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> I'd like to call out a huge THANK YOU for the tireless effort of Cassandra > of carrying the burden of the ref-guide all these years. It really is a > professional piece of work! Few open source projects are blessed with such > good docs! But it is often a thankless job as well, especially the way we > have been treating the RefGuide until now, as something handled as a > time-critical task after the main release. > Yes; thank you Cassandra! ~ David Smiley Apache Lucene/Solr Search Developer http://www.linkedin.com/in/davidwsmiley On Fri, Nov 19, 2021 at 4:01 AM Jan Høydahl <[email protected]> wrote: > Sounds to me that, from solr 9.0, such things must also go into the > official RM process. I have a proposal: > > Early on, right after cutting the branch, the RM files a *blocker* JIRA > issue with title e.g. "Complete Major changes and Upgrade Notes in RefGudie > for 9.1". > Note that the RM will not need to be the one authoring the text (and not > Cassandra either), but the release will be blocked on *someone* stepping up. > And of course we know that RCs can in theory still be voted upon while ref > guide is being completed, but that blocker JIRA must be resolved before > announcing the release. > > I'd like to call out a huge THANK YOU for the tireless effort of Cassandra > of carrying the burden of the ref-guide all these years. It really is a > professional piece of work! Few open source projects are blessed with such > good docs! But it is often a thankless job as well, especially the way we > have been treating the RefGuide until now, as something handled as a > time-critical task after the main release. > > Jan > > > 18. nov. 2021 kl. 21:17 skrev Cassandra Targett <[email protected]>: > > Ha ha, you actually wanted the 8.11 Ref Guide to be updated for 8.11? > > I had a few minutes today to look at the CHANGES for 8.11 and I’d like to > mention a couple of things. I should have time to do this tomorrow so I > will update the page and re-publish. > > Cassandra > On Nov 17, 2021, 5:42 AM -0600, Jan Høydahl <[email protected]>, > wrote: > > The page linked in release announcement > https://solr.apache.org/guide/8_11/solr-upgrade-notes.html does not have > a section for 8.11 > Is that an ommission or is it not needed? > > Jan > > 17. nov. 2021 kl. 00:39 skrev Jan Høydahl <[email protected]>: > > Sure, we can do an 8.11.1 right after Lucene 9.0. > > Jan Høydahl > > 16. nov. 2021 kl. 23:22 skrev Adrien Grand <[email protected]>: > > > Given Tim's comment I plan to announce the 8.11 release tomorrow morning > EU time. Please let me know if this doesn't sound right. > > On Tue, Nov 16, 2021 at 6:02 PM Timothy Potter <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> Agree it should be fixed but don't think we should rush out an 8.11.1 >> for this given 1) you can only read the file from that screen, there's >> no support for editing files (which would be a useful feature), 2) you >> can still read the files from the Cloud panel (cloud -> tree -> >> configs ...) >> >> Tim >> >> On Tue, Nov 16, 2021 at 9:43 AM Jan Høydahl <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> > >> > There is a bad regression in Solr 8.11.0, reported on the user-list, >> causing the Collection -> Files screen of the Admin UI to always fail to >> display any file. >> > It's caused by https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SOLR-15678 and I >> think a quick 8.11.1 release with this and potentially other critical bug >> fixes is needed. >> > Question is whether we want to wait until 8.11.1 with announcing Solr >> 8.11 to the public at all? >> > >> > Jan >> > >> > 16. nov. 2021 kl. 17:36 skrev Houston Putman <[email protected]>: >> > >> > The 8.11 ref guide should be all good now! >> > >> > https://solr.apache.org/guide/8_11/index.html >> > >> > - Houston >> > >> > On Tue, Nov 16, 2021 at 10:15 AM Houston Putman <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> >> >> >> Hey Adrien, >> >> >> >> I'm working on uploading it right now. Will let you know when it's >> done. >> >> >> >> - Houston >> >> >> >> On Tue, Nov 16, 2021 at 8:13 AM Adrien Grand <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> >>> >> >>> Hello, >> >>> >> >>> I was about to announce the 8.11 release of Solr but the announcement >> contains a link to the reference guide for 8.11 which doesn't seem to exist >> yet. Should I wait for it to be published before announcing the release? >> >>> >> >>> -- >> >>> Adrien >> > >> > >> > > > -- > Adrien > > > >
