Hi, It now seems as if Solr 9.0.0-RC3 vote will succeed later tonight.
However, as Easter holiday is coming up I'll be unavailable from tomorrow until Friday next week, which is unfortunate timing. Solr 9.0.0 cannot be released and announced until at least the ref-guide is done. Some blockers remain: https://issues.apache.org/jira/issues/?filter=12351219 <https://issues.apache.org/jira/issues/?filter=12351219> Ad-hoc list of remaining tasks, mainly ref-guide related: - Major Changes page is in-flight but lots of work left in: https://github.com/apache/solr/pull/769 <https://github.com/apache/solr/pull/769> - System requirements page updates being merged today https://github.com/apache/solr/pull/795 <https://github.com/apache/solr/pull/795> - jdbc() stream docs removed being merged today https://github.com/apache/solr/pull/788 <https://github.com/apache/solr/pull/788> - SOLR-15557 for ref-guide redirects almost done in https://github.com/apache/solr/pull/596 <https://github.com/apache/solr/pull/596> - Need to remove Lucene/Solr language across the entire guide (no jira, discovered this yesterday) - SOLR-15941 I think, is about getting Jenkins to publish the RefGuide to svn for us? - The Docker image release can be done semi manually this first time? But more automation, repos and plumbing needed. - The ReleaseNotes at https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=199540620 <https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=199540620> got a lot of edits and feedback but needs a finishing touch And of course all the remaining RM steps about website, JIRA, DOAP etc I realize that all of this will not happen today or before I leave for holiday. So my proposal is that you guys fix all of the above while I'm away and then I come back and push the "Send" buttton :-) Well that was a joke, but delaying the official release until end of next week may be the most realistic way forward. Another option is to release the binaries without a RefGuide and Docker Image. I'm not a big fan of that, or that another committer take over as RM, which would keep the pressure up and secure the release a few days earlier than what I can promise. Jan
