Thanks for doing this Mark! +1 on merging this in soon.
On Thu, Aug 15, 2019 at 2:24 PM Mark Miller <markrmil...@gmail.com> wrote: > https://issues.apache.org/jira/projects/SOLR/issues/SOLR-13452 Update the > lucene-solr build from Ivy+Ant+Maven (shadow build) to Gradle. > > Okay, we are at the point where either this thing lands soon and gains > some contributors to help finish or it overwhelms me and crashes & burns. > That almost sounds negative, but it was actually the plan so far and I'm > pretty excited after all this time invested. I need to punt this over to > the community though - the final implications and ramifications of moving > fully to gradle are just too big for me individually regardless of the time > frame. > > I've done about 95%+ of what I wanted to do before trying to land > something - a few more hoops to jump around. We pull in more deps than we > should right now, I'll deal with that shortly, and mvn publishing needs > work (mostly around solr-server, but dist and publishing both prob need > edge work at least). Those are the main things on my mind. There are > probably a ton of other little things, but I'm thinking those that are > important will rise up quickly and the rest can be handled over time. > > This will be a large change. Some things will still take time to get up to > par with what we have now. Many things will need to be sorted out (jenkins, > releases, smoke tester type things, docs, etc). > > I've also made all the decisions and trade-offs and what not. I'm pretty > happy about that, but I'm sure some will want to discuss and debate some > choices once things are in their face. I've spent a lot of time in my > recent life on this stuff and I'm ready to battle for some of it :) And to > be mistaken, ignorant, or convinced of other paths for some other parts of > it. I'll only say, every time I go from working with the gradle build back > to ant+ivy+mvn, it feels like a big backslide. > > I'm thinking maybe in September/October? And only on master, hopefully > living side by side with ant+ivy+mvn, but the goal would be for that period > to be brief. They can't live in complete harmony - someone has to own the > dependency view of the world for example, the one that actually gets > committed (license, checksums, etc). Otherwise, I've done my best to do > this in a way that doesn't break the current build. Will need to inspect > that closer before landing though. > > This is just another heads up. Once we are in a main branch, I'm hoping a > few of you will either have to jump in and help this land or we will have > to pull it back out I think. Be prepared :) > > -- > - Mark > > http://about.me/markrmiller > -- Anshum Gupta
