+1 to “leave the door open” despite it seeming an awkward endeavor.
On Sat, Nov 20, 2021 at 1:15 PM Ishan Chattopadhyaya < ichattopadhy...@gmail.com> wrote: > Since there is no concrete design available for that as of today, that's > why I mentioned about "keeping the door open" for 8.12. I'm not proposing a > 8.12 today, nor am I saying 8.12 is needed. But, in case we need one, we > should have the ability to release it. Anyway, this discussion should > rather happen on the Solr list. > > On Sat, 20 Nov, 2021, 10:10 pm Timothy Potter, <thelabd...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> A Solr 8.12 with Lucene 8.11? Not sure of the details on that but >> sounds like a giant mess waiting to happen (at the very least, would >> require a bunch of complicated changes to the release process). We >> need to stop adding features to 8x and focus on 9. I can foresee an >> 8.11.2 with bug fixes only (8.11.1 is already planned to drop >> soon'ish). Why would Solr need an 8.12? I suspect it's related to >> upgrading plugins, but that's been an open issue for a long while and >> seems to keep getting pushed out. We can't just keep planning new >> feature releases because of this plugin upgrade problem. If we really >> need an 8.12, then we need to see a concrete design on how the upgrade >> process will work in an 8.12. Perhaps there's a better approach that >> only relies on code changes to the 9x line? Tough to say, we have no >> designs or descriptions of the upgrade problem at this point. >> >> As of today, I'd be strongly against a Solr 8.12 release. >> >> Tim >> >> On Sat, Nov 20, 2021 at 8:32 AM Ishan Chattopadhyaya >> <ichattopadhy...@gmail.com> wrote: >> > >> > I think we should keep the door open for a 8.12 release of Solr (based >> on 8.11 Lucene). This might mean some split in the codebase, and this can >> either happen in the lucene-solr repo or the solr repo (I'm okay with >> either). >> > >> > On Sat, Nov 20, 2021 at 7:59 PM Adrien Grand <jpou...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> >> >> Uwe brought up the question on a the vote thread: we are not going to >> do a 8.12 release, so what should we do of branch_8x? >> >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@lucene.apache.org >> For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@lucene.apache.org >> >> -- Sent from Gmail Mobile
