Hi Hoss, What I meant by the sentence is actually it's a good thing to work on it now because SOLR is in "dev" stage, and not in "pre-release" or "feature freeze" state, as indicated by the *-dev on the release #...
Cheers, Chris On 11/29/09 3:55 PM, "Chris Hostetter" <hossman_luc...@fucit.org> wrote: I don't really understand what you mean by this sentence ... but i get the impression that you are saying we shouldn't attempt anythign too major just because the version info on the trunk says "1.5-dev" that doesn't mean anyone is expecting to release 1.5 ASAP ... that's just the default version info on the trunk ("-dev" appended to whatever we expect the next version to be ... if at some point we decide the next version should be called 49.3 then the trunk would change to "49.3-dev" besides which: since what we're talking about is really a brand new API that other ResponseWriters could compose and/or extend to produce XML structures, even if we did anticipate a release ASAP there would be no downside to working on it now -- we just wouldn't release it (or release it as package private) if we didn't think it was ready. ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Chris Mattmann, Ph.D. Senior Computer Scientist NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory Pasadena, CA 91109 USA Office: 171-266B, Mailstop: 171-246 Email: chris.mattm...@jpl.nasa.gov WWW: http://sunset.usc.edu/~mattmann/ ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Adjunct Assistant Professor, Computer Science Department University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089 USA ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++