I organized existing items of the Lucene release notes into sections
and added a new item about FeatureField,
LongPoint#newDistanceFeatureQuery and
LatLonPoint#newDistanceFeatureQuery.

On Tue, Mar 12, 2019 at 5:54 PM Alan Woodward <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Jim and I have created wiki pages for the 8.0 release highlights here:
> https://wiki.apache.org/solr/ReleaseNote80
> https://wiki.apache.org/lucene-java/ReleaseNote80
>
> Feel free to edit and improve them - the Solr one in particular could do with 
> some beefing up.
>
>
> On 20 Feb 2019, at 11:37, Noble Paul <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> I'm committing them,
> Thanks Ishan
>
> On Wed, Feb 20, 2019 at 8:38 PM Alan Woodward <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>
> Awesome, thank you Ishan!
>
> On 20 Feb 2019, at 09:15, Ishan Chattopadhyaya <[email protected]> 
> wrote:
>
> Would anyone like to volunteer to be release manager for 7.7.1?
>
> I can volunteer for 7.7.1. I'll start as soon as both these issues are 
> committed.
>
> On Tue, Feb 19, 2019 at 9:18 PM Alan Woodward <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>
> We have two Solr issues that are serious enough to warrant a 7.7.1 release: 
> SOLR-13248 and SOLR-13255.  Given our backwards-compatibility guarantees, we 
> should do this release before we restart the 8.0.0 process.
>
> Would anyone like to volunteer to be release manager for 7.7.1?  Ideally we 
> would get this done quickly so that I can continue releasing 8.0.0.
>
> On 14 Feb 2019, at 20:37, Mikhail Khludnev <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> On Thu, Feb 14, 2019 at 10:08 PM Mikhail Khludnev <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>
> Thank you, Alan. Give me an hour.
>
> чт, 14 февр. 2019 г., 20:59 Alan Woodward [email protected]:
>
>
> OK, let’s do an RC2.  When do you think you can have a fix in?
>
> Mikhail, will you be able to get your fix in soon as well?
>
>
>
> Nope. Don't wait for SOLR-13126, it turns to be more complicated.
>
>
>
> On 14 Feb 2019, at 14:34, Shalin Shekhar Mangar <[email protected]> 
> wrote:
>
> Hi Alan,
>
> There is a work-around which is to change the default to using legacy 
> assignment using cluster properties. But I don't like the idea of releasing 
> something that we know is broken and asking everyone to set a cluster 
> property to workaround it. I'd rather just rollback the commits that caused 
> the problem and then release 8.0
>
> On Thu, Feb 14, 2019 at 7:11 PM Alan Woodward <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>
> Hi Shalin,
>
> I'm not familiar with this bit of code - is there a workaround available?  ie 
> a way of using a different replica placement strategy when creating a 
> collection?  If there is, I'd be tempted to continue with the vote as is and 
> then do an immediate 8.0.1 release once you have things fixed, particularly 
> if we’re going to require a 7.7.1 as well.
>
> On 14 Feb 2019, at 12:45, Shalin Shekhar Mangar <[email protected]> 
> wrote:
>
> Hi Alan,
>
> I opened SOLR-13248 a few minutes ago. It is a bad bug that should be a 
> blocker for 8.0 and might require a bug fix 7.7.1 release as well. In the 
> interest of time, I propose rolling back SOLR-12739 which caused these 
> issues. We can re-introduce it with proper fixes for the related issues in 
> 8.1.
>
> On Thu, Feb 14, 2019 at 3:45 PM Alan Woodward <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>
> The release candidate has already been built and voting is in progress, so 
> it’s missed the boat unless there’s a respin.  It does look like a nasty bug 
> though, so if you have a fix then feel free too commit it to the 8_0 branch 
> in case we do an 8.0.1 release.
>
> On 14 Feb 2019, at 09:35, Mikhail Khludnev <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Does https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SOLR-13126 fit for 8_0 ?
>
> On Thu, Feb 14, 2019 at 11:00 AM Alan Woodward <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>
> I have no problem with bug-fixes and ref-guide changes on the 8_0 branch.
>
> On 13 Feb 2019, at 22:25, Cassandra Targett <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> I’ll let Alan reply definitively, but IMO if branch_8_0 is closed even to Ref 
> Guide-only commits, we’re not going to have an 8.0 Ref Guide at all since 
> there’s a lot of editing yet to be done for it.
>
> Cassandra
> On Feb 13, 2019, 4:20 PM -0600, David Smiley <[email protected]>, 
> wrote:
>
> I've been shepherding https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SOLR-13129 which 
> only touches the Solr Ref Guide.  Could the Ref Guide for 8.0 include this 
> even if it's committed after the 8.0 for the code?  I could avoid touching 
> CHANGES.txt if that helps (it'd be of dubious value to users browsing the 
> change list any way).
>
> On Wed, Feb 13, 2019 at 11:43 AM Alan Woodward <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>
> Thanks for letting me know Jason.  Your commit will have missed the cut, yes, 
> but I don’t think it matters that much.  It will get picked up in a respin or 
> in any subsequent bug-fix release, and if RC1 passes the vote then we can 
> just alter CHANGES.txt
>
>
> On 13 Feb 2019, at 16:27, Jason Gerlowski <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Hey Alan,
>
> I just committed a minor inconsequential bugfix
> (1b6c8fa95ba8c5b0646f599132c8ffd20c697e72) to branch_8_0.  I didn't
> realize I was cutting it so close to your work on cutting RC1, but
> from commits I see you made this morning preparing for the RC I
> suspect I cut things _very_ close and just missed it.
>
> Hopefully my ill-timed commit to branch_8_0 doesn't create any
> problems for you on the release end.  I'm happy to do whatever's
> easiest for you regarding that commit.  It'd be nice to have it
> included in 8.0, but it's not imperative by any means if I've already
> missed the first RC, or it's easier for you to omit from potential
> subsequent RCs.  Let me know if there's anything you'd like me to do
> (revert it, etc.).  At a minimum if it doesn't make 8.0 I'll need to
> go back and update CHANGES.txt I think.
>
> Sorry again for the potential complication.  I hate to be "that guy".
> Thanks for stepping up and handling the release.
>
> Best,
>
> Jason
>
> On Wed, Feb 13, 2019 at 4:52 AM jim ferenczi <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>
> Thanks for fixing Cassandra and sorry for the noise. I did this too many 
> times in the past so I just mechanically changed the redirect without 
> thinking of when or if the ref guide was also released.
> I'll be more careful next time ;).
>
> On another note, now that 7.7 is out and that we're preparing the release for 
> 8.0 what do you think of removing/nuking the 7x branch. This was already 
> discussed some time ago https://markmail.org/message/xl7vypkylhmeefhh but I 
> don't think that we reached a consensus and we have maybe new options with 
> the move to gitbox. One option discussed in the thread was to remove all 
> files and add a README that says that this branch is dead. I don't know if 
> it's possible but we could also make the branch protected in gitbox in order 
> to avoid new commits. What do you think ? Should we keep this branch and just 
> consider new commits as useless or should we try to "clean up" all Nx 
> branches that are not active anymore (5x, 6x, 7x) ?
>
> Jim
>
> Le mar. 12 févr. 2019 à 20:25, Cassandra Targett <[email protected]> a 
> écrit :
>
>
> I’d like to remind RMs that when finishing up a release, we can’t just do a 
> blanket find/replace in .htaccess to update the version. If we’re not going 
> to coordinate binary releases with Ref Guide releases, we need to be careful 
> not to change the redirects unless that version’s Ref Guide release is also 
> imminent.
>
> This is noted in the ReleaseToDo 
> (https://wiki.apache.org/lucene-java/ReleaseTodo#Update_redirect_to_latest_Javadoc),
>  but I’ve seen it occur a little too soon for the past few releases…in those 
> cases, the Ref Guide release was pretty close so it didn’t matter that much.
>
> In this case, though, I haven’t had time to do a 7.7 Ref Guide so it doesn’t 
> exist yet (if it will ever be, I’m pretty swamped so someone else needs to 
> maybe take care of it), but all non-version specific Ref Guide link is now 
> being routed to a non-existent 7.7 path. It’s easy to fix, but we have an 
> easy way to avoid routing people to dead links.
>
> Cassandra
> On Feb 8, 2019, 3:58 AM -0600, Alan Woodward <[email protected]>, wrote:
>
> Once 7.7 is out the door, we should get on with releasing 8.0.  I volunteer 
> to be the manager for this round.  My current plan is to build a release 
> candidate early next week, as soon as the 7.7 release has been announced.
>
> On 8 Feb 2019, at 09:07, Alan Woodward <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> It is a shame, I agree, but some of this stuff has been deprecated since 3.6, 
> so another release cycle won’t hurt :). We should prioritise cleaning this 
> stuff up once 8.0 is out of the door though.
>
> On 8 Feb 2019, at 07:27, David Smiley <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Okay.  I suppose the issue is that it's simply too late in the 8.0 cycle to 
> remove things that have been deprecated in previous releases?  
> solr.LatLonType is one example.  It's a shame to keep around such things 
> further.
>
> On Thu, Feb 7, 2019 at 1:03 AM Alan Woodward <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>
> Not quite - the plan is to remove things entirely in 9.0, but we may need to 
> back port some extra deprecations to 8x.  We don’t necessarily need them in 
> 8.0 though - we can deprecate in 8.1 and remove in 9 without any problems.  I 
> opened the issues to ensure that we didn’t keep carrying deprecated code 
> through any further releases.
>
>
> On 7 Feb 2019, at 06:43, David Smiley <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> I want to ensure people are aware of two issues "Remove deprecated code in 
> master" that Alan filed:
>
> https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SOLR-13138
> https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LUCENE-8638
> There's a "master-deprecations" branch as well.
>
> Although both issues are marked "master (9.0)", I think the intent is 
> actually 8.0 so that we are finally rid of the deprecated code?
>
> ~ David
>
> On Sat, Feb 2, 2019 at 7:25 AM Kevin Risden <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>
> SOLR-9515 - Hadoop 3 upgrade has been merged to master, 8x, and 8.0.
> I'm keeping any eye on the builds this weekend but all indications are
> no issues so far.
>
> Kevin Risden
>
> On Fri, Feb 1, 2019 at 2:46 AM Adrien Grand <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>
> Nick, this change seems to be causing test failures. Can you have a look?
>
> See eg. https://builds.apache.org/job/Lucene-Solr-SmokeRelease-8.x/15/console.
>
> On Fri, Feb 1, 2019 at 12:27 AM Nicholas Knize <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>
> Thank you Jim. LUCENE-8669 has been merged.
>
> - Nick
>
> On Wed, Jan 30, 2019 at 1:36 PM jim ferenczi <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>
> Sure Nick, I am not aware of other blockers for 7.7 so I'll start the first 
> RC when your patch is merged.
> Kevin, this looks like a big change so I am not sure if it's a good idea to 
> rush this in for 8.0. Would it be safer to target another version in order to 
> take some time to ensure that it's not breaking anything ? I guess that your 
> concern is that a change like this should happen in a major version but I 
> wonder if it's worth the risk. I don't know this part of the code and the 
> implications of such a change so I let you decide what we should do here but 
> let's not delay the release if we realize that this change requires more than 
> a few days to be merged.
>
> Le mer. 30 janv. 2019 à 20:25, Nicholas Knize <[email protected]> a écrit :
>
>
> Hey Jim,
>
> I just added https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LUCENE-8669 along with a 
> pretty straightforward patch. This is a critical one that I think needs to be 
> in for 7.7 and 8.0. Can I set this as a blocker?
>
> On Wed, Jan 30, 2019 at 1:07 PM
>
> Kevin Risden <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>
> Jim,
>
> Since 7.7 needs to be released before 8.0 does that leave time to get
> SOLR-9515 - Hadoop 3 upgrade into 8.0? I have a PR updated and it is
> currently under review.
>
> Should I set the SOLR-9515 as a blocker for 8.0? I'm curious if others
> feel this should make it into 8.0 or not.
>
> Kevin Risden
>
> On Tue, Jan 29, 2019 at 11:15 AM jim ferenczi <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>
> I had to revert the version bump for 8.0 (8.1) on branch_8x because we don't 
> handle two concurrent releases in our tests 
> (https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LUCENE-8665).
> Since we want to release 7.7 first I created the Jenkins job for this version 
> only and will build the first candidate for this version later this week if 
> there are no objection.
> I'll restore the version bump for 8.0 when 7.7 is out.
>
>
> Le mar. 29 janv. 2019 à 14:43, jim ferenczi <[email protected]> a écrit :
>
>
> Hi,
> Hearing no objection I created the branches for 8.0 and 7.7. I'll now create 
> the Jenkins tasks for these versions, Uwe can you also add them to the 
> Policeman's Jenkins job ?
> This also means that the feature freeze phase has started for both versions 
> (7.7 and 8.0):
>
> No new features may be committed to the branch.
> Documentation patches, build patches and serious bug fixes may be committed 
> to the branch. However, you should submit all patches you want to commit to 
> Jira first to give others the chance to review and possibly vote against the 
> patch. Keep in mind that it is our main intention to keep the branch as 
> stable as possible.
> All patches that are intended for the branch should first be committed to the 
> unstable branch, merged into the stable branch, and then into the current 
> release branch.
> Normal unstable and stable branch development may continue as usual. However, 
> if you plan to commit a big change to the unstable branch while the branch 
> feature freeze is in effect, think twice: can't the addition wait a couple 
> more days? Merges of bug fixes into the branch may become more difficult.
> Only Jira issues with Fix version "X.Y" and priority "Blocker" will delay a 
> release candidate build.
>
>
> Thanks,
> Jim
>
>
> Le lun. 28 janv. 2019 à 13:54, Tommaso Teofili <[email protected]> a 
> écrit :
>
>
> sure, thanks Jim!
>
> Tommaso
>
> Il giorno lun 28 gen 2019 alle ore 10:35 jim ferenczi
> <[email protected]> ha scritto:
>
>
> Go ahead Tommaso the branch is not created yet.
> The plan is to create the branches (7.7 and 8.0)  tomorrow or wednesday and 
> to announce the feature freeze the same day.
> For blocker issues that are still open this leaves another week to work on a 
> patch and we can update the status at the end of the week in order to decide 
> if we can start the first build candidate
> early next week. Would that work for you ?
>
> Le lun. 28 janv. 2019 à 10:19, Tommaso Teofili <[email protected]> a 
> écrit :
>
>
> I'd like to backport https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LUCENE-8659
> (upgrade to OpenNLP 1.9.1) to 8x branch, if there's still time.
>
> Regards,
> Tommaso
>
> Il giorno lun 28 gen 2019 alle ore 07:59 Adrien Grand
> <[email protected]> ha scritto:
>
>
> Hi Noble,
>
> No it hasn't created yet.
>
> On Mon, Jan 28, 2019 at 3:55 AM Noble Paul <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>
> Is the branch already cut for 8.0? which is it?
>
> On Mon, Jan 28, 2019 at 4:03 AM David Smiley <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>
> I finally have a patch up for 
> https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SOLR-12768 (already marked as 8.0 
> blocker) that I feel pretty good about.  This provides a key part of the 
> nested document support.
> I will work on some documentation for it this week -- SOLR-13129
>
> On Fri, Jan 25, 2019 at 3:07 PM Jan Høydahl <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>
> I don't think it is critical for this to be a blocker for 8.0. If it gets 
> fixed in 8.0.1 that's ok too, given this is an ooold bug.
> I think we should simply remove the buffering feature in the UI and replace 
> it with an error message popup or something.
> I'll try to take a look next week.
>
> --
> Jan Høydahl, search solution architect
> Cominvent AS - www.cominvent.com
>
> 25. jan. 2019 kl. 20:39 skrev Tomás Fernández Löbbe <[email protected]>:
>
> I think the UI is an important Solr feature. As long as there is a reasonable 
> time horizon for the issue being resolved I'm +1 on making it a blocker. I'm 
> not familiar enough with the UI code to help either unfortunately.
>
> On Fri, Jan 25, 2019 at 11:24 AM Gus Heck <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>
> It looks like someone tried to make it a blocker once before... And it's 
> actually a duplicate of an earlier issue 
> (https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SOLR-9818). I guess its a question of 
> whether or not overall quality has a bearing on the decision to release. As 
> it turns out the screen shot I posted to the issue is less than half of the 
> shards that eventually got created since there was an outstanding queue of 
> requests still processing at the time. I'm now having to delete 50 or so 
> cores, which luckily are small 100 Mb initial testing cores, not the 20GB 
> cores we'll be testing on in the near future. It more or less makes it 
> impossible to recommend the use of the admin UI for anything other than read 
> only observation of the cluster. Now imagine someone leaves a browser window 
> open and forgets about it rather than browsing away or closing the window, 
> not knowing that it's silently pumping out requests after showing an error... 
> would completely hose a node, and until they tracked down the source of the 
> requests, (hope he didn't go home) it would be impossible to resolve...
>
> On Fri, Jan 25, 2019 at 1:25 PM Adrien Grand <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>
> Releasing a new major is very challenging on its own, I'd rather not
> call it a blocker and delay the release for it since this isn't a new
> regression in 8.0: it looks like a problem that has affected Solr
> since at least 6.3? I'm not familiar with the UI code at all, but
> maybe this is something that could get fixed before we build a RC?
>
>
>
>
> On Fri, Jan 25, 2019 at 6:06 PM Gus Heck <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>
> I'd like to suggest that https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SOLR-10211 be 
> promoted to block 8.0. I just got burned by it a second time.
>
> On Thu, Jan 24, 2019 at 1:05 PM Uwe Schindler <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>
> Cool,
>
> I am working on giving my best release time guess as possible on the FOSDEM 
> conference!
>
> Uwe
>
> -----
> Uwe Schindler
> Achterdiek 19, D-28357 Bremen
> http://www.thetaphi.de
> eMail: [email protected]
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Adrien Grand <[email protected]>
> Sent: Thursday, January 24, 2019 5:33 PM
> To: Lucene Dev <[email protected]>
> Subject: Re: Lucene/Solr 8.0
>
> +1 to release 7.7 and 8.0 in a row starting on the week of February 4th.
>
> On Wed, Jan 23, 2019 at 4:23 PM jim ferenczi <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
>
> Hi,
> As we agreed some time ago I'd like to start on releasing 8.0. The branch is
>
> already created so we can start the process anytime now. Unless there are
> objections I'd like to start the feature freeze next week in order to build 
> the
> first candidate the week after.
>
> We'll also need a 7.7 release but I think we can handle both with Alan so
>
> the question now is whether we are ok to start the release process or if there
> are any blockers left ;).
>
>
>
> Le mar. 15 janv. 2019 à 11:35, Alan Woodward <[email protected]>
>
> a écrit :
>
>
> I’ve started to work through the various deprecations on the new master
>
> branch.  There are a lot of them, and I’m going to need some assistance for
> several of them, as it’s not entirely clear what to do.
>
>
> I’ll open two overarching issues in JIRA, one for lucene and one for Solr,
>
> with lists of the deprecations that need to be removed in each one.  I’ll 
> create
> a shared branch on gitbox to work against, and push the changes I’ve already
> done there.  We can then create individual JIRA issues for any changes that
> are more involved than just deleting code.
>
>
> All assistance gratefully received, particularly for the Solr deprecations
>
> where there’s a lot of code I’m unfamiliar with.
>
>
> On 8 Jan 2019, at 09:21, Alan Woodward <[email protected]>
>
> wrote:
>
>
> I think the current plan is to do a 7.7 release at the same time as 8.0, to
>
> handle any last-minute deprecations etc.  So let’s keep those jobs enabled
> for now.
>
>
> On 8 Jan 2019, at 09:10, Uwe Schindler <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I will start and add the branch_8x jobs to Jenkins once I have some time
>
> later today.
>
>
> The question: How to proceed with branch_7x? Should we stop using it
>
> and release 7.6.x only (so we would use branch_7_6 only for bugfixes), or
> are we planning to one more Lucene/Solr 7.7? In the latter case I would keep
> the jenkins jobs enabled for a while.
>
>
> Uwe
>
> -----
> Uwe Schindler
> Achterdiek 19, D-28357 Bremen
> http://www.thetaphi.de
> eMail: [email protected]
>
> From: Alan Woodward <[email protected]>
> Sent: Monday, January 7, 2019 11:30 AM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: Lucene/Solr 8.0
>
> OK, Christmas caught up with me a bit… I’ve just created a branch for 8x
>
> from master, and am in the process of updating the master branch to version
> 9.  New commits that should be included in the 8.0 release should also be
> back-ported to branch_8x from master.
>
>
> This is not intended as a feature freeze, as I know there are still some
>
> things being worked on for 8.0; however, it should let us clean up master by
> removing as much deprecated code as possible, and give us an idea of any
> replacement work that needs to be done.
>
>
>
> On 19 Dec 2018, at 15:13, David Smiley <[email protected]>
>
> wrote:
>
>
> January.
>
> On Wed, Dec 19, 2018 at 2:04 AM S G <[email protected]>
>
> wrote:
>
>
> It would be nice to see Solr 8 in January soon as there is an enhancement
>
> on nested-documents we are waiting to get our hands on.
>
> Any idea when Solr 8 would be out ?
>
> Thx
> SG
>
> On Mon, Dec 17, 2018 at 1:34 PM David Smiley
>
> <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>
> I see 10 JIRA issues matching this filter:   project in (SOLR, LUCENE) AND
>
> priority = Blocker and status = open and fixVersion = "master (8.0)"
>
>  click here:
>
> https://issues.apache.org/jira/issues/?jql=project%20in%20(SOLR%2C%20LU
> CENE)%20AND%20priority%20%3D%20Blocker%20and%20status%20%3D%2
> 0open%20and%20fixVersion%20%3D%20%22master%20(8.0)%22%20
>
>
> Thru the end of the month, I intend to work on those issues not yet
>
> assigned.
>
>
> On Mon, Dec 17, 2018 at 4:51 AM Adrien Grand <[email protected]>
>
> wrote:
>
>
> +1
>
> On Mon, Dec 17, 2018 at 10:38 AM Alan Woodward
>
> <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>
> Hi all,
>
> Now that 7.6 is out of the door (thanks Nick!) we should think about
>
> cutting the 8.0 branch and moving master to 9.0.  I’ll volunteer to create the
> branch this week - say Wednesday?  Then we should have some time to
> clean up the master branch and uncover anything that still needs to be done
> on 8.0 before we start the release process next year.
>
>
> On 22 Oct 2018, at 18:12, Cassandra Targett <[email protected]>
>
> wrote:
>
>
> I'm a bit delayed, but +1 on the 7.6 and 8.0 plan from me too.
>
> On Fri, Oct 19, 2018 at 7:18 AM Erick Erickson
>
> <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>
> +1, this gives us all a chance to prioritize getting the blockers out
> of the way in a careful manner.
> On Fri, Oct 19, 2018 at 7:56 AM jim ferenczi <[email protected]>
>
> wrote:
>
>
> +1 too. With this new perspective we could create the branch just
>
> after the 7.6 release and target the 8.0 release for January 2019 which gives
> almost 3 month to finish the blockers ?
>
>
> Le jeu. 18 oct. 2018 à 23:56, David Smiley
>
> <[email protected]> a écrit :
>
>
> +1 to a 7.6 —lots of stuff in there
> On Thu, Oct 18, 2018 at 4:47 PM Nicholas Knize
>
> <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>
> If we're planning to postpone cutting an 8.0 branch until a few
>
> weeks from now then I'd like to propose (and volunteer to RM) a 7.6 release
> targeted for late November or early December (following the typical 2 month
> release pattern). It feels like this might give a little breathing room for
> finishing up 8.0 blockers? And looking at the change log there appear to be a
> healthy list of features, bug fixes, and improvements to both Solr and Lucene
> that warrant a 7.6 release? Personally I wouldn't mind releasing the
> LatLonShape encoding changes in LUCENE-8521 and selective indexing work
> done in LUCENE-8496. Any objections or thoughts?
>
>
> - Nick
>
>
> On Thu, Oct 18, 2018 at 5:32 AM Đạt Cao Mạnh
>
> <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>
> Thanks Cassandra and Jim,
>
> I created a blocker issue for Solr 8.0 SOLR-12883, currently in
>
> jira/http2 branch there are a draft-unmature implementation of SPNEGO
> authentication which enough to makes the test pass, this implementation will
> be removed when SOLR-12883 gets resolved . Therefore I don't see any
> problem on merging jira/http2 to master branch in the next week.
>
>
> On Thu, Oct 18, 2018 at 2:33 AM jim ferenczi
>
> <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>
> But if you're working with a different assumption - that just the
>
> existence of the branch does not stop Dat from still merging his work and the
> work being included in 8.0 - then I agree, waiting for him to merge doesn't
> need to stop the creation of the branch.
>
>
> Yes that's my reasoning. This issue is a blocker so we won't
>
> release without it but we can work on the branch in the meantime and let
> other people work on new features that are not targeted to 8.
>
>
> Le mer. 17 oct. 2018 à 20:51, Cassandra Targett
>
> <[email protected]> a écrit :
>
>
> OK - I was making an assumption that the timeline for the first
>
> 8.0 RC would be ASAP after the branch is created.
>
>
> It's a common perception that making a branch freezes adding
>
> new features to the release, perhaps in an unofficial way (more of a courtesy
> rather than a rule). But if you're working with a different assumption - that
> just the existence of the branch does not stop Dat from still merging his work
> and the work being included in 8.0 - then I agree, waiting for him to merge
> doesn't need to stop the creation of the branch.
>
>
> If, however, once the branch is there people object to Dat
>
> merging his work because it's "too late", then the branch shouldn't be
> created yet because we want to really try to clear that blocker for 8.0.
>
>
> Cassandra
>
> On Wed, Oct 17, 2018 at 12:13 PM jim ferenczi
>
> <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>
> Ok thanks for answering.
>
> - I think Solr needs a couple more weeks since the work Dat
>
> is doing isn't quite done yet.
>
>
> We can wait a few more weeks to create the branch but I
>
> don't think that one action (creating the branch) prevents the other (the
> work Dat is doing).
>
> HTTP/2 is one of the blocker for the release but it can be done
>
> in master and backported to the appropriate branch as any other feature ?
> We just need an issue with the blocker label to ensure that
>
> we don't miss it ;). Creating the branch early would also help
>
> in case you don't want to release all the work at once in 8.0.0.
>
> Next week was just a proposal, what I meant was soon
>
> because we target a release in a few months.
>
>
>
> Le mer. 17 oct. 2018 à 17:52, Cassandra Targett
>
> <[email protected]> a écrit :
>
>
> IMO next week is a bit too soon for the branch - I think Solr
>
> needs a couple more weeks since the work Dat is doing isn't quite done yet.
>
>
> Solr needs the HTTP/2 work Dat has been doing, and he told
>
> me yesterday he feels it is nearly ready to be merged into master. However,
> it does require a new release of Jetty to Solr is able to retain Kerberos
> authentication support (Dat has been working with that team to help test the
> changes Jetty needs to support Kerberos with HTTP/2). They should get that
> release out soon, but we are dependent on them a little bit.
>
>
> He can hopefully reply with more details on his status and
>
> what else needs to be done.
>
>
> Once Dat merges his work, IMO we should leave it in master
>
> for a little bit. While he has been beasting and testing with Jenkins as he 
> goes
> along, I think it would be good to have all the regular master builds work on
> it for a little bit also.
>
>
> Of the other blockers, the only other large-ish one is to fully
>
> remove Trie* fields, which some of us also discussed yesterday and it
> seemed we concluded that Solr isn't really ready to do that. The performance
> issues with single value lookups are a major obstacle. It would be nice if
> someone with a bit more experience with that could comment in the issue
> (SOLR-12632) and/or unmark it as a blocker.
>
>
> Cassandra
>
> On Wed, Oct 17, 2018 at 8:38 AM Erick Erickson
>
> <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>
> I find 9 open blockers for 8.0:
>
>
> https://issues.apache.org/jira/issues/?jql=project%20%3D%20SOLR%20AND
> %20priority%20%3D%20Blocker%20AND%20status%20%3D%20OPEN
>
>
> As David mentioned, many of the SOlr committers are at
>
> Activate, which
>
> ends Thursday so feedback (and work) may be a bit
>
> delayed.
>
> On Wed, Oct 17, 2018 at 8:11 AM David Smiley
>
> <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>
> Hi,
>
> Thanks for volunteering to do the 8.0 release Jim!
>
> Many of us are at the Activate Conference in Montreal.
>
> We had a committers meeting where we discussed some of the blockers.  I
> think only a couple items were raised.  I'll leave Dat to discuss the one on
> HTTP2.  On the Solr nested docs front, I articulated one and we mostly came
> to a decision on how to do it.  It's not "hard" just a matter of how to hook 
> in
> some functionality so that it's user-friendly.  I'll file an issue for this.
> Inexplicably I'm sheepish about marking issues "blocker" but I shouldn't be.
> I'll file that issue and look at another issue or two that ought to be 
> blockers.
> Nothing is "hard" or tons of work that is in my sphere of work.
>
>
> On the Lucene side, I will commit
>
> https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LUCENE-7875 RE MultiFields either
> late tonight or tomorrow when I have time.  It's ready to be committed; just
> sitting there.  It's a minor thing but important to make this change now
> before 8.0.
>
>
> I personally plan to spend more time on the upcoming
>
> weeks on a few of these 8.0 things.
>
>
> ~ David
>
>
> On Wed, Oct 17, 2018 at 4:21 AM jim ferenczi
>
> <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>
> Hi,
> We still have two blockers for the Lucene 8 release:
> https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LUCENE-
>
> 7075?jql=(project%3D%22Lucene%20-
> %20Core%22%20%20OR%20project%3DSOLR)%20AND%20priority%3DBlocke
> r%20and%20resolution%20%3D%20Unresolved%20
>
> We're planning to work on these issues in the coming
>
> days, are there any other blockers (not in the list) on Solr side.
>
> Now that Lucene 7.5 is released I'd like to create a
>
> Lucene 8 branch soon (next week for instance ? ). There are some work to do
> to make sure that all tests pass, add the new version...
>
> I can take care of it if there are no objections. Creating
>
> the branch in advance would help to stabilize this version (people can
> continue to work on new features that are not targeted for 8.0) and
>
> we can discuss the best date for the release when all
>
> blockers are resolved. What do you think ?
>
>
>
>
> Le mar. 18 sept. 2018 à 11:32, Adrien Grand
>
> <[email protected]> a écrit :
>
>
> Đạt, is https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SOLR-
>
> 12639 the right issue for HTTP/2 support? Should we make it a blocker for
> 8.0?
>
>
> Le lun. 3 sept. 2018 à 23:37, Adrien Grand
>
> <[email protected]> a écrit :
>
>
> For the record here is the JIRA query for blockers that
>
> Erick referred to: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SOLR-
> 12720?jql=(project%3D%22Lucene%20-
> %20Core%22%20%20OR%20project%3DSOLR)%20AND%20priority%3DBlocke
> r%20and%20resolution%20%3D%20Unresolved%20
>
>
> Le lun. 3 sept. 2018 à 10:36, jim ferenczi
>
> <[email protected]> a écrit :
>
>
> Ok thanks Đạt and Erick. I'll follow the blockers on
>
> Jira.  Đạt do you have an issue opened for the HTTP/2 support ?
>
>
> Le ven. 31 août 2018 à 16:40, Erick Erickson
>
> <[email protected]> a écrit :
>
>
> There's also the issue of what to do as far as
>
> removing Trie* support.
>
> I think there's a blocker JIRA.
>
> project = SOLR AND priority = Blocker AND
>
> resolution = Unresolved
>
>
> Shows 6 blockers
> On Fri, Aug 31, 2018 at 4:12 AM Đạt Cao Mạnh
>
> <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>
> Hi Jim,
>
> I really want to introduce the support of HTTP/2
>
> into Solr 8.0 (currently cooked in jira/http2 branch). The changes of that
> branch are less than Star Burst effort and closer to be merged into master
> branch.
>
>
> Thanks!
>
> On Fri, Aug 31, 2018 at 3:55 PM jim ferenczi
>
> <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>
> Hi all,
> I'd like to get some feedback regarding the
>
> upcoming Lucene/Solr 8 release. There are still some cleanups and docs to
> add on the Lucene side but it seems that all blockers are resolved.
>
> From a Solr perspective are there any important
>
> changes that need to be done or are we still good with the October target for
> the release ? Adrien mentioned the Star Burst effort some time ago, is it
> something that is planned for 8 ?
>
>
> Cheers,
> Jim
>
> Le mer. 1 août 2018 à 19:02, David Smiley
>
> <[email protected]> a écrit :
>
>
> Yes, that new BKD/Points based code is
>
> definitely something we want in 8 or 7.5 -- it's a big deal.  I think it 
> would also
> be awesome if we had highlighter that could use the Weight.matches() API --
>
> &g
>
>
>
>
> --
> Sincerely yours
> Mikhail Khludnev
>
>
>
>
>
> --
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