Just to open a can of worms, Solr 5.0?

[Erick Erickson <er...@gmail.com>]

Let me say at the outset that I am NOT saying "we should cut this real
soon now", but wanted a quick read of what people are thinking.

I'm curious what people's thoughts are for Solr 5.0. True, Solr
currently doesn't have a ton of compelling new features, certainly
nothing on the order of the 3x->4x transition.

That said, does it make sense to think of 5.0 as a "consolidation"
release rather than a major new feature release where we

> rip out all the deprecated stuff (I claim dibs on solr.xml persistence)
> fix up all of the places in the code where it says //TODO Java 7
> start using Java 7 constructs freely
> ???

It seems like we could use a roadmap here. Once we start not having to
maintain Java 6 compat and removing deprecations, 5x->4x merging will
be increasingly "interesting". My off-the-cuff vision is that we get
4.x into "good enough" shape and then start down the 5.x path once we
think we're at a point where we won't be changing the 4.x code line as
frequently as we are now.

Straw-man time-frame: Start cutting over in the January or so. Which
would be a release probably mid 2014.

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Re: Just to open a can of worms, Solr 5.0?

[Shawn Heisey <so...@elyograg.org>]

On 7/31/2013 5:46 AM, Erick Erickson wrote:
> It seems like we could use a roadmap here. Once we start not having to
> maintain Java 6 compat and removing deprecations, 5x->4x merging will
> be increasingly "interesting". My off-the-cuff vision is that we get
> 4.x into "good enough" shape and then start down the 5.x path once we
> think we're at a point where we won't be changing the 4.x code line as
> frequently as we are now.
> 
> Straw-man time-frame: Start cutting over in the January or so. Which
> would be a release probably mid 2014.

+1

I agree that we should start formulating a loose plan.  My initial gut
reaction was that January was a long time out.  I then actually looked
at the calendar, it's only 4 months away.  That seems reasonable to me.

Thanks,
Shawn


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