: We've had enough new features to warrant a new release for quite a : while, so I don't think any new big features should be going in unless : they are ready right now.
Looking at the pending issues, the only biggee seems to be SOLR-469, DataImportHandler ... my impression from the list is that it's ready, but that's really a question for Grant. if it takes a few more weeks to get DIH ready, I think holding the release is worth while -- there's a lot of interest in getting this into 1.3. SOLR-303 (Distributed Search) is also still open .. i'm not really clear from the comments what's left for that, but we should either resolve any remaining problems or roll it back to a state where it doesn't adversly affect existing users if it's not ready yet. Everything else on the list seems like they can easily fall into either the "trivial to commit" or "not a big deal to leave out" buckets depending on what kind of time people have -- but setting a cut-off date seems fine. -Hoss
