I discovered this well-written post from someone who has forked projects a number of times and wrote down his lessons learned. It might be interesting to some of you that have forks of Solr. The advice made sense from my experience as well.
https://joaquimrocha.com/2024/09/22/how-to-fork/ Obviously, if you don't need a fork then count yourself lucky! ~ David Smiley Apache Lucene/Solr Search Developer http://www.linkedin.com/in/davidwsmiley