+1, let's leave the option of the possibility On Sun, 21 Nov 2021, 00:18 David Smiley, <dsmi...@apache.org> wrote:
> +1 to “leave the door open” despite it seeming an awkward endeavor. > > > > On Sat, Nov 20, 2021 at 1:15 PM Ishan Chattopadhyaya < > ichattopadhy...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Since there is no concrete design available for that as of today, that's >> why I mentioned about "keeping the door open" for 8.12. I'm not proposing a >> 8.12 today, nor am I saying 8.12 is needed. But, in case we need one, we >> should have the ability to release it. Anyway, this discussion should >> rather happen on the Solr list. >> >> On Sat, 20 Nov, 2021, 10:10 pm Timothy Potter, <thelabd...@gmail.com> >> wrote: >> >>> A Solr 8.12 with Lucene 8.11? Not sure of the details on that but >>> sounds like a giant mess waiting to happen (at the very least, would >>> require a bunch of complicated changes to the release process). We >>> need to stop adding features to 8x and focus on 9. I can foresee an >>> 8.11.2 with bug fixes only (8.11.1 is already planned to drop >>> soon'ish). Why would Solr need an 8.12? I suspect it's related to >>> upgrading plugins, but that's been an open issue for a long while and >>> seems to keep getting pushed out. We can't just keep planning new >>> feature releases because of this plugin upgrade problem. If we really >>> need an 8.12, then we need to see a concrete design on how the upgrade >>> process will work in an 8.12. Perhaps there's a better approach that >>> only relies on code changes to the 9x line? Tough to say, we have no >>> designs or descriptions of the upgrade problem at this point. >>> >>> As of today, I'd be strongly against a Solr 8.12 release. >>> >>> Tim >>> >>> On Sat, Nov 20, 2021 at 8:32 AM Ishan Chattopadhyaya >>> <ichattopadhy...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> > >>> > I think we should keep the door open for a 8.12 release of Solr (based >>> on 8.11 Lucene). This might mean some split in the codebase, and this can >>> either happen in the lucene-solr repo or the solr repo (I'm okay with >>> either). >>> > >>> > On Sat, Nov 20, 2021 at 7:59 PM Adrien Grand <jpou...@gmail.com> >>> wrote: >>> >> >>> >> Uwe brought up the question on a the vote thread: we are not going to >>> do a 8.12 release, so what should we do of branch_8x? >>> >>> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >>> To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@lucene.apache.org >>> For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@lucene.apache.org >>> >>> -- > Sent from Gmail Mobile >
