timing makes sense to me. +1 for having a deadline to reduce procrastination, but Adrien I don't honestly believe anyone who is paying attention thinks that is what you have been doing!
On Wed, Mar 13, 2024 at 10:40 AM Adrien Grand <jpou...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hello everyone! > > It's been ~2.5 years since we released Lucene 9.0 (December 2021) and I'd > like us to start working towards Lucene 10.0. I'm volunteering for being the > release manager and propose the following timeline: > - ~September 15th: main gets bumped to 11.x, branch_10x gets created > - ~September 22nd: Do a last 9.x minor release. > - ~October 1st: Release 10.0. > > This may sound like a long notice period. My motivation is that there are a > few changes I have on my mind that are likely worthy of a major release, and > I plan on taking advantage of a date being set to stop procrastinating and > finally start moving these enhancements forward. These are not blockers, only > my wish list for Lucene 10.0, if they are not ready in time we can have > discussions about letting them slip until the next major. > - Greater I/O concurrency. Can Lucene better utilize modern disks that are > plenty concurrent? > - Decouple search concurrency from index geometry. Can Lucene better utilize > modern CPUs that are plenty concurrent? > - "Sparse indexing" / "zone indexing" for sorted indexes. This is one of the > most efficient techniques that OLAP databases take advantage of to make > search fast. Let's bring it to Lucene. > > This list isn't meant to be an exhaustive list of release highlights for > Lucene 10, feel free to add your own. There are also a number of cleanups we > may want to consider. I wanted to share this list for visibility though in > case you have thoughts on these enhancements and/or would like to help. > > -- > Adrien --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@lucene.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@lucene.apache.org
