So, we got 2.4 out of the way (thanks, Mike!) and we have agreed,
pending build releases, that we are ready to move onto 2.9 and then
3.0. Our strategy for this is generally to mark in 2.9 all things
that we want to remove as deprecated, such that one needs to address
the deprecations in order to move up to 3.0. In this case, we are
also moving to Java 1.5 as the base.
I thought I would kick off the discussion with some areas of interest:
1. Splitting Index time Document from Search time Document per Hoss'
ideas on a variety of threads in the past. Something to the gist of
having an InputDocument and an OutputDocument (and maybe an abstract
Document for shared features) such that people wouldn't be confused
about calling index time things on Document during search and vice
versa.
2. Java 1.5 (who knows, maybe by 2020, we can be on 1.6!). This
means we can use Generics, or as I like to call them "Specifics" since
the specifically say what is in the collection as opposed to the
current collections where you can put any generic object in them. :-)
3. Michael B. is proposing a new Token API (but it's back compat.)
4. Mike M. is doing some new flex indexing stuff (but it's back compat.)
5. Is there anything we would need to deprecate now if we were to take
advantage of 1.5 concurrent packages?
6. Local Lucene is of interest to a lot of people. Does it require
anything special in terms of deprecation? (me thinks not)
7. Same goes for the real time stuff, PFOR implementation, column-
stride fields, etc.
8. I think we should do a review of what's open in JIRA again and see
if we can come to conclusions on any of them, such that going into
3.0, JIRA is relatively clean.
9. For 3.0, what cruft from 1.x can we remove from the file format,
since 3.x need not read 1.x format _if_ doing so is advantageous to us?
10. There has been some talk about changing how StandardTokenizer
labels some tokens. What can we do in there to deprecate?
11. Fieldable. Ah, Fieldable. I believe this is going to become an
abstract base class, or go away.
I'm sure I'm missing lots of other things that we've talked about. I
figured I'd start the discussion, and then maybe we can put it on the
wiki and then break it out to JIRA, or even just go from here to
individual JIRA issues.
Personally, I'd like to push towards 2.9 in a fairly short time frame
(in Lucene terms) of something like 3-4 mos, but that's just me.
Thoughts? Please correct me if I misunderstood the process at all.
Forever Herding Cats,
Grant
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