I completely agree with Houston; let's not create branch_9_0 yet. ~ David Smiley Apache Lucene/Solr Search Developer http://www.linkedin.com/in/davidwsmiley
On Mon, Jan 3, 2022 at 11:36 AM Houston Putman <[email protected]> wrote: > I think its fine to start with just branch_9x until we are ready to > actually do the release, even if it is unconventional for our processes. > There’s no need to have a branch_9_0 until there are actual reasons that > 9x and 9_0 would differ (i.e. 9.0.0 is ready to be released and people want > to add things for 9.1.0). > > On Mon, Jan 3, 2022 at 10:31 AM Jan Høydahl <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Happy New Year everyone! >> >> According to my initial mail it's now time to cut branch_9x. However, I'm >> in the middle of some build and build-script tuning, so it may delay a few >> days more. >> >> I'm also wondering whether it's better to cut both branch_9x and well as >> branch_9_0 so everyone can continue adding features for 9.1, with the cost >> of having to do another backport for every fix that is targeted for 9.0. >> Will it be confusing to treat branch_9x as a feature-frozen release-branch >> for all of January? >> >> Jan >> >> 21. des. 2021 kl. 20:03 skrev David Smiley <[email protected]>: >> >> Thanks for volunteering to be the RM! >> >> No comment on the timeline; I'm in denial of the time flying. Log4shell >> and all that. >> >> Let's go to Lucene 9.1 and not 9.0. I'm seeing a massive change to >> lucene-test-framework in 9.1 on it's way that IMO ought to have been done >> in 9.0. Going right to 9.1 averts issues there for Solr users writing >> plugins. >> >> You're right RE blockers -- it's always tough to let go of our >> ideals/hopes/dreams on what we want 9.0 to be. >> >> ~ David Smiley >> Apache Lucene/Solr Search Developer >> http://www.linkedin.com/in/davidwsmiley >> >> >> On Tue, Dec 21, 2021 at 10:57 AM Jan Høydahl <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> >>> Hi, >>> >>> Solr's next feature release will be 9.0 (as 8x is in bugfix mode). >>> Let's not even think about hacking an 8.12 release based on lucene-solr >>> 8x branch. It will be ugly. >>> >>> The "Solr 9.0 release blockers" thread >>> <https://lists.apache.org/thread/m7k2gvgxldkns7jqjnw1ghhqx7s3tpl1> was >>> started exactly 2 months ago to try to prepare us. But we're moving slowly. >>> The same happened for Lucene, until the 9.0 release :) So I'll start the >>> train right now... >>> >>> I propose the following rough roadmap: >>> >>> >>> - *December*: Cut branch_9x next week and enter feature freeze on >>> that branch >>> - *January*: Remove blockers, prepare build & release machinery, >>> including Docker >>> - *February*: Cut branch_9_0 and build RC1 - branch_9x is again >>> re-opened for new features >>> >>> >>> I volunteer as RM. >>> >>> Wrt blockers, we need to be tough on ourselves and ask the question "Is >>> it possible to release 9.0 without this?".. >>> At the end of January we should have only a few real blockers left, that >>> are all actively in progress. >>> The delay between branch_9x and branch_9_0 is to avoid having to >>> backport everything twice during the hardening phase. >>> >>> Jan >>> >>> >>
