Simultaneous releases are problematic for our backward-compatibility tests, but we do not need to wait between releases, we could start the release process right away when 8.6.3 is out. I don't think there's any potential for confusion. We've done this several times in the past, e.g. 7.1.0 was released right after 7.0.1 and 8.4.0 was released right after 8.3.1.
Jason, you mentioned cutting a branch but we only do this for minor releases. Patch versions get released from the minor branch, branch_8_6 in this case, so we don't need to cut a branch and can proceed directly with building a release candidate. As branch_8_6 should be pretty stable by now I wonder if we really need to wait one week? If we built a RC on Friday instead for instance and the first vote is successful, we might not even need to delay our current plans for 8.7. On Wed, Sep 23, 2020 at 9:18 PM Ishan Chattopadhyaya < ichattopadhy...@gmail.com> wrote: > The release process is not conducive to simultaneous releases. We need to > space them out. > > On Thu, Sep 24, 2020 at 12:01 AM Atri Sharma <a...@apache.org> wrote: > >> I am not sure if two close releases are a good idea — would they not lead >> to potential confusion amongst users? >> >> In any case, I will defer to the opinion of committers. >> >> On Wed, 23 Sep 2020 at 23:46, Jason Gerlowski <gerlowsk...@gmail.com> >> wrote: >> >>> > do we want to delay that? >>> >>> >>> >>> It wasn't my intention to delay 8.7. The releases will end up being >>> >>> close together, but they're on different release lines so there's >>> >>> nothing wrong with that necessarily. Unless there's something >>> >>> inherent to the release process that makes it difficult to have two >>> >>> in-flight simultaneously? (I haven't RM'd a release yet, so there may >>> >>> well be. Though now that I think back I'm pretty sure other >>> >>> committers have done this sort of thing before...) >>> >>> >>> >>> Was there a particular reason you brought up delaying 8.7? >>> >>> >>> >>> Jason >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> On Wed, Sep 23, 2020 at 11:11 AM Atri Sharma <a...@apache.org> wrote: >>> >>> > >>> >>> > I was planning on a branch cut on 30th September for 8.7 — do we want >>> to delay that? >>> >>> > >>> >>> > On Wed, 23 Sep 2020 at 19:37, Jason Gerlowski <gerlowsk...@gmail.com> >>> wrote: >>> >>> >> >>> >>> >> Hi all, >>> >>> >> >>> >>> >> >>> >>> >> >>> >>> >> I ran into a query-parsing bug recently in SOLR-14859 that caused >>> >>> >> >>> >>> >> problems for some of my usecases. I wanted to volunteer as RM for an >>> >>> >> >>> >>> >> 8.6.3 to get a bugfix release out for users that aren't ready for some >>> >>> >> >>> >>> >> of the bigger changes in 8.7 >>> >>> >> >>> >>> >> >>> >>> >> >>> >>> >> I was thinking of cutting the branch in a week's time to give others a >>> >>> >> >>> >>> >> chance to backport any bug-fixes they might want included, with an RC >>> >>> >> >>> >>> >> to follow shortly. Does anyone have any concerns with that plan, or >>> >>> >> >>> >>> >> have anything they'd like to fix or backport before an 8.6.3 goes out? >>> >>> >> >>> >>> >> >>> >>> >> >>> >>> >> Best, >>> >>> >> >>> >>> >> >>> >>> >> >>> >>> >> Jason >>> >>> >> >>> >>> >> >>> >>> >> >>> >>> >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >>> >>> >> >>> >>> >> To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@lucene.apache.org >>> >>> >> >>> >>> >> For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@lucene.apache.org >>> >>> >> >>> >>> >> >>> >>> >> >>> >>> > -- >>> >>> > Regards, >>> >>> > >>> >>> > Atri >>> >>> > Apache Concerted >>> >>> >>> >>> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >>> >>> To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@lucene.apache.org >>> >>> For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@lucene.apache.org >>> >>> >>> >>> -- >> Regards, >> >> Atri >> Apache Concerted >> > -- Adrien
