Sounds very reasonable to me. I hate to see the release of 1.4 being hold up by Javascript browsers compatibility issues. Bill
On Mon, Sep 28, 2009 at 7:27 PM, Ryan McKinley <ryan...@gmail.com> wrote: > I just discussed this off-line with Matthias. It does not look like > he has the time to give this much attention now. (nor do I) > > We agreed that the best steps forward are to: > 1. Support the Drupal guys GPL port > 2. Archive the solrjs code to solrstuff.org > 3. Yank solrjs from apache svn (and 1.4 release) > 4. Add links to the drupal code (GPL) and the solrjs archive (Apache) > > Does this sound reasonable to everybody? > > ryan > > > On Mon, Sep 28, 2009 at 1:27 PM, Grant Ingersoll <gsing...@apache.org> > wrote: > > Forwarded with permission from Peter Wolanin on a private thread. > > > > Begin forwarded message: > > > >> From: Peter Wolanin <peter.wola...@acquia.com> > >> Date: September 26, 2009 9:43:23 AM EDT > >> To: Grant Ingersoll <gsing...@apache.org> > >> > >> Subject: Re: 8 for 1.4 > >> > >> I talked to the guys reworking the JS library for Drupal at Drupalcon > >> - they are also having to fork potentially around license as much as > >> anything else, since they'd like to distribute via drupal.org, which > >> means they were hoping to get the original author to re-license the > >> code to them as GPL. > >> > >> -Peter > >> > >> On Fri, Sep 25, 2009 at 4:45 PM, Grant Ingersoll <gsing...@apache.org> > >> wrote: > >>> > >>> Argh, this was meant for solr-dev. > >>> > >>> Begin forwarded message: > >>> > >>>> From: Grant Ingersoll <gsing...@apache.org> > >>>> Date: September 25, 2009 1:34:32 PM EDT > >>>> To: solr-u...@lucene.apache.org > >>>> Subject: 8 for 1.4 > >>>> Reply-To: solr-u...@lucene.apache.org > >>>> > >>>> Y'all, > >>>> > >>>> We're down to 8 open issues: > >>>> > >>>> > https://issues.apache.org/jira/secure/BrowseVersion.jspa?id=12310230&versionId=12313351&showOpenIssuesOnly=true > >>>> > >>>> 2 are packaging related, one is dependent on the official 2.9 release > >>>> (so > >>>> should be taken care of today or tomorrow I suspect) and then we have > a > >>>> few > >>>> others. > >>>> > >>>> The only two somewhat major ones are S-1458, S-1294 (more on this in a > >>>> mo') and S-1449. > >>>> > >>>> On S-1294, the SolrJS patch, I yet again have concerns about even > >>>> including this, given the lack of activity (from Matthias, the > original > >>>> author and others) and the fact that some in the Drupal community have > >>>> already forked this to fix the various bugs in it instead of just > >>>> submitting > >>>> patches. While I really like the idea of this library (jQuery is > >>>> awesome), > >>>> I have yet to see interest in the community to maintain it (unless you > >>>> count > >>>> someone forking it and fixing the bugs in the fork as maintenance) and > >>>> I'll > >>>> be upfront in admitting I have neither the time nor the patience to > >>>> debug > >>>> Javascript across the gazillions of browsers out there (I don't even > >>>> have IE > >>>> on my machine unless you count firing up a VM w/ XP on it) in the > wild. > >>>> Given what I know of most of the other committers here, I suspect > that > >>>> is > >>>> true for others too. At a minimum, I think S-1294 should be pushed to > >>>> 1.5. > >>>> Next up, I think we consider pulling SolrJS from the release, but > >>>> keeping > >>>> it in trunk and officially releasing it with either 1.5 or 1.4.1, > >>>> assuming > >>>> its gotten some love in the meantime. If by then it has no love, I > vote > >>>> we > >>>> remove it and let the fork maintain it and point people there. > >>>> > >>>> -Grant > >>> > >>> > >>> > >> > >> > >> > >> -- > >> Peter M. Wolanin, Ph.D. > >> Momentum Specialist, Acquia. Inc. > >> peter.wola...@acquia.com > > > > -------------------------- > > Grant Ingersoll > > http://www.lucidimagination.com/ > > > > Search the Lucene ecosystem (Lucene/Solr/Nutch/Mahout/Tika/Droids) using > > Solr/Lucene: > > http://www.lucidimagination.com/search > > > > >
