my main concern with the alpha is the lucene index format logic. This gets fairly messy and doing this for 4.x actually caused backwards compatibility bugs.
If we can avoid alpha/beta releases it would be really nice. On Tue, Jan 6, 2015 at 2:48 PM, Anshum Gupta <[email protected]> wrote: > I'd like to suggest that we call the next release 5.0 alpha and follow it > with either 5.0 or 5.0 beta (if need be) on the lines of the 4x releases. > > As for the history behind calling it that, here's a post about the 4.0 alpha > release that should clarify things I'm thinking about. > > http://lucidworks.com/blog/4-0-alpha-whats-in-a-name/ > > Again, this would be a stable, production release. Like all other public > releases but would give us the freedom to change APIs that need to be > changed. > > Thoughts? > > -- > Anshum Gupta > http://about.me/anshumgupta --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
