Let me say at the outset that I am NOT saying "we should cut this real soon now", but wanted a quick read of what people are thinking.
I'm curious what people's thoughts are for Solr 5.0. True, Solr currently doesn't have a ton of compelling new features, certainly nothing on the order of the 3x->4x transition. That said, does it make sense to think of 5.0 as a "consolidation" release rather than a major new feature release where we > rip out all the deprecated stuff (I claim dibs on solr.xml persistence) > fix up all of the places in the code where it says //TODO Java 7 > start using Java 7 constructs freely > ??? It seems like we could use a roadmap here. Once we start not having to maintain Java 6 compat and removing deprecations, 5x->4x merging will be increasingly "interesting". My off-the-cuff vision is that we get 4.x into "good enough" shape and then start down the 5.x path once we think we're at a point where we won't be changing the 4.x code line as frequently as we are now. Straw-man time-frame: Start cutting over in the January or so. Which would be a release probably mid 2014. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
