Simultaneous releases are also confusing for users, in addition to the back-compat tests as our website chronologically lists our releases and it gets complicated for someone reading the 'News' page.
As 8.7 isn't a release that needs to be rushed, waiting until 8.6.3 is released and back-compat indexes are pushed will make things easier for the RMs and community. On Wed, Sep 23, 2020 at 1:43 PM David Smiley <[email protected]> wrote: > Jason: Thanks for volunteering to do an 8.6.3! I recently fixed > SOLR-14768 <https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SOLR-14768>, multipart > HTTP POST was broken in 8.6 (a regression I introduced). If you can't do > the release or need help, I will take over. It's the least I can offer in > repentance for the regression. > > ~ David Smiley > Apache Lucene/Solr Search Developer > http://www.linkedin.com/in/davidwsmiley > > > On Wed, Sep 23, 2020 at 10:07 AM Jason Gerlowski <[email protected]> > 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: [email protected] >> For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] >> >> -- Anshum Gupta
