Thanks for doing the 8.11.4 release Houston. I agree it is time to drop 8.x support. Users have had a LONG time to consider upgrading to 9.0, 9.1, 9.2, 9.3, 9.4, 9.5, 9.6, 9.7, so I see no problem in simply announcing today that 8.11.4 is the LAST 8.x release, and officially EOL. If we released 10.0.0 tomorrow, that would end 8.x support the same day. No different effect, just another EOL "trigger" this time.
Perhaps we need an official [VOTE] thread before the announce? Jan > 11. sep. 2024 kl. 21:52 skrev Anshum Gupta <ans...@apache.org>: > > Thanks for bringing this up, Houston. > > I agree that we need to stop officially supporting Lucene and Solr 8x > releases and communicate that to the community. This would be inline with > the direction we should be taking for aligning with CRA and other such > legislations but also for allowing for more reasonable maintainability of > our project. > > I would however suggest that we give our users a time window to plan. I > suggest we drop support on the 1st of Jan, 2025, giving users 3+ months to > plan. This in no way implies that they wouldn't be able to download but > only that there would be no patching and releasing of 8x line after that > date. > > -Anshum > > On Wed, Aug 28, 2024 at 8:24 AM Houston Putman <hous...@apache.org> wrote: > >> Hello everyone, >> >> Just wanted to post a notification that *we will likely be having an 8.11.4 >> release*, and unless someone wants to volunteer themselves, I'll probably >> be handling it. So everyone get in the things you think need to be included >> in the next week or so (to lucene-solr/branch_8_11). >> >> Other than that, let's talk about the future of Solr 8. It's been around 3 >> years since Solr 9 was released I think? The build and release process is >> quite different, which in part makes it quite hard to maintain at this >> point. We are a set of volunteers, so we should say that we only support >> what we can realistically support. *After this release, I suggest that on >> our website we should drop support for Solr 8 (and therefore only support >> Solr 9 until Solr 10 comes out).* >> >> I don't think we should make a giant shift in our support story, but this >> is a fairly special case. Not often will we do a giant shift of our github >> repos and build infrastructure in the same major release. So I'm not >> particularly worried about this being a slippery slope. But we should be >> honest about the support users are getting, and the efforts that we are >> able to put in. >> >> - Houston >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@solr.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@solr.apache.org
