Marvin Humphrey wrote on 7/23/10 3:27 PM: > On Fri, Jul 23, 2010 at 11:00:58AM -0500, Peter Karman wrote: >> those all sound good for Lucy. Should not impede the KS3 release though. I >> imagine Lucy1 as an improvement on KS3, inspiring users to migrate. > > Forking and releasing KS3 is not a huge development burden in the grand scheme > of things, but I'm not sure it's wise from a marketing perspective.
I think a KS release does two things: (1) it says to the existing community that they have not spent years waiting in vain for a stable, production-ready, blessed release of KS, and (2) it is consistent with release early and often. You wrote earlier in this thread: It probably makes sense to make one more KinoSearch release addressing some of the issues for the transition. I am agreeing with that. I think it should either be KinoSearch3, or KinoSearch 0.3, I don't care which. KinoSearch 0.3 seems like it would be less confusing. I don't think a stable KS release undermines Lucy's marketing efforts. Working, stable code is a good thing. The KS release could clearly state in its documentation that it represents several years of development effort, culminating in a final, stable release of the mmap-based index format, and that future development will be on Lucy. Anyone who has paid a minute's attention to the KS project over the last few years knows about this "Lucy thing" but the timing and schedule has all been a bit hand-wavey. So there's no surprise here; instead there are definites: a final stable KS release, and adoption by the Apache Incubator of the Lucy fork of KS. We could make a final KS release tomorrow, handshakes and champagne all around, and move on. > > From my perspective, the sooner that KinoSearch gets EOL'd and we can focus on > Lucy development in earnest, the better. I wouldn't mind having some extra > pressure to release Lucy1 ASAP because we didn't release KinoSearch3. :) I agree with that first sentence. I think we're negotiating what "EOL'd" means. I think it should mean a 0.3 release, with no more releases except for security fixes. -- Peter Karman . http://peknet.com/ . [email protected]
