Hi Sanne, I had the same thought a few days ago. At Open Wide, we used to follow the ORM versions very closely and we usually had a corresponding Search version very soon.
I agree we need to release something compatible with ORM 5.2 sooner rather than later. I understand your concern about bringing Elasticsearch to WildFly users but it feels quite weird for a "product" version to be the reference for our community work. IMHO, it would make more sense to have our main development efforts on a community release backed by 5.2 and eventually backport the Elasticsearch work to 5.6 and make a 5.6 release if it ends up to be useful for product. -- Guillaume On Thu, Aug 11, 2016 at 3:11 PM, Sanne Grinovero <sa...@hibernate.org> wrote: > Hi all, > as you might be aware, ORM 5.2 made some rather radical internal work, > and the latest Hibernate Search releases aren't compatible. > > So far, business as usual: we typically simply catch up on the next minor. > > The problem is that normally Hibernate Search releases are time-boxed > - with us only merging new features when they are ready - so that we > can trigger a release as needed, as contingency required. > > However currently we switched temporarily to a less desirable "we ship > when it's ready" as the Elasticsearch integration couldn't possibly be > developed by a single person in a feature branch, so in short we're > not in a position to "just release" it, as it's not ready and this > will take another month (optimistically). This would position > Hibernate Search 5.6 in September. > > We'd also want to have WildFly users have a chance to use this new > Elasticsearch feature, which ties us to make this release compatible > with ORM 5.0 and 5.1. > > So Hibernate ORM 5.2 users who need Hibernate Search will need to wait > for Search version 5.7, which in timelines would mean this fall.. way > too far ahead. > > (I tried to figure out a way to make Search master compatible with > both, but that's just not possible: it's either/or, barring an > outrageous amount of work which I'd rather spend in finishing 5.6 and > move on do do the migration properly..) > > On HSEARCH-2296 [1] James proposed we could already publish a 5.7 SNAPSHOT. > > Assuming we can set the right expectations, what would you think of > this idea to branch a 5.7 already even though 5.6 isn't done? > We could even call it Alpha1 and tag appropriately. The goal is of > course to make sure people have at least something they can test with > and make progress while we put our stuff together. > > The downside is of course that all remaining work on 5.6 will have to > be regularly rebased and applied to 5.7 too. Considering we won't do > any other changes on 5.7 I don't expect this to hurt too much. > > Thanks, > Sanne > > 1 - https://hibernate.atlassian.net/browse/HSEARCH-2296 > _______________________________________________ > hibernate-dev mailing list > hibernate-dev@lists.jboss.org > https://lists.jboss.org/mailman/listinfo/hibernate-dev _______________________________________________ hibernate-dev mailing list hibernate-dev@lists.jboss.org https://lists.jboss.org/mailman/listinfo/hibernate-dev