Re: Lucene 3.3 release soon?

2011-06-21 Thread johnmunir
-1 on release early often. Let us say you average 6-8 releases a month, this means there will be that many versions used by users. Which means the amount of testing done on a release (by real users, in real environment) will be spread thin thus a release will not get the same amount of

Re: Lucene 3.3 release soon?

2011-06-21 Thread johnmunir
My bad, I meant to say a “6-8 releases a year” .. grrr!! So let me try this again. I don't like the current plan of release early often because: So let me try this again. I don't like the current plan of release early often because: 1) It will spread testing thin of any release because

Re: tentative! release notes drafts

2011-06-03 Thread johnmunir
Hi, Looking at http://wiki.apache.org/lucene-java/ReleaseNote32, the item: * A new IndexUpgrader tool fully converts an old index to the current format. Where can I learn more about this? Is this for upgrading the Lucene index from Lucene 2.1 to 3.2 due to the analyze change? My

Re: tentative! release notes drafts

2011-06-03 Thread johnmunir
So, in my case, upgrading from Solr 1.2 to 3.2, I must re-index. OK, I got that, thanks. Btw, where can I learn more about the new IndexUpgrader tool? Is there a doc/wiki for it? -JM -Original Message- From: Uwe Schindler u...@thetaphi.de To: dev@lucene.apache.org Sent: Fri, Jun

Upgrading from Solr 1.2 to 3.1/2 (was: Re: tentative! release notes drafts)

2011-06-03 Thread johnmunir
I'm confused. So, if I'm upgrading from Solr 1.2 to 3.2 and I don't change my analyzer type=index and analyzer type=query sections, I don't have to re-index my data?! I was told otherwise (i'm trying to find that post) because the analyzers have changed. In case it matters, i'm using

Re: [VOTE] Release Lucene/Solr 3.2.0

2011-05-28 Thread johnmunir
Too many releases maybe a bad idea, not only will there be too many questions to users such as what version are you using, have you tried version X, the latest, etc. but you may lose your trust with some of the more serious organizations who see stability ahead of frequent releases. -JM