Yes Uwe, it is ready for Jenkins testing. The Solr tests should run very fast now.
As for naming, our package manager in Solr will break if we don't specify a major and a minor version. There's a concept of version constraints for packages that need to compare against Solr version. I think release process will also be much simpler if we have a major and minor version. We have done a similar release in the past, 4.0.0-beta iirc. Why I favour 10.0-alpha or something like that is because users would clearly know it is something that isn't coming right now (and hence very early access), and it is logically a major version change (that comes after 8x). With calling it 10x instead of 9x, we have the scope of abandoning the effort as a whole if the early access releases have some serious problem or we decide to take some other release strategy later. If the 10.0-alpha succeeds, we can always fold the changes back into a 9.1 or go from 9.0 straight to 10.0, depending on what we decide later. Alternatively, if the release looks good and 9.0 hasn't released yet, we can fold those changes back to master, and either (a) release everything normally as 9.0, or (b) call master as 10x and release from there (going from 8.8 to 10.0 directly, skipping 9x altogether). Tldr, we shall have complete flexibility to go in any direction we want to. WDYT? On Sun, 4 Oct, 2020, 2:31 am Uwe Schindler, <[email protected]> wrote: > Is the branch ready for Jenkins testing? > > If yes and "gradlew check" works, I really would like to set it up. > > Uwe > > Am October 3, 2020 7:42:22 PM UTC schrieb Ishan Chattopadhyaya < > [email protected]>: >> >> Hi Devs, >> >> As you might be aware, the reference_impl branch has a lot of >> improvements that we want to see in Solr master. However, it is currently a >> large deviation from master and hence the stability and reliability (though >> improved in certain aspects) remains to be tested in real production >> environments before we gain confidence in bringing those changes to master. >> >> I propose that we do a one off preview release from that branch, say Solr >> 10 alpha (early access) or any other name that someone suggests, so that >> users could try it out and report regressions or improvements etc. >> >> I volunteer to be the RM and planning to start the process around 1 >> December-15 December timeframe. Until then, we can tighten the loose ends >> on the branch and plan for such a release. >> >> Is there any thoughts, concerns, questions? >> >> Regards, >> Ishan >> > > -- > Uwe Schindler > Achterdiek 19, 28357 Bremen > https://www.thetaphi.de >
