[ 
https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LUCENE-7543?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:comment-tabpanel&focusedCommentId=15687971#comment-15687971
 ] 

Steve Rowe commented on LUCENE-7543:
------------------------------------

{quote}
It is not a small issue, but it would be an issue for everybody actually trying 
to parse the doap file. Could we at least make it consistent internally (at the 
moment, it is solr-4.3 but solr-4.9.0). I still think x.y.z is better, 
otherwise, we should also have 5, not 5.0 for consistency.
I know it is a nitpicking, but I write the parsing tools and these things are 
disproportionally annoying and confusing. I am happy to do the change myself to 
normalize to x.y.z, if you don't mind.
{quote}

The problem is that *people* think of them as interchangeable, regardless of 
programmatic "inconsistency", and though you may normalize them up through 
today, a future release manager *will* generate more "inconsistencies".  Better 
to teach the programs to understand the humans than vice versa.  Do you really 
want to spend time arguing with people in the future about how they have to 
have the right number of trailing zeros in all the places they record release 
numbers?  I know I don't.

> Make changes-to-html target an offline operation
> ------------------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: LUCENE-7543
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LUCENE-7543
>             Project: Lucene - Core
>          Issue Type: Task
>            Reporter: Steve Rowe
>            Assignee: Steve Rowe
>             Fix For: master (7.0), 6.0.2, 6.1.1, 5.6, 5.5.4, 6.2.2, 6.4, 6.3.1
>
>         Attachments: LUCENE-7543-drop-XML-Simple.patch, LUCENE-7543.patch, 
> LUCENE-7543.patch, LUCENE-7543.patch
>
>
> Currently changes-to-html pulls release dates from JIRA, and so fails when 
> JIRA is inaccessible (e.g. from behind a firewall).
> SOLR-9711 advocates adding a build sysprop to ignore JIRA connection 
> failures, but I'd rather make the operation always offline.
> In an offline discussion, [~hossman] advocated moving Lucene's and Solr's 
> {{doap.rdf}} files, which contain all of the release dates that the 
> changes-to-html now pulls from JIRA, from the CMS Subversion repository 
> (downloadable from the website at http://lucene.apache.org/core/doap.rdf and 
> http://lucene.apache.org/solr/doap.rdf) to the Lucene/Solr git repository. If 
> we did that, then the process could be entirely offline if release dates were 
> taken from the local {{doap.rdf}} files instead of downloaded from JIRA.



--
This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA
(v6.3.4#6332)

---------------------------------------------------------------------
To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@lucene.apache.org
For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@lucene.apache.org

Reply via email to