+1 to have a 5.5 release.
On Thu, Jan 21, 2016 at 10:12 PM, Erick Erickson <[email protected]> wrote: > I like the idea of doing a 5.5 Git-based release, your points about > separating the pain of the first Git build and a major release are > well taken, thanks for thinking about it! > > My only comment is that 5.5 coming just a few days after 5.4.x seems > pretty short, but maybe it'll take a month to get the first Git build > ironed out anyway... > > As always, though, when I'm not doing the work so it's not my decision. > > On Thu, Jan 21, 2016 at 5:46 AM, [email protected] > <[email protected]> wrote: > > +1 fine idea Rob! > > > > On Thu, Jan 21, 2016 at 2:18 AM Robert Muir <[email protected]> wrote: > >> > >> one idea, we could use it to our advantage: as soon as we go to git, > >> immediately (e.g. after just a few days or whatever) start a 5.5 > >> release? > >> > >> besides keeping things less confusing, it could make the 6.0 release > >> more easygoing. because we'd have already worked through the pain of > >> release process and tooling changes with a technically "easier" > >> release otherwise. IMO basically a major release is hard enough on its > >> own, we might want to separate the two things... > >> > >> basically we'd suffer the one-time pain of "first git release" > >> immediately up-front, when svn->git is fresh in our minds. after that > >> first release its on the wiki and no big deal... > >> > >> guess there are downsides to this idea too, e.g. it'd be effort that > >> could be spent on 6.0, having to backport git build system changes to > >> 5.x, etc. > >> > >> On Wed, Jan 20, 2016 at 6:58 PM, Shawn Heisey <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> > All indications I've seen are that there will be no 5.5 release, that > >> > once > >> > the git transition is complete, the focus will be on stabilizing the > 6.0 > >> > release. Is this a correct statement? There are quite a lot of > things > >> > mentioned in the 5.5 section of CHANGES.txt, plenty for a minor > release. > >> > > >> > If we are abandoning work on branch_5x, I am OK with it, I'm just > >> > looking > >> > for information. > >> > > >> > Thanks, > >> > Shawn > >> > > >> > > >> > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > >> > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] > >> > For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] > >> > > >> > >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- > >> To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] > >> For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] > >> > > -- > > Lucene/Solr Search Committer, Consultant, Developer, Author, Speaker > > LinkedIn: http://linkedin.com/in/davidwsmiley | Book: > > http://www.solrenterprisesearchserver.com > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] > For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] > > -- Regards, Varun Thacker
