Agree, Noble. Let's not worry about the naming too much. We can discuss that later as well, or in a separate thread.
On Sun, 4 Oct, 2020, 10:06 am Noble Paul, <noble.p...@gmail.com> wrote: > +1 Ishan > > It's important that the branch gets some real world testing and > feedback. At this point we cannot be 100% sure about the stability of > that branch to port all the changes to master. > > Users don't care what is Solr 9/Solr 10 or even Mark's Solr or even a > "Crazy Solr". As long as all the tests pass and they can do an upgrade > of their existing cluster to that release,that IS Solr. I think we do > not need to worry too much about it now. If/when we reach a point > where we have a new stable release of Solr that is 100% compatible > with our other branch, we can resume this discussion. > > As Ilan said, we may get real feedback from our users deploying it on > production scale but non critical deployments. Our JUnit tests are not > good enough to uncover stability issues. > > Let's focus on making all the tests pass and get this to the hands of our > users. > > On Sun, Oct 4, 2020 at 8:01 AM Uwe Schindler <u...@thetaphi.de> wrote: > > > > Is the branch ready for Jenkins testing? > > > > If yes and "gradlew check" works, I really would like to set it up. > > > > Uwe > > > > Am October 3, 2020 7:42:22 PM UTC schrieb Ishan Chattopadhyaya < > ichattopadhy...@gmail.com>: > >> > >> Hi Devs, > >> > >> As you might be aware, the reference_impl branch has a lot of > improvements that we want to see in Solr master. However, it is currently a > large deviation from master and hence the stability and reliability (though > improved in certain aspects) remains to be tested in real production > environments before we gain confidence in bringing those changes to master. > >> > >> I propose that we do a one off preview release from that branch, say > Solr 10 alpha (early access) or any other name that someone suggests, so > that users could try it out and report regressions or improvements etc. > >> > >> I volunteer to be the RM and planning to start the process around 1 > December-15 December timeframe. Until then, we can tighten the loose ends > on the branch and plan for such a release. > >> > >> Is there any thoughts, concerns, questions? > >> > >> Regards, > >> Ishan > > > > > > -- > > Uwe Schindler > > Achterdiek 19, 28357 Bremen > > https://www.thetaphi.de > > > > -- > ----------------------------------------------------- > Noble Paul >
