I think this plan seems reasonable to me. +1 -Jeremiah
> On Jul 26, 2023, at 5:28 PM, Mick Semb Wever <m...@apache.org> wrote: > > > > The previous thread¹ on when to freeze 5.0 landed on freezing the first week > of August, with a waiver in place for TCM and Accord to land later (but > before October). > > With JDK8 now dropped and SAI and UCS merged, the only expected 5.0 work that > hasn't landed is Vector search (CEP-30). > > Are there any objections to a waiver on Vector search? All the groundwork: > SAI and the vector type; has been merged, with all remaining work expected to > land in August. > > I'm keen to freeze and see us shift gears – there's already SO MUCH in 5.0 > and a long list of flakies. It takes time and patience to triage and > identify the bugs that hit us before GA. The freeze is about being "mostly > feature complete", so we have room for things before our first beta > (precedence is to ask). If we hope for a GA by December, account for the 6 > weeks turnaround time for cutting and voting on one alpha, one beta, and one > rc release, and the quiet period that August is, we really only have > September and October left. > > I already feel this is asking a bit of a miracle from us given how 4.1 went > (and I'm hoping I will be proven wrong). > > In addition, are there any objections to cutting an 5.0-alpha1 release as > soon as we freeze? > > This is on the understanding vector, tcm and accord will become available in > later alphas. Originally the discussion¹ was waiting for Accord for alpha1, > but a number of folk off-list have requested earlier alphas to help with > testing. > > > ¹) https://lists.apache.org/thread/9c5cnn57c7oqw8wzo3zs0dkrm4f17lm3
