Hello,
----- Original Message ---- > From: Yonik Seeley <yo...@lucidimagination.com> > To: solr-dev@lucene.apache.org > Sent: Thursday, June 25, 2009 1:41:39 PM > Subject: Re: lucene releases vs trunk > > On Thu, Jun 25, 2009 at 1:29 PM, Chris > Hostetterwrote: > > : This proposal was just for the next (1.5?) release cycle though. > > ... > > : I agree though - there is rapid movement in Lucene these days, and things > can > > : be pulled back or altered fairly easily during trunk dev. Sometimes even > index > > : format changing issues - which can be a real pain (having suffered that > first > > : hand in the past). The closer we can stay to actual Lucene releases in > > : general, the better I think. > > > > I suggest we not worry about it too much until the situation arrises. > > I'm calling attention to it because I don't believe the move to > 2.9-dev was ever discussed on solr-dev. > AFAIK it was committed as part of SOLR-805... something I missed, and > I doubt I'm the only one. > > The default should be to use released Lucene versions, and we should > reluctantly move off of that. > > > Once upon a time the decision to bump the lucene-java rev in Solr was > > drien largely based on wether we people that that version was had useful > > additions *and* was relatively "solid". My impression more recently is > > that people have been bumping the rev primarily with the > > features/improvements in mind, and less consideration of the stability > > probably due to the (completely valid) assumption that solr trunk doesn't > > *need* to be any more stable then the lucene-java trunk, so we might as > > well go ahead and rev and help shake things out. > > Right - if we're relatively sure that a Lucene release is imminent > (and will happen before a Solr release), it's not such a bad idea to > upgrade. Aha, so this makes sense. Stick with the stable version until we see Lucene is preparing for a release. Then upgrade to the latest (nightly) Lucene and catch up with the goal of releasing Solr not too long after Lucene has been released. Like that? Otis -- Sematext -- http://sematext.com/ -- Lucene - Solr - Nutch
