That all seems sane to me.  I'll create a Github ticket around adding
a note to the README about Solr versions.

Jason

On Mon, Aug 2, 2021 at 5:24 PM Houston Putman <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Very good question.
>
>
> Currently we "support" all recent versions of Solr, meaning 7 & 8.
>
> This doesn't mean that Solr 6 won't work, it just hasn't been thoroughly 
> tested.
>
> We do eventually plan on limiting support to a range of Solr versions.
>
> I imagine that once Solr 9 is released, we will begin supporting 8+ on the 
> next Solr Operator release.
>
> But we could explicitly call out support for 7.7.2+ starting with v0.4.0, if 
> we so desire.
>
>
> We have been adding a few things to Solr, so that in the future the operator 
> code can be less complex.
>
> We should compile a list so that when we are upgrading the minimum Solr 
> version, we have an easy way to see the Solr Operator changes that should be 
> made in response.
>
>
> I would say that you can add support for a feature that requires a newer 
> version of Solr, it just has to be optional and turned off by default.
>
> The documentation in the CRD as well as the Solr Operator docs should plainly 
> state the minimum Solr version needed for that feature.
>
> But that's my opinion, I would love to hear from others.
>
>
> - Houston
>
>
> On Mon, Aug 2, 2021 at 5:13 PM Jason Gerlowski <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>> Hey all,
>>
>> Breaking out this thread from a side-comment on "Proposal to cut the
>> v0.4.0 release soon".
>>
>> Are we targeting particular Solr operator releases at particular Solr
>> versions (or ranges of Solr versions)?  (If not, should we be?)
>>
>> The repo README calls out Kubernetes version compatibility but doesn't
>> speak to Solr compatibility that I saw.  I imagine this isn't a huge
>> issue generally assuming Solr's docker image structure stays
>> relatively unchanged, but it does matter in some situations: e.g. if
>> the operator wanted to add a feature taking advantage of a Solr
>> feature only introduced in, say, 8.8.
>>
>> Best,
>>
>> Jason
>>
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