Houston, would you like to start the VOTE? Jan Høydahl
> On 25 Sep 2024, at 18:26, Anshum Gupta <ans...@anshumgupta.net> wrote: > I agree, let's start the vote thread on the Lucene + Solr mailing lists. > >> On Wed, Sep 25, 2024 at 8:03 AM Houston Putman <hous...@apache.org> wrote: >> >> 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 > > > -- > Anshum Gupta --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@solr.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@solr.apache.org
