Just to close the loop, I’m a little later than my promised last Friday for fixing updating the missing 8.11 notes and the problem with the 8.10 Upgrade notes page still showing DRAFT watermark, but I fixed both yesterday.
Thanks for the kind words in general - always very nice to hear. I fully support more automation in as many places as we can do it, and all help on these sorts of time-sensitive tasks is appreciated :-) Cassandra On Nov 19, 2021, 6:38 AM -0600, David Smiley <[email protected]>, wrote: > +1 > > And especially > > I'd like to call out a huge THANK YOU for the tireless effort of Cassandra > > of carrying the burden of the ref-guide all these years. It really is a > > professional piece of work! Few open source projects are blessed with such > > good docs! But it is often a thankless job as well, especially the way we > > have been treating the RefGuide until now, as something handled as a > > time-critical task after the main release. > > Yes; thank you Cassandra! > > ~ David Smiley > Apache Lucene/Solr Search Developer > http://www.linkedin.com/in/davidwsmiley > > > > On Fri, Nov 19, 2021 at 4:01 AM Jan Høydahl <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Sounds to me that, from solr 9.0, such things must also go into the > > > official RM process. I have a proposal: > > > > > > Early on, right after cutting the branch, the RM files a blocker JIRA > > > issue with title e.g. "Complete Major changes and Upgrade Notes in > > > RefGudie for 9.1". > > > Note that the RM will not need to be the one authoring the text (and not > > > Cassandra either), but the release will be blocked on *someone* stepping > > > up. > > > And of course we know that RCs can in theory still be voted upon while > > > ref guide is being completed, but that blocker JIRA must be resolved > > > before announcing the release. > > > > > > I'd like to call out a huge THANK YOU for the tireless effort of > > > Cassandra of carrying the burden of the ref-guide all these years. It > > > really is a professional piece of work! Few open source projects are > > > blessed with such good docs! But it is often a thankless job as well, > > > especially the way we have been treating the RefGuide until now, as > > > something handled as a time-critical task after the main release. > > > > > > Jan > > > > > > > > > > 18. nov. 2021 kl. 21:17 skrev Cassandra Targett <[email protected]>: > > > > > > > > Ha ha, you actually wanted the 8.11 Ref Guide to be updated for 8.11? > > > > > > > > I had a few minutes today to look at the CHANGES for 8.11 and I’d like > > > > to mention a couple of things. I should have time to do this tomorrow > > > > so I will update the page and re-publish. > > > > > > > > Cassandra > > > > On Nov 17, 2021, 5:42 AM -0600, Jan Høydahl <[email protected]>, > > > > wrote: > > > > > The page linked in release announcement > > > > > https://solr.apache.org/guide/8_11/solr-upgrade-notes.html does not > > > > > have a section for 8.11 > > > > > Is that an ommission or is it not needed? > > > > > > > > > > Jan > > > > > > > > > > > 17. nov. 2021 kl. 00:39 skrev Jan Høydahl <[email protected]>: > > > > > > > > > > > > Sure, we can do an 8.11.1 right after Lucene 9.0. > > > > > > > > > > > > Jan Høydahl > > > > > > > > > > > > > 16. nov. 2021 kl. 23:22 skrev Adrien Grand <[email protected]>: > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Given Tim's comment I plan to announce the 8.11 release tomorrow > > > > > > > morning EU time. Please let me know if this doesn't sound right. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > On Tue, Nov 16, 2021 at 6:02 PM Timothy Potter > > > > > > > > <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > > > > > Agree it should be fixed but don't think we should rush out > > > > > > > > > an 8.11.1 > > > > > > > > > for this given 1) you can only read the file from that > > > > > > > > > screen, there's > > > > > > > > > no support for editing files (which would be a useful > > > > > > > > > feature), 2) you > > > > > > > > > can still read the files from the Cloud panel (cloud -> tree > > > > > > > > > -> > > > > > > > > > configs ...) > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Tim > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > On Tue, Nov 16, 2021 at 9:43 AM Jan Høydahl > > > > > > > > > <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > There is a bad regression in Solr 8.11.0, reported on the > > > > > > > > > > user-list, causing the Collection -> Files screen of the > > > > > > > > > > Admin UI to always fail to display any file. > > > > > > > > > > It's caused by > > > > > > > > > > https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SOLR-15678 and I > > > > > > > > > > think a quick 8.11.1 release with this and potentially > > > > > > > > > > other critical bug fixes is needed. > > > > > > > > > > Question is whether we want to wait until 8.11.1 with > > > > > > > > > > announcing Solr 8.11 to the public at all? > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Jan > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > 16. nov. 2021 kl. 17:36 skrev Houston Putman > > > > > > > > > > <[email protected]>: > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > The 8.11 ref guide should be all good now! > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > https://solr.apache.org/guide/8_11/index.html > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > - Houston > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > On Tue, Nov 16, 2021 at 10:15 AM Houston Putman > > > > > > > > > > <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > > > > > >> > > > > > > > > > >> Hey Adrien, > > > > > > > > > >> > > > > > > > > > >> I'm working on uploading it right now. Will let you know > > > > > > > > > >> when it's done. > > > > > > > > > >> > > > > > > > > > >> - Houston > > > > > > > > > >> > > > > > > > > > >> On Tue, Nov 16, 2021 at 8:13 AM Adrien Grand > > > > > > > > > >> <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > > > > > >>> > > > > > > > > > >>> Hello, > > > > > > > > > >>> > > > > > > > > > >>> I was about to announce the 8.11 release of Solr but the > > > > > > > > > >>> announcement contains a link to the reference guide for > > > > > > > > > >>> 8.11 which doesn't seem to exist yet. Should I wait for > > > > > > > > > >>> it to be published before announcing the release? > > > > > > > > > >>> > > > > > > > > > >>> -- > > > > > > > > > >>> Adrien > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > > > > > > Adrien > > > > > > > >
