Yes, that new BKD/Points based code is definitely something we want in 8 or
7.5 -- it's a big deal.  I think it would also be awesome if we had
highlighter that could use the Weight.matches() API -- again for either 7.5
or 8.  I'm working on this on the UnifiedHighlighter front and Alan from
other aspects.
~ David

On Wed, Aug 1, 2018 at 12:51 PM Adrien Grand <[email protected]> wrote:

> I was hoping that we would release some bits of this new support for geo
> shapes in 7.5 already. We are already very close to being able to index
> points, lines and polygons and query for intersection with an envelope. It
> would be nice to add support for other relations (eg. disjoint) and queries
> (eg. polygon) but the current work looks already useful to me.
>
> Le mer. 1 août 2018 à 17:00, Robert Muir <[email protected]> a écrit :
>
>> My only other suggestion is we may want to get Nick's shape stuff into
>> the sandbox module at least for 8.0 so that it can be tested out. I
>> think it looks like that wouldn't delay any October target though?
>>
>> On Wed, Aug 1, 2018 at 9:51 AM, Adrien Grand <[email protected]> wrote:
>> > I'd like to revive this thread now that these new optimizations for
>> > collection of top docs are more usable and enabled by default in
>> > IndexSearcher (https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LUCENE-8060). Any
>> > feedback about starting to work towards releasing 8.0 and targeting
>> October
>> > 2018?
>> >
>> >
>> > Le jeu. 21 juin 2018 à 09:31, Adrien Grand <[email protected]> a écrit
>> :
>> >>
>> >> Hi Robert,
>> >>
>> >> I agree we need to make it more usable before 8.0. I would also like to
>> >> improve ReqOptSumScorer (
>> https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LUCENE-8204)
>> >> to leverage impacts so that queries that incorporate queries on feature
>> >> fields (https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LUCENE-8197) in an
>> optional
>> >> clause are also fast.
>> >>
>> >> Le jeu. 21 juin 2018 à 03:06, Robert Muir <[email protected]> a écrit :
>> >>>
>> >>> How can the end user actually use the biggest new feature: impacts and
>> >>> BMW? As far as I can tell, the issue to actually implement the
>> >>> necessary API changes (IndexSearcher/TopDocs/etc) is still open and
>> >>> unresolved, although there are some interesting ideas on it. This
>> >>> seems like a really big missing piece, without a proper API, the stuff
>> >>> is not really usable. I also can't imagine a situation where the API
>> >>> could be introduced in a followup minor release because it would be
>> >>> too invasive.
>> >>>
>> >>> On Mon, Jun 18, 2018 at 1:19 PM, Adrien Grand <[email protected]>
>> wrote:
>> >>> > Hi all,
>> >>> >
>> >>> > I would like to start discussing releasing Lucene/Solr 8.0. Lucene 8
>> >>> > already
>> >>> > has some good changes around scoring, notably cleanups to
>> >>> > similarities[1][2][3], indexing of impacts[4], and an
>> implementation of
>> >>> > Block-Max WAND[5] which, once combined, allow to run queries faster
>> >>> > when
>> >>> > total hit counts are not requested.
>> >>> >
>> >>> > [1] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LUCENE-8116
>> >>> > [2] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LUCENE-8020
>> >>> > [3] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LUCENE-8007
>> >>> > [4] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LUCENE-4198
>> >>> > [5] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LUCENE-8135
>> >>> >
>> >>> > In terms of bug fixes, there is also a bad relevancy bug[6] which is
>> >>> > only in
>> >>> > 8.0 because it required a breaking change[7] to be implemented.
>> >>> >
>> >>> > [6] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LUCENE-8031
>> >>> > [7] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LUCENE-8134
>> >>> >
>> >>> > As usual, doing a new major release will also help age out old
>> codecs,
>> >>> > which
>> >>> > in-turn make maintenance easier: 8.0 will no longer need to care
>> about
>> >>> > the
>> >>> > fact that some codecs were initially implemented with a
>> random-access
>> >>> > API
>> >>> > for doc values, that pre-7.0 indices encoded norms differently, or
>> that
>> >>> > pre-6.2 indices could not record an index sort.
>> >>> >
>> >>> > I also expect that we will come up with ideas of things to do for
>> 8.0
>> >>> > as we
>> >>> > feel that the next major is getting closer. In terms of planning, I
>> was
>> >>> > thinking that we could target something like october 2018, which
>> would
>> >>> > be
>> >>> > 12-13 months after 7.0 and 3-4 months from now.
>> >>> >
>> >>> > From a Solr perspective, the main change I'm aware of that would be
>> >>> > worth
>> >>> > releasing a new major is the Star Burst effort. Is it something we
>> want
>> >>> > to
>> >>> > get in for 8.0?
>> >>> >
>> >>> > Adrien
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