Thank you, that was very informative. +0 for this release, I builds and pass my test suite.
But I was unable to make a complete integration test because I do not have a proper index format migration infrastructure and my index is made of incompletely-upgraded lucene6 and lucene7 segments. I will post my questions about index upgrading on java-u...@lucene.apache.org <mailto:java-u...@lucene.apache.org>. Regards. > On 11 Jun 2019, at 16:50, Andi Vajda <va...@apache.org> wrote: > > >> On Jun 11, 2019, at 06:30, David Allouche <da...@allouche.net> wrote: >> >> This is maybe a silly question, but what is the purpose of this voting >> process? > > By the rules of Apache, three PMC binding votes are needed to make a release. > In addition, it's a gauge of general interest in the project. > >> Is this something required by the project governance? > > https://www.apache.org/foundation/voting.html > (see "votes on package releases", in particular) > >> What is the meaning of a vote? Does that mean "I am interested", or does it >> mean "I have tested the latest trunk and it looks good", or something else? > > If you find a bug in the release artifacts (not in the latest trunk) before > the release is made, the release is likely to be pulled. > >> What is the typical expected delay for reply? For example, I reserve Fridays >> for technical debt management (including upgrading dependencies), so I >> cannot typically validate a new PyLucene version in less than a week. > > A vote must run for at least 72 hours. > Because you are not on the PMC, your vote falls into the "interest gauging" > category, is not binding and is considered "best effort". > >> This is probably all common questions with well documented answers. If >> that's the case, then it would be nice to have a link to the answers in VOTE >> requests. > > https://www.apache.org/foundation/voting.html > > Andi.. > >> >>> On 11 Jun 2019, at 00:39, Andi Vajda <va...@apache.org> wrote: >>> >>> >>> The PyLucene 8.1.1 (rc1) release tracking the recent release of >>> Apache Lucene 8.1.1 is ready. >>> >>> A release candidate is available from: >>> https://dist.apache.org/repos/dist/dev/lucene/pylucene/8.1.1-rc1/ >>> >>> PyLucene 8.1.1 is built with JCC 3.5, included in these release artifacts. >>> >>> JCC 3.5 supports Python 3.3+ (in addition to Python 2.3+). >>> PyLucene may be built with Python 2 or Python 3. >>> >>> Please vote to release these artifacts as PyLucene 8.1.1. >>> Anyone interested in this release can and should vote ! >>> >>> Thanks ! >>> >>> Andi.. >>> >>> ps: the KEYS file for PyLucene release signing is at: >>> https://dist.apache.org/repos/dist/release/lucene/pylucene/KEYS >>> https://dist.apache.org/repos/dist/dev/lucene/pylucene/KEYS >>> >>> pps: here is my +1 >>
