I agree, Cassandra. The nightlies are a very good option that is very easy to get started with.
On Mon, May 3, 2021 at 9:55 AM Cassandra Targett <[email protected]> wrote: > I’m sort of surprised no one has mentioned the > https://nightlies.apache.org/ server, which could be used for this > purpose. Jenkins can push to it, and nothing gets deleted until we decide > to delete it (or overwrite it). Solr Operator builds go there as do drafts > of the Ref Guide pre-publication (in different directories now, but we’ll > fix that eventually). > > Cassandra > On May 3, 2021, 9:15 AM -0500, David Smiley <[email protected]>, wrote: > > RE "an external system like Maven" -- we're merely talking about adding > another JAR repo to the list of repos we already have. Heck, for this > limited purpose, we could even use http://home.apache.org/~dsmiley/ Note > that the Lucene project already uses home dirs of some users for benchmark > data. If we were talking about adding a Maven *build* then I would totally > appreciate your concern. > > I volunteer to use my space for this purpose. > > ~ David Smiley > Apache Lucene/Solr Search Developer > http://www.linkedin.com/in/davidwsmiley > > > On Sun, May 2, 2021 at 12:17 AM Ishan Chattopadhyaya < > [email protected]> wrote: > >> > Let’s not complicate things. >> By bringing in external systems like Maven, I think we're complicating >> things even though a straight forward way (git submodules) exists. >> >> On Sat, May 1, 2021 at 5:00 PM Jan Høydahl <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> >>> Sub modules is for organizing internal repos, not for pulling in >>> external deps. Let’s not complicate things. And once we switch main to 10.x >>> we’d need to use pure jar dependencies in branch_9x to depend upon actually >>> released and voted Lucene binaries. >>> >>> We need some tooling to smoothly work with bleeding edge Lucene >>> including local snapshot builds with not yet pushed changes to Lucene. I’d >>> rather put in some work to establish such tooling or procedures. >>> >>> Jan Høydahl >>> >>> 1. mai 2021 kl. 08:41 skrev Ishan Chattopadhyaya < >>> [email protected]>: >>> >>> >>> > What submodules don't solve is releases - if you're >>> > on a >>> particular unreleased Lucene version then releasing >>> > Solr would still mean you need some kind of >>> > "public" pinned Lucene release for the >>> > Mavenworld. >>> >>> >>> Can we then update the submodule to point to the release tag or sha that >>> Lucene got released from? >>> >>> On Sat, 1 May, 2021, 11:45 am Dawid Weiss, <[email protected]> >>> wrote: >>> >>>> > Other than literally adding the git submodule, would we do anything >>>> else to modify the gradle build so that or do we (and Jenkinsfile) have to >>>> manually do a step to install Lucene before proceeding? >>>> >>>> Technically you add a submodule and then make a composite build from >>>> Solr side. I can provide a PR that does it if you wish... This is >>>> simple. What submodules don't solve is releases - if you're on a >>>> particular unreleased Lucene version then releasing Solr would still >>>> mean you need some kind of "public" pinned Lucene release for the >>>> Maven world. If you distribute the entire thing as binaries you can >>>> just publish a snapshot of Lucene code, of course. >>>> >>>> > I think adding git submodule means that we have to add back in all >>>> the build code for it. >>>> >>>> No. The submodule is just a reference to a particular repository (and >>>> commit) - the build code and remains nearly identical as it was with >>>> Lucene. Composite builds in gradle are quite nice in that they're >>>> (almost) transparent compared to dependency references. >>>> >>>> > At which point, I'd rather just copy and commit the >>>> > code they have so we don't have to learn another git system. >>>> >>>> It's not really a different git system - it's a mechanism of >>>> interacting with multiple repositories at once. Yes, it does add some >>>> additional complexity but I think sooner or later you'll have to >>>> interact with it anyway - many people favor monorepos these days and >>>> this is a common way to assemble them from fragmented >>>> sub-repositories. >>>> >>>> > I've >>>> > heard submodules don't play nice with Jenkins, but don't have any >>>> > direct experience with them. >>>> >>>> Some tools may require an additional flag to initialize and clone >>>> sub-modules on the initial pull. Or manually. >>>> >>>> git submodule init >>>> git submodule update --recursive. >>>> >>>> To summarize - I am not pushing for submodules, I do think they're a >>>> viable alternative but pinned Maven references are simpler. The >>>> problem with maven references is that we'd need a long(er) term maven >>>> repository where such pinned references would live (without being >>>> wiped out). Perhaps infra can help here and it'd solve the problem. >>>> >>>> Dawid >>>> >>>> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >>>> To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] >>>> For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] >>>> >>>>
