Update: We have now merged the entire v4.8 working tree with the master branch of our repository (https://github.com/apache/lucene.net)
This means we are working full-steam ahead towards a v4.8 release. We still have many failing tests we need help with fixing them, and also some stuff we will need ported before we can do a release (highlighters, queries etc). I'm also working on setting up a CI pipeline for the project, and a lot of other important goodness. Again, any help appreciated. Please make sure you sign an ICLA with Apache before sending us a Pull Request. -- Itamar Syn-Hershko http://code972.com | @synhershko <https://twitter.com/synhershko> Freelance Developer & Consultant Microsoft ASP.NET / IIS MVP Author of RavenDB in Action <http://manning.com/synhershko/> On Fri, Aug 8, 2014 at 6:34 AM, Itamar Syn-Hershko <ita...@code972.com> wrote: > Hi all. > > I've been working on the 4.8 branch to try and stabilize it so it can be > the base for our next release. There's still plenty to do, but I was able > to make decent progress. > > This thread will be used for me to report progress and hopefully get some > more people involved. > > My branch is here: > https://github.com/synhershko/lucene.net/tree/Lucene.Net_4.8.0 > > Out of about 2300 tests currently, there are about 600 failing tests and > the rest are green. At least 300 of the failing tests are due to missing > codecs (some codecs haven't been ported yet). The rest of the failures can > be largely categorized as below. > > 1. The missing codecs need to be ported (into a separate assembly). There > isn't too much of code to port and work is pretty much self contained. > However completing this will make about 300 tests green. > The code to port is here: > https://github.com/apache/lucene-solr/tree/lucene_solr_4_8_0/lucene/codecs/src/java/org/apache/lucene/codecs > > 2. Compressed fields implementation is largely broken. Quite a few test > are red and I'm pretty sure the fix is quite simple, just a faulty > implementation to quickly re-write. > > 3. Many, many tests are very slow or even deadlocking because of threading > issues. Culprits are both IndexWriter and FSDirectory. This is the most > severe and probably challenging issue to solve. > There are multiple failures which I believe relate to this issue. "Access > to the path is denied." on index files, failing Asserts etc. > > 4. The fsync implementation (in FSDirectory) needs some love and testing. > > 5. The rest of the failing tests are probably isolated porting issues > (Java / C# differences or bugs introduced while porting). I attached a > screenshot of one such error, thrown using Debug.Assert from the core while > running some of the tests. > > Other items to tackle later: > > 1. CLS compliance. Maybe the biggest item there is the byte/sbyte thing we > discussed several times before. > > 2. Porting the contribs. > > 3. Cleaning up the API and XML comments > > 4. Fixing the license header in all source files > > 5. CI pipeline and SlowTest attribute to have some tests run only on > nightly builds or similar > > Anyone up for some coding? > > -- > > Itamar Syn-Hershko > http://code972.com | @synhershko <https://twitter.com/synhershko> > Freelance Developer & Consultant > Author of RavenDB in Action <http://manning.com/synhershko/> > >
