FWIW: I have not had a chance to review the RC, but.... : Simon and me decided, that we want to have LUCENE-2494 (Modify : ParallelMultiSearcher to use a CompletionService instead of slowly polling : for results) inside Lucene Java 3.0.2. This is an significant performance : improvement. It will not go to 2.9.3, as its Java 1.5 only.
...this doesn't make senes to me. even if this is a rock solid patch, if it's a performance improvement then presumably it's not a bug fix -- in which case it seems like it should wait for a feature release. maybe i'm just missunederstanding the nature of hte issue -- but the goal of bug fix releases should be to fix known bugs that prevent existing client code from functioning, while minimizing the risk of introducing new bugs in existing code that already functions -- making performance iprovements to code that is currently functional risks introducing bugs. -Hoss
