Yeah I agree with Jan, just say this is the last release, so it is EOL. Users have had enough time, they don't need an additional 3 months. And Jan is perfectly right, 10.0.0 could have been released tomorrow and they would be in the exact same state.
I think an official [VOTE] thread would probably be a good idea. - Houston On Wed, Sep 25, 2024 at 9:01 AM Jan Høydahl <jan....@cominvent.com> wrote: > 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 > >
