Hello everyone, Just wanted to post a notification that *we will likely be having an 8.11.4 release*, and unless someone wants to volunteer themselves, I'll probably be handling it. So everyone get in the things you think need to be included in the next week or so (to lucene-solr/branch_8_11).
Other than that, let's talk about the future of Solr 8. It's been around 3 years since Solr 9 was released I think? The build and release process is quite different, which in part makes it quite hard to maintain at this point. We are a set of volunteers, so we should say that we only support what we can realistically support. *After this release, I suggest that on our website we should drop support for Solr 8 (and therefore only support Solr 9 until Solr 10 comes out).* I don't think we should make a giant shift in our support story, but this is a fairly special case. Not often will we do a giant shift of our github repos and build infrastructure in the same major release. So I'm not particularly worried about this being a slippery slope. But we should be honest about the support users are getting, and the efforts that we are able to put in. - Houston
