bremen
>> > http://www.thetaphi.de
>> > eMail: [email protected]
>> >
>> > -----Original Message-----
>> > From: Adrien Grand <[email protected]>
>> > Sent: Thursday, January 24, 2019 5:33 PM
>> > To: Lucene Dev <[email protected]>
>> > Subject: Re: Lucene/Solr 8.0
>> >
>> > +1 to release 7.7 and 8.0 in a row starting on the week of February 4th.
>> >
>> > On Wed, Jan 23, 2019 at 4:23 PM jim ferenczi <[email protected]>
>> > wrote:
>> >
>> >
>> > Hi,
>> > As we agreed some time ago I'd like to start on releasing 8.0. The branch 
>> > is
>> >
>> > already created so we can start the process anytime now. Unless there are
>> > objections I'd like to start the feature freeze next week in order to 
>> > build the
>> > first candidate the week after.
>> >
>> > We'll also need a 7.7 release but I think we can handle both with Alan so
>> >
>> > the question now is whether we are ok to start the release process or if 
>> > there
>> > are any blockers left ;).
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > Le mar. 15 janv. 2019 à 11:35, Alan Woodward <[email protected]>
>> >
>> > a écrit :
>> >
>> >
>> > I’ve started to work through the various deprecations on the new master
>> >
>> > branch.  There are a lot of them, and I’m going to need some assistance for
>> > several of them, as it’s not entirely clear what to do.
>> >
>> >
>> > I’ll open two overarching issues in JIRA, one for lucene and one for Solr,
>> >
>> > with lists of the deprecations that need to be removed in each one.  I’ll 
>> > create
>> > a shared branch on gitbox to work against, and push the changes I’ve 
>> > already
>> > done there.  We can then create individual JIRA issues for any changes that
>> > are more involved than just deleting code.
>> >
>> >
>> > All assistance gratefully received, particularly for the Solr deprecations
>> >
>> > where there’s a lot of code I’m unfamiliar with.
>> >
>> >
>> > On 8 Jan 2019, at 09:21, Alan Woodward <[email protected]>
>> >
>> > wrote:
>> >
>> >
>> > I think the current plan is to do a 7.7 release at the same time as 8.0, to
>> >
>> > handle any last-minute deprecations etc.  So let’s keep those jobs enabled
>> > for now.
>> >
>> >
>> > On 8 Jan 2019, at 09:10, Uwe Schindler <[email protected]> wrote:
>> >
>> > Hi,
>> >
>> > I will start and add the branch_8x jobs to Jenkins once I have some time
>> >
>> > later today.
>> >
>> >
>> > The question: How to proceed with branch_7x? Should we stop using it
>> >
>> > and release 7.6.x only (so we would use branch_7_6 only for bugfixes), or
>> > are we planning to one more Lucene/Solr 7.7? In the latter case I would 
>> > keep
>> > the jenkins jobs enabled for a while.
>> >
>> >
>> > Uwe
>> >
>> > -----
>> > Uwe Schindler
>> > Achterdiek 19, D-28357 Bremen
>> > http://www.thetaphi.de
>> > eMail: [email protected]
>> >
>> > From: Alan Woodward <[email protected]>
>> > Sent: Monday, January 7, 2019 11:30 AM
>> > To: [email protected]
>> > Subject: Re: Lucene/Solr 8.0
>> >
>> > OK, Christmas caught up with me a bit… I’ve just created a branch for 8x
>> >
>> > from master, and am in the process of updating the master branch to version
>> > 9.  New commits that should be included in the 8.0 release should also be
>> > back-ported to branch_8x from master.
>> >
>> >
>> > This is not intended as a feature freeze, as I know there are still some
>> >
>> > things being worked on for 8.0; however, it should let us clean up master 
>> > by
>> > removing as much deprecated code as possible, and give us an idea of any
>> > replacement work that needs to be done.
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > On 19 Dec 2018, at 15:13, David Smiley <[email protected]>
>> >
>> > wrote:
>> >
>> >
>> > January.
>> >
>> > On Wed, Dec 19, 2018 at 2:04 AM S G <[email protected]>
>> >
>> > wrote:
>> >
>> >
>> > It would be nice to see Solr 8 in January soon as there is an enhancement
>> >
>> > on nested-documents we are waiting to get our hands on.
>> >
>> > Any idea when Solr 8 would be out ?
>> >
>> > Thx
>> > SG
>> >
>> > On Mon, Dec 17, 2018 at 1:34 PM David Smiley
>> >
>> > <[email protected]> wrote:
>> >
>> >
>> > I see 10 JIRA issues matching this filter:   project in (SOLR, LUCENE) AND
>> >
>> > priority = Blocker and status = open and fixVersion = "master (8.0)"
>> >
>> >  click here:
>> >
>> > https://issues.apache.org/jira/issues/?jql=project%20in%20(SOLR%2C%20LU
>> > CENE)%20AND%20priority%20%3D%20Blocker%20and%20status%20%3D%2
>> > 0open%20and%20fixVersion%20%3D%20%22master%20(8.0)%22%20
>> >
>> >
>> > Thru the end of the month, I intend to work on those issues not yet
>> >
>> > assigned.
>> >
>> >
>> > On Mon, Dec 17, 2018 at 4:51 AM Adrien Grand <[email protected]>
>> >
>> > wrote:
>> >
>> >
>> > +1
>> >
>> > On Mon, Dec 17, 2018 at 10:38 AM Alan Woodward
>> >
>> > <[email protected]> wrote:
>> >
>> >
>> > Hi all,
>> >
>> > Now that 7.6 is out of the door (thanks Nick!) we should think about
>> >
>> > cutting the 8.0 branch and moving master to 9.0.  I’ll volunteer to create 
>> > the
>> > branch this week - say Wednesday?  Then we should have some time to
>> > clean up the master branch and uncover anything that still needs to be done
>> > on 8.0 before we start the release process next year.
>> >
>> >
>> > On 22 Oct 2018, at 18:12, Cassandra Targett <[email protected]>
>> >
>> > wrote:
>> >
>> >
>> > I'm a bit delayed, but +1 on the 7.6 and 8.0 plan from me too.
>> >
>> > On Fri, Oct 19, 2018 at 7:18 AM Erick Erickson
>> >
>> > <[email protected]> wrote:
>> >
>> >
>> > +1, this gives us all a chance to prioritize getting the blockers out
>> > of the way in a careful manner.
>> > On Fri, Oct 19, 2018 at 7:56 AM jim ferenczi <[email protected]>
>> >
>> > wrote:
>> >
>> >
>> > +1 too. With this new perspective we could create the branch just
>> >
>> > after the 7.6 release and target the 8.0 release for January 2019 which 
>> > gives
>> > almost 3 month to finish the blockers ?
>> >
>> >
>> > Le jeu. 18 oct. 2018 à 23:56, David Smiley
>> >
>> > <[email protected]> a écrit :
>> >
>> >
>> > +1 to a 7.6 —lots of stuff in there
>> > On Thu, Oct 18, 2018 at 4:47 PM Nicholas Knize
>> >
>> > <[email protected]> wrote:
>> >
>> >
>> > If we're planning to postpone cutting an 8.0 branch until a few
>> >
>> > weeks from now then I'd like to propose (and volunteer to RM) a 7.6 release
>> > targeted for late November or early December (following the typical 2 month
>> > release pattern). It feels like this might give a little breathing room for
>> > finishing up 8.0 blockers? And looking at the change log there appear to 
>> > be a
>> > healthy list of features, bug fixes, and improvements to both Solr and 
>> > Lucene
>> > that warrant a 7.6 release? Personally I wouldn't mind releasing the
>> > LatLonShape encoding changes in LUCENE-8521 and selective indexing work
>> > done in LUCENE-8496. Any objections or thoughts?
>> >
>> >
>> > - Nick
>> >
>> >
>> > On Thu, Oct 18, 2018 at 5:32 AM Đạt Cao Mạnh
>> >
>> > <[email protected]> wrote:
>> >
>> >
>> > Thanks Cassandra and Jim,
>> >
>> > I created a blocker issue for Solr 8.0 SOLR-12883, currently in
>> >
>> > jira/http2 branch there are a draft-unmature implementation of SPNEGO
>> > authentication which enough to makes the test pass, this implementation 
>> > will
>> > be removed when SOLR-12883 gets resolved . Therefore I don't see any
>> > problem on merging jira/http2 to master branch in the next week.
>> >
>> >
>> > On Thu, Oct 18, 2018 at 2:33 AM jim ferenczi
>> >
>> > <[email protected]> wrote:
>> >
>> >
>> > But if you're working with a different assumption - that just the
>> >
>> > existence of the branch does not stop Dat from still merging his work and 
>> > the
>> > work being included in 8.0 - then I agree, waiting for him to merge doesn't
>> > need to stop the creation of the branch.
>> >
>> >
>> > Yes that's my reasoning. This issue is a blocker so we won't
>> >
>> > release without it but we can work on the branch in the meantime and let
>> > other people work on new features that are not targeted to 8.
>> >
>> >
>> > Le mer. 17 oct. 2018 à 20:51, Cassandra Targett
>> >
>> > <[email protected]> a écrit :
>> >
>> >
>> > OK - I was making an assumption that the timeline for the first
>> >
>> > 8.0 RC would be ASAP after the branch is created.
>> >
>> >
>> > It's a common perception that making a branch freezes adding
>> >
>> > new features to the release, perhaps in an unofficial way (more of a 
>> > courtesy
>> > rather than a rule). But if you're working with a different assumption - 
>> > that
>> > just the existence of the branch does not stop Dat from still merging his 
>> > work
>> > and the work being included in 8.0 - then I agree, waiting for him to merge
>> > doesn't need to stop the creation of the branch.
>> >
>> >
>> > If, however, once the branch is there people object to Dat
>> >
>> > merging his work because it's "too late", then the branch shouldn't be
>> > created yet because we want to really try to clear that blocker for 8.0.
>> >
>> >
>> > Cassandra
>> >
>> > On Wed, Oct 17, 2018 at 12:13 PM jim ferenczi
>> >
>> > <[email protected]> wrote:
>> >
>> >
>> > Ok thanks for answering.
>> >
>> > - I think Solr needs a couple more weeks since the work Dat
>> >
>> > is doing isn't quite done yet.
>> >
>> >
>> > We can wait a few more weeks to create the branch but I
>> >
>> > don't think that one action (creating the branch) prevents the other (the
>> > work Dat is doing).
>> >
>> > HTTP/2 is one of the blocker for the release but it can be done
>> >
>> > in master and backported to the appropriate branch as any other feature ?
>> > We just need an issue with the blocker label to ensure that
>> >
>> > we don't miss it ;). Creating the branch early would also help
>> >
>> > in case you don't want to release all the work at once in 8.0.0.
>> >
>> > Next week was just a proposal, what I meant was soon
>> >
>> > because we target a release in a few months.
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > Le mer. 17 oct. 2018 à 17:52, Cassandra Targett
>> >
>> > <[email protected]> a écrit :
>> >
>> >
>> > IMO next week is a bit too soon for the branch - I think Solr
>> >
>> > needs a couple more weeks since the work Dat is doing isn't quite done yet.
>> >
>> >
>> > Solr needs the HTTP/2 work Dat has been doing, and he told
>> >
>> > me yesterday he feels it is nearly ready to be merged into master. However,
>> > it does require a new release of Jetty to Solr is able to retain Kerberos
>> > authentication support (Dat has been working with that team to help test 
>> > the
>> > changes Jetty needs to support Kerberos with HTTP/2). They should get that
>> > release out soon, but we are dependent on them a little bit.
>> >
>> >
>> > He can hopefully reply with more details on his status and
>> >
>> > what else needs to be done.
>> >
>> >
>> > Once Dat merges his work, IMO we should leave it in master
>> >
>> > for a little bit. While he has been beasting and testing with Jenkins as 
>> > he goes
>> > along, I think it would be good to have all the regular master builds work 
>> > on
>> > it for a little bit also.
>> >
>> >
>> > Of the other blockers, the only other large-ish one is to fully
>> >
>> > remove Trie* fields, which some of us also discussed yesterday and it
>> > seemed we concluded that Solr isn't really ready to do that. The 
>> > performance
>> > issues with single value lookups are a major obstacle. It would be nice if
>> > someone with a bit more experience with that could comment in the issue
>> > (SOLR-12632) and/or unmark it as a blocker.
>> >
>> >
>> > Cassandra
>> >
>> > On Wed, Oct 17, 2018 at 8:38 AM Erick Erickson
>> >
>> > <[email protected]> wrote:
>> >
>> >
>> > I find 9 open blockers for 8.0:
>> >
>> >
>> > https://issues.apache.org/jira/issues/?jql=project%20%3D%20SOLR%20AND
>> > %20priority%20%3D%20Blocker%20AND%20status%20%3D%20OPEN
>> >
>> >
>> > As David mentioned, many of the SOlr committers are at
>> >
>> > Activate, which
>> >
>> > ends Thursday so feedback (and work) may be a bit
>> >
>> > delayed.
>> >
>> > On Wed, Oct 17, 2018 at 8:11 AM David Smiley
>> >
>> > <[email protected]> wrote:
>> >
>> >
>> > Hi,
>> >
>> > Thanks for volunteering to do the 8.0 release Jim!
>> >
>> > Many of us are at the Activate Conference in Montreal.
>> >
>> > We had a committers meeting where we discussed some of the blockers.  I
>> > think only a couple items were raised.  I'll leave Dat to discuss the one 
>> > on
>> > HTTP2.  On the Solr nested docs front, I articulated one and we mostly came
>> > to a decision on how to do it.  It's not "hard" just a matter of how to 
>> > hook in
>> > some functionality so that it's user-friendly.  I'll file an issue for 
>> > this.
>> > Inexplicably I'm sheepish about marking issues "blocker" but I shouldn't 
>> > be.
>> > I'll file that issue and look at another issue or two that ought to be 
>> > blockers.
>> > Nothing is "hard" or tons of work that is in my sphere of work.
>> >
>> >
>> > On the Lucene side, I will commit
>> >
>> > https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LUCENE-7875 RE MultiFields either
>> > late tonight or tomorrow when I have time.  It's ready to be committed; 
>> > just
>> > sitting there.  It's a minor thing but important to make this change now
>> > before 8.0.
>> >
>> >
>> > I personally plan to spend more time on the upcoming
>> >
>> > weeks on a few of these 8.0 things.
>> >
>> >
>> > ~ David
>> >
>> >
>> > On Wed, Oct 17, 2018 at 4:21 AM jim ferenczi
>> >
>> > <[email protected]> wrote:
>> >
>> >
>> > Hi,
>> > We still have two blockers for the Lucene 8 release:
>> > https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LUCENE-
>> >
>> > 7075?jql=(project%3D%22Lucene%20-
>> > %20Core%22%20%20OR%20project%3DSOLR)%20AND%20priority%3DBlocke
>> > r%20and%20resolution%20%3D%20Unresolved%20
>> >
>> > We're planning to work on these issues in the coming
>> >
>> > days, are there any other blockers (not in the list) on Solr side.
>> >
>> > Now that Lucene 7.5 is released I'd like to create a
>> >
>> > Lucene 8 branch soon (next week for instance ? ). There are some work to do
>> > to make sure that all tests pass, add the new version...
>> >
>> > I can take care of it if there are no objections. Creating
>> >
>> > the branch in advance would help to stabilize this version (people can
>> > continue to work on new features that are not targeted for 8.0) and
>> >
>> > we can discuss the best date for the release when all
>> >
>> > blockers are resolved. What do you think ?
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > Le mar. 18 sept. 2018 à 11:32, Adrien Grand
>> >
>> > <[email protected]> a écrit :
>> >
>> >
>> > Đạt, is https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SOLR-
>> >
>> > 12639 the right issue for HTTP/2 support? Should we make it a blocker for
>> > 8.0?
>> >
>> >
>> > Le lun. 3 sept. 2018 à 23:37, Adrien Grand
>> >
>> > <[email protected]> a écrit :
>> >
>> >
>> > For the record here is the JIRA query for blockers that
>> >
>> > Erick referred to: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SOLR-
>> > 12720?jql=(project%3D%22Lucene%20-
>> > %20Core%22%20%20OR%20project%3DSOLR)%20AND%20priority%3DBlocke
>> > r%20and%20resolution%20%3D%20Unresolved%20
>> >
>> >
>> > Le lun. 3 sept. 2018 à 10:36, jim ferenczi
>> >
>> > <[email protected]> a écrit :
>> >
>> >
>> > Ok thanks Đạt and Erick. I'll follow the blockers on
>> >
>> > Jira.  Đạt do you have an issue opened for the HTTP/2 support ?
>> >
>> >
>> > Le ven. 31 août 2018 à 16:40, Erick Erickson
>> >
>> > <[email protected]> a écrit :
>> >
>> >
>> > There's also the issue of what to do as far as
>> >
>> > removing Trie* support.
>> >
>> > I think there's a blocker JIRA.
>> >
>> > project = SOLR AND priority = Blocker AND
>> >
>> > resolution = Unresolved
>> >
>> >
>> > Shows 6 blockers
>> > On Fri, Aug 31, 2018 at 4:12 AM Đạt Cao Mạnh
>> >
>> > <[email protected]> wrote:
>> >
>> >
>> > Hi Jim,
>> >
>> > I really want to introduce the support of HTTP/2
>> >
>> > into Solr 8.0 (currently cooked in jira/http2 branch). The changes of that
>> > branch are less than Star Burst effort and closer to be merged into master
>> > branch.
>> >
>> >
>> > Thanks!
>> >
>> > On Fri, Aug 31, 2018 at 3:55 PM jim ferenczi
>> >
>> > <[email protected]> wrote:
>> >
>> >
>> > Hi all,
>> > I'd like to get some feedback regarding the
>> >
>> > upcoming Lucene/Solr 8 release. There are still some cleanups and docs to
>> > add on the Lucene side but it seems that all blockers are resolved.
>> >
>> > From a Solr perspective are there any important
>> >
>> > changes that need to be done or are we still good with the October target 
>> > for
>> > the release ? Adrien mentioned the Star Burst effort some time ago, is it
>> > something that is planned for 8 ?
>> >
>> >
>> > Cheers,
>> > Jim
>> >
>> > Le mer. 1 août 2018 à 19:02, David Smiley
>> >
>> > <[email protected]> a écrit :
>> >
>> >
>> > Yes, that new BKD/Points based code is
>> >
>> > definitely something we want in 8 or 7.5 -- it's a big deal.  I think it 
>> > would also
>> > be awesome if we had highlighter that could use the Weight.matches() API --
>> >
>> > &g
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > --
>> > Sincerely yours
>> > Mikhail Khludnev
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > --
>> > -----------------------------------------------------
>> > Noble Paul
>> >
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