Does it make sense for Lucene committers to attend? On Sun, 17 Nov 2019 at 20:20, Erick Erickson <[email protected]> wrote:
> David: > > I may be able to attend, but perhaps only via keyboard. It depends on when > I get back from an appointment in time. If I don’t make it back in time, > here’s some grist for the mill. > > Can we add an item for the Gradle build effort? I’m curious what people > think about that effort and whether it’s worth pursuing and if so, > how/when. Should we make it a goal to make it the only build system for > 9.0? Try to backport for 8x? etc. So far, it’s not a big deal to keep the > Gradle branch current with master, there are _very_ few necessary code > changes, it’s almost all new code. Dawid noticed some issues where the > gradle_8 branch doesn’t match master, I’m not sure what’s going on with > that. > > If some variant of my straw-man proposal below is adopted, my vote would > be to make the Gradle build 9x only assuming we go forward with it. > > ************* > > My straw-man proposal: > > If we’re going to make many of the changes the agenda outlines, we’re > going to be tearing up a lot of code. And, I very much assume, going > through quite a period of (more) instability. So I expect making changes > unrelated to this effort on both master and 8x will become increasingly > difficult. Should we be prepared to “soft freeze" 8x and bend efforts to > releasing 9.0 at some point (TBD)? I don’t think of this is a “hard > freeze”, more like pretending we just made a 9.0 release and getting > increasingly selective about what we attempt to backport. > > And thanks for organizing this! > Erick > > > On Nov 17, 2019, at 9:13 AM, David Smiley <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > > The meeting will be held on Wednesday at 11am PST (2pm EST). I'll send > a calendar invite tomorrow to those that used the Doodle poll. > > The agenda is here: > https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/SOLR/2019-11+Meeting+on+SolrCloud+and+project+health > Edit it if you wish. If you can't (e.g. you are not a committer), then > maybe reply here to offer a suggestion. > > > > ~ David Smiley > > Apache Lucene/Solr Search Developer > > http://www.linkedin.com/in/davidwsmiley > > > > > > On Wed, Nov 13, 2019 at 1:56 PM David Smiley <[email protected]> > wrote: > > 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 > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] > For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] > > -- Regards, Atri Apache Concerted
