Re: Lucene 9.8 Release

[Patrick Zhai]

Hi all,
Here's the draft release note:
https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/LUCENE/Draft+Release+Notes+9.8

Please feel free to edit if you feel like to add anything

Best
Patrick

On Tue, Sep 19, 2023 at 12:05 AM Adrien Grand  wrote:

> Thanks Patrick, this PR is now merged.
>
> On Tue, Sep 19, 2023 at 6:22 AM Patrick Zhai  wrote:
> >
> > Update:
> > Will wait https://github.com/apache/lucene/pull/12568 to be merged to
> cut the branch
> >
> >
> > On Mon, Sep 18, 2023 at 11:00 AM Michael Sokolov 
> wrote:
> >>
> >> +1 for a release soon, and thanks for volunteering, Patrick!
> >>
> >> On Tue, Sep 12, 2023 at 2:08 AM Patrick Zhai 
> wrote:
> >> >
> >> > Hi all,
> >> > It's been a while since the last release and we have quite a few good
> changes including new APIs, improvements and bug fixes. Should we release
> the 9.8?
> >> >
> >> > If there's no objections I volunteer to be the release manager and
> will cut the feature branch a week from now, which is Sep. 18th PST.
> >> >
> >> > Best
> >> > Patrick
> >>
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Sitemap to get latest reference manual to rank in Google/Bing?

[Walter Underwood]

When I get web search results that include the Solr Reference Guide, I often 
get older versions (6.6, 7.4) in the results. I would prefer to always get the 
latest reference (https://solr.apache.org/guide/solr/latest/index.html).

I think we can list the URLs for that in a sitemap.xml file with a higher 
priority to suggest to the crawlers that these are the preferred pages.

I don’t see a sitemap.xml or sitemap.xml.gz at https://solr.apached.org 
.

Should we prefer the latest manual? How do we build/deploy a sitemap? See: 
https://www.sitemaps.org/

wunder
Walter Underwood
wun...@wunderwood.org
http://observer.wunderwood.org/  (my blog)

New branch and feature freeze for Lucene 9.8.0

[Patrick Zhai]

NOTICE:

Branch branch_9_8 has been cut and versions updated to 9.9 on stable branch.

Please observe the normal rules:

* No new features may be committed to the branch.
* Documentation patches, build patches and serious bug fixes may be
  committed to the branch. However, you should submit all patches you
  want to commit as pull requests first to give others the chance to review
  and possibly vote against them. Keep in mind that it is our
  main intention to keep the branch as stable as possible.
* All patches that are intended for the branch should first be committed
  to the unstable branch, merged into the stable branch, and then into
  the current release branch.
* Normal unstable and stable branch development may continue as usual.
  However, if you plan to commit a big change to the unstable branch
  while the branch feature freeze is in effect, think twice: can't the
  addition wait a couple more days? Merges of bug fixes into the branch
  may become more difficult.
* Only Github issues with Milestone 9.8
  and priority "Blocker" will delay a release candidate build.