I am proposing a virtual "Solr committer meeting" next week to discuss the concerns and ideas Mark Miller has raised recently. The scope of conversation of this one is not the other wonderful things people are working on (e.g. new plugins architecture), though I would *love* to have future virtual committer meetings that are open-ended to discuss all manner of things on our minds.
Why? (A) I felt the committer meeting at Activate this year was fantastically productive (B) I love opportunities to see/hear from my awesome virtual colleagues (C) Mark raised issues of grave concern to our community When exactly is this?: I'm using a "Doodle poll" to determine an optimal time slot. For the link to the poll, go to the ASF Slack, #solr-dev channel, and you will see it. You could also email me directly for it. For this virtual committer meeting and future ones: * This is in the spirit of committer meetings co-located with conferences. I recall that ASF policy says that no "decisions" can be made in such a venue. We make decisions on this dev list and indirectly via JIRA out in the open and with the opportunity for anyone to comment. * Who: Committer-only or by invitation * Video chat with option of audio dial-in. This time I will use Google Hangout. * Recorded for those invited only. I'll dispose of the recording a week after. The intention is for those who cannot be there due to a scheduling conflict to see/hear what was said. I have the ability to do this recording via Salesforce's G-Suite subscription. * Published notes: I (or someone) will take written meeting notes that are ultimately published for anyone to see (not restricted to those invited). They will be transmitted to the dev list. Thanks everyone. I hope we do more of these! And I hope non-committers don't feel slighted; the published notes is a great time to make your voice heard here! I'm open to suggestions. ~ David Smiley Apache Lucene/Solr Search Developer http://www.linkedin.com/in/davidwsmiley
