Ishan, Thank you for bringing this up. I’m comfortable delaying an extra week to accommodate the multitude of holidays (Holi, Passover, others) coming up.
I will adjust my schedule to start the vote Tuesday, Apr 6. Please make sure that all back ports are appropriately marked with fixVersion in Jira and have corresponding CHANGES entries. Mike On Fri, Mar 26, 2021 at 11:11 PM Ishan Chattopadhyaya < ichattopadhy...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi Mike, > > I wish to get https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SOLR-15288 in, but > will likely be able to wrap up by 2 April or so (on vacation right now due > to the festival of Holi) > > Regards, > Ishan > > On Sat, 27 Mar, 2021, 7:41 am Mike Drob, <md...@mdrob.com> wrote: > >> I am now preparing for a bugfix release from branch branch_8_8 >> >> I plan to have the RC built and vote started on Tuesday, Mar 30. If you >> have small, low risk bug fixes to backport before then, please do so using >> your best judgement. >> >> Please observe the normal rules for committing to this branch: >> >> * Before committing to the branch, reply to this thread and argue >> why the fix needs backporting and how long it will take. >> * All issues accepted for backporting should be marked with 8.8.2 >> in JIRA, and issues that should delay the release must be marked as >> Blocker >> * 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. >> * Only Jira issues with Fix version 8.8.2 and priority "Blocker" will >> delay >> a release candidate build. >> >> Thanks, >> Mike >> >
