Thanks Cassandra. I read it. IMO, I think the word "Deprecated" is just too misleading for plugins that are *moving*.
~ David Smiley Apache Lucene/Solr Search Developer http://www.linkedin.com/in/davidwsmiley On Thu, Oct 15, 2020 at 5:16 PM Cassandra Targett <[email protected]> wrote: > I updated the Ref Guide for 8.7 to include a link to the plugin repo (for > all plugins which have an established repo, not just DIH), hoping that > would help answer user questions and spur adoption. That’s just a > super-minor thing, but it’s something. > > If Rohit doesn’t have time to be a maintainer now and no one else wants to > be, would a separate GitHub org help that? I understand the motivation for > sharing the burden…I guess you’re thinking that single org would allow > people to be maintainers on multiple plugins? > > Draft for 8.7 Guide is here if interested to see what I did: > https://nightlies.apache.org/Lucene/Solr-reference-guide-8.x/uploading-structured-data-store-data-with-the-data-import-handler.html > On Oct 15, 2020, 3:52 PM -0500, Jan Høydahl <[email protected]>, > wrote: > > Some of those issues are opened by me, not beause I plan to be a DIH > maintainer myself, but I was hoping that Rohit had some real interest in > forming a comunity. > Turns out that the plugin is as good as dead on arrival, which is really > disappointing. > > We as the donator could perhaps help by sending an email, with a reminder > that DIH is being deprecated and that the new plugin really needs more > maintainers. > That’s why I filed > https://github.com/rohitbemax/dataimporthandler/issues/12, else people > arriving to the page would not even know how to contribute or become a > committer. > I could whip up a PR for the README inviting contributors, but I’m > honestly not so sure that newcomers would feel welcome, as their > contributions would likely attract no attention :( > > So I wonder if instead someone (Ishan?) should setup a new GitHub > organization, migrate the project there, and add Rohit and others as > maintainers. That lifts the burden off one man's shoulders. > > Jan > > a15. okt. 2020 kl. 21:40 skrev Marcus Eagan <[email protected]>: > > There’s always issues opened in every product that aren’t being closed. > Everyone who knows it or cares about it should be pitching in. > > Marcus > > On Thu, Oct 15, 2020 at 12:21 Eric Pugh <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> I noticed that we’re getting tickets like SOLR-14938 opened that are all >> about the future of DIH. I know some of my own clients are asking about it >> as well. I suspect we will get more and more of these! >> >> I wonder if there are any ideas/suggestions on how to better communicate >> that DIH isn’t going away, and indeed, it’s moving to a better place (I >> hope!). Do we want to add to the UI a message about “join the new >> community at https://github.com/rohitbemax/dataimporthandler”? >> >> Having said that, I see issues opening at >> https://github.com/rohitbemax/dataimporthandler and not being closed, so >> I do have some concerns that a supportive community may not actually be >> forming. >> >> >> Eric >> >> _______________________ >> *Eric Pugh **| *Founder & CEO | OpenSource Connections, LLC | 434.466.1467 >> | http://www.opensourceconnections.com | My Free/Busy >> <http://tinyurl.com/eric-cal> >> Co-Author: Apache Solr Enterprise Search Server, 3rd Ed >> <https://www.packtpub.com/big-data-and-business-intelligence/apache-solr-enterprise-search-server-third-edition-raw> >> This e-mail and all contents, including attachments, is considered to be >> Company Confidential unless explicitly stated otherwise, regardless >> of whether attachments are marked as such. >> >> -- > Marcus Eagan > > >
