Re: Solr NightlyBuild

2006-10-10 Thread Doug Cutting
Chris Hostetter wrote: It's easy to imagine a world in which... * Solr nightly builds are only generated on days when changes are commited, reducing the total number of builds. * A permenant archive of all builds is kept (tags would work) * As bugs are reported and test cases are writt

Re: Solr NightlyBuild

2006-10-02 Thread Clay Webster
Hoss, I really like the idea of having and showing votes for nightlys. If the +1/0/-1 was visible with brief comments and referenced with the changelog *wham*, a new class of releasing code. Hell maybe tie in results from unit tests. Of course you can only do away with official releases s

Re: Solr NightlyBuild

2006-09-20 Thread Chris Hostetter
Taking the question of Solr releases in a more philosophical direction... The more I've gotten involved with Lucene and Solr 9and Apache in general) the less I've come to think of "Releases" as entites are really all that beneficial. The Lucene 1.4.3 -> 1.9 -> 2.0 evolution really helped hit hom

Re: Solr NightlyBuild

2006-09-20 Thread Chris Hostetter
: > Being OK with nightly builds means that you need to run your own : > QA on the whole build every time you change. Kinda expensive. : : It is always necessary to do QA. The Solr trunk tends to be modified agreed ... it doesn't mtter how much of a "release" lable a particular build has on it,

Re: Solr NightlyBuild

2006-09-20 Thread Yonik Seeley
On 9/20/06, Mike Klaas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I had thought that "incubation" status of Solr prohibits releases other than nightly builds, but http://incubator.apache.org/guides/releasemanagement.html seems to imply that releases are allowable. I've seen them called different things in the

Re: Solr NightlyBuild

2006-09-20 Thread Mike Klaas
On 9/20/06, Walter Underwood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I agree that a release would be useful for marketing, but I also think it would help exercise the community and the release process. Definitely. It also introduces oni like backward compatibility issues which need thought. Solr trunk cur

Re: Solr NightlyBuild

2006-09-20 Thread Walter Underwood
I agree that a release would be useful for marketing, but I also think it would help exercise the community and the release process. I just discovered Solr on Friday and I've been telling people about it, but every e-mail includes "you need to be OK with nightly builds." Being OK with nightly bui

Re: Solr NightlyBuild

2006-09-20 Thread Mike Klaas
On 9/20/06, Simon Willnauer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hey, the Solr NightlyBuild gives me a very hard time to convince my boss to use Solr at all for many reasons. I guess I can not expect any tags, branches or releases within the next week, right?! Is there any point why no "stable" / release

Re: Solr NightlyBuild

2006-09-20 Thread Yonik Seeley
On 9/20/06, Bill Au <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I don't think you will see a "release" until Solr is out of the incubator. I think we probably should though :-) http://www.nabble.com/Podling-Release-Requirement-%28WAS%3A-Re%3A--VOTE--Graduate-Felix-to-TLP-status%29-tf2265197.html#a6361253 the

Re: Solr NightlyBuild

2006-09-20 Thread Bill Au
All the public web sites listed in the Solr Wiki are using the nightly builds: http://wiki.apache.org/solr/PublicServers I don't think you will see a "release" until Solr is out of the incubator. Bill On 9/20/06, Simon Willnauer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hey, the Solr NightlyBuild gives me