can we leave it in svn, but drop it from the release? logistically, what is the best way to do this? Make a branch now, remove it from /trunk, after release copy it from the branch back into /trunk?
That seems like the best way to kick the can down the road. I agree an off-the-shelf apache license jquery client is great. ryan On Mon, Sep 28, 2009 at 9:13 PM, Grant Ingersoll <gsing...@apache.org> wrote: > Moving to GPL doesn't seem like a good solution to me, but I don't know what > else to propose. Why don't we just hold it from this release, but keep it > in trunk and encourage the Drupal guys and others to submit their changes? > Perhaps by then Matthias or you or someone else will have stepped up. > > On Sep 28, 2009, at 7:27 PM, Ryan McKinley 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 >>> >>> > > -------------------------- > Grant Ingersoll > http://www.lucidimagination.com/ > > Search the Lucene ecosystem (Lucene/Solr/Nutch/Mahout/Tika/Droids) using > Solr/Lucene: > http://www.lucidimagination.com/search > >
