Stefan,

> If you run into it, will it make your application crash or will it destroy 
> the index?

It causes a crash under highly concurrent scenarios, and will most likely 
affect all of the file-system directories. It does not affect the index, 
otherwise some of the index tests would have detected it. Peter van Ginkel (the 
user who discovered it) has been kind enough to contribute a test that fails 
most of the time if the concurrency bug exists, but before this none of our 
tests have been able to detect it. Peter also has been able to work around this 
bug, and I have asked him to post the workaround at: 
https://github.com/apache/lucenenet/pull/205

It is a severe bug. Is it our most severe bug? Maybe. Is it severe enough to 
destroy our reputation? Being that there is a bootleg copy out there that is 
already doing just that (that is versioned as production-ready and already has 
this bug), I would say we are better off releasing with the bug than not. If we 
didn't have that issue to contend with, I would agree with Itamar that we 
should re-roll the release.

Thanks,
Shad Storhaug (NightOwl888)




-----Original Message-----
From: Stefan Bodewig [mailto:[email protected]] 
Sent: Tuesday, May 9, 2017 11:01 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [Vote] Apache Lucene.Net 4.8.0-beta00001

On 2017-05-09, Shad Storhaug wrote:

> So technically the vote passes. However, I will give it some more time in 
> case anyone else wants to weigh in on whether the issues we have are 
> significant enough to reset the release. Presscott, Stefan, Simon, WDYT?

As you may know I'm not a user of Lucene.Net myself, so take my opinion with a 
grain of salt.

I'm not sure about the impact of the bug. If you run into it, will it make your 
application crash or wil it destroy the index? In the later case I'd say we 
should re-roll the release. Otherwise we should publish the release, fix the 
bug and plan for a second beta soon.

Stefan

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