I will try out the patch and test it and report back here. Stay tuned... Bill
On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 6:36 AM, Grant Ingersoll <[email protected]>wrote: > > On Sep 28, 2009, at 10:09 PM, Bill Au wrote: > > Dropping it completely from 1.4 seems a little too drastic to me, since >> the >> problem is with IE8 only. >> > > Yeah, but the last patch had doubts about IE7, too. Bill, is there any > chance you could try out the patch and test it and apply it? > > I'd like to see it released too, as then it will attract more attention, > otherwise, we can remove it from just this release. > > > Bill >> >> On Mon, Sep 28, 2009 at 9:47 PM, Ryan McKinley <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> can we leave it in svn, but drop it from the release? logistically, >>> what is the best way to do this? Make a branch now, remove it from >>> /trunk, after release copy it from the branch back into /trunk? >>> >>> That seems like the best way to kick the can down the road. I agree >>> an off-the-shelf apache license jquery client is great. >>> >>> ryan >>> >>> >>> On Mon, Sep 28, 2009 at 9:13 PM, Grant Ingersoll <[email protected]> >>> wrote: >>> >>>> Moving to GPL doesn't seem like a good solution to me, but I don't know >>>> >>> what >>> >>>> else to propose. Why don't we just hold it from this release, but keep >>>> >>> it >>> >>>> in trunk and encourage the Drupal guys and others to submit their >>>> >>> changes? >>> >>>> Perhaps by then Matthias or you or someone else will have stepped up. >>>> >>>> On Sep 28, 2009, at 7:27 PM, Ryan McKinley wrote: >>>> >>>> I just discussed this off-line with Matthias. It does not look like >>>>> he has the time to give this much attention now. (nor do I) >>>>> >>>>> We agreed that the best steps forward are to: >>>>> 1. Support the Drupal guys GPL port >>>>> 2. Archive the solrjs code to solrstuff.org >>>>> 3. Yank solrjs from apache svn (and 1.4 release) >>>>> 4. Add links to the drupal code (GPL) and the solrjs archive (Apache) >>>>> >>>>> Does this sound reasonable to everybody? >>>>> >>>>> ryan >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> On Mon, Sep 28, 2009 at 1:27 PM, Grant Ingersoll <[email protected]> >>>>> wrote: >>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> Forwarded with permission from Peter Wolanin on a private thread. >>>>>> >>>>>> Begin forwarded message: >>>>>> >>>>>> From: Peter Wolanin <[email protected]> >>>>>>> Date: September 26, 2009 9:43:23 AM EDT >>>>>>> To: Grant Ingersoll <[email protected]> >>>>>>> >>>>>>> Subject: Re: 8 for 1.4 >>>>>>> >>>>>>> I talked to the guys reworking the JS library for Drupal at Drupalcon >>>>>>> - they are also having to fork potentially around license as much as >>>>>>> anything else, since they'd like to distribute via drupal.org, which >>>>>>> means they were hoping to get the original author to re-license the >>>>>>> code to them as GPL. >>>>>>> >>>>>>> -Peter >>>>>>> >>>>>>> On Fri, Sep 25, 2009 at 4:45 PM, Grant Ingersoll < >>>>>>> [email protected] >>>>>>> >>>>>> >>>> wrote: >>>>>>> >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> Argh, this was meant for solr-dev. >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> Begin forwarded message: >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> From: Grant Ingersoll <[email protected]> >>>>>>>>> Date: September 25, 2009 1:34:32 PM EDT >>>>>>>>> To: [email protected] >>>>>>>>> Subject: 8 for 1.4 >>>>>>>>> Reply-To: [email protected] >>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>> Y'all, >>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>> We're down to 8 open issues: >>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>> >>> https://issues.apache.org/jira/secure/BrowseVersion.jspa?id=12310230&versionId=12313351&showOpenIssuesOnly=true >>> >>>> >>>>>>>>> 2 are packaging related, one is dependent on the official 2.9 >>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> release >>> >>>> (so >>>>>>>>> should be taken care of today or tomorrow I suspect) and then we >>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> have >>> >>>> a >>>>>>>>> few >>>>>>>>> others. >>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>> The only two somewhat major ones are S-1458, S-1294 (more on this >>>>>>>>> in >>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> a >>> >>>> mo') and S-1449. >>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>> On S-1294, the SolrJS patch, I yet again have concerns about even >>>>>>>>> including this, given the lack of activity (from Matthias, the >>>>>>>>> original >>>>>>>>> author and others) and the fact that some in the Drupal community >>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> have >>> >>>> already forked this to fix the various bugs in it instead of just >>>>>>>>> submitting >>>>>>>>> patches. While I really like the idea of this library (jQuery is >>>>>>>>> awesome), >>>>>>>>> I have yet to see interest in the community to maintain it (unless >>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> you >>> >>>> count >>>>>>>>> someone forking it and fixing the bugs in the fork as maintenance) >>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> and >>> >>>> I'll >>>>>>>>> be upfront in admitting I have neither the time nor the patience to >>>>>>>>> debug >>>>>>>>> Javascript across the gazillions of browsers out there (I don't >>>>>>>>> even >>>>>>>>> have IE >>>>>>>>> on my machine unless you count firing up a VM w/ XP on it) in the >>>>>>>>> wild. >>>>>>>>> Given what I know of most of the other committers here, I suspect >>>>>>>>> that >>>>>>>>> is >>>>>>>>> true for others too. At a minimum, I think S-1294 should be pushed >>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> to >>> >>>> 1.5. >>>>>>>>> Next up, I think we consider pulling SolrJS from the release, but >>>>>>>>> keeping >>>>>>>>> it in trunk and officially releasing it with either 1.5 or 1.4.1, >>>>>>>>> assuming >>>>>>>>> its gotten some love in the meantime. If by then it has no love, I >>>>>>>>> vote >>>>>>>>> we >>>>>>>>> remove it and let the fork maintain it and point people there. >>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>> -Grant >>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> >>>>>>> >>>>>>> >>>>>>> -- >>>>>>> Peter M. Wolanin, Ph.D. >>>>>>> Momentum Specialist, Acquia. Inc. >>>>>>> [email protected] >>>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> -------------------------- >>>>>> Grant Ingersoll >>>>>> http://www.lucidimagination.com/ >>>>>> >>>>>> Search the Lucene ecosystem (Lucene/Solr/Nutch/Mahout/Tika/Droids) >>>>>> >>>>> using >>> >>>> Solr/Lucene: >>>>>> http://www.lucidimagination.com/search >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>> -------------------------- >>>> Grant Ingersoll >>>> http://www.lucidimagination.com/ >>>> >>>> Search the Lucene ecosystem (Lucene/Solr/Nutch/Mahout/Tika/Droids) using >>>> Solr/Lucene: >>>> http://www.lucidimagination.com/search >>>> >>>> >>>> >>> > -------------------------- > Grant Ingersoll > http://www.lucidimagination.com/ > > Search the Lucene ecosystem (Lucene/Solr/Nutch/Mahout/Tika/Droids) using > Solr/Lucene: > http://www.lucidimagination.com/search > >
