Happy New Year everyone! According to my initial mail it's now time to cut branch_9x. However, I'm in the middle of some build and build-script tuning, so it may delay a few days more.
I'm also wondering whether it's better to cut both branch_9x and well as branch_9_0 so everyone can continue adding features for 9.1, with the cost of having to do another backport for every fix that is targeted for 9.0. Will it be confusing to treat branch_9x as a feature-frozen release-branch for all of January? Jan > 21. des. 2021 kl. 20:03 skrev David Smiley <[email protected]>: > > Thanks for volunteering to be the RM! > > No comment on the timeline; I'm in denial of the time flying. Log4shell and > all that. > > Let's go to Lucene 9.1 and not 9.0. I'm seeing a massive change to > lucene-test-framework in 9.1 on it's way that IMO ought to have been done in > 9.0. Going right to 9.1 averts issues there for Solr users writing plugins. > > You're right RE blockers -- it's always tough to let go of our > ideals/hopes/dreams on what we want 9.0 to be. > > ~ David Smiley > Apache Lucene/Solr Search Developer > http://www.linkedin.com/in/davidwsmiley > <http://www.linkedin.com/in/davidwsmiley> > > On Tue, Dec 21, 2021 at 10:57 AM Jan Høydahl <[email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: > Hi, > > Solr's next feature release will be 9.0 (as 8x is in bugfix mode). > Let's not even think about hacking an 8.12 release based on lucene-solr 8x > branch. It will be ugly. > > The "Solr 9.0 release blockers" thread > <https://lists.apache.org/thread/m7k2gvgxldkns7jqjnw1ghhqx7s3tpl1> was > started exactly 2 months ago to try to prepare us. But we're moving slowly. > The same happened for Lucene, until the 9.0 release :) So I'll start the > train right now... > > I propose the following rough roadmap: > > December: Cut branch_9x next week and enter feature freeze on that branch > January: Remove blockers, prepare build & release machinery, including Docker > February: Cut branch_9_0 and build RC1 - branch_9x is again re-opened for new > features > > I volunteer as RM. > > Wrt blockers, we need to be tough on ourselves and ask the question "Is it > possible to release 9.0 without this?".. > At the end of January we should have only a few real blockers left, that are > all actively in progress. > The delay between branch_9x and branch_9_0 is to avoid having to backport > everything twice during the hardening phase. > > Jan >
