Hi Ivan. I'm responding for myself; I'm not answering *for* the PMC.
On Thu, Nov 5, 2026 at 9:37 AM Ivan Šarić <[email protected]> wrote: > Three questions: > > 1. Would the PMC be willing to endorse such an application, i.e. confirm > that the work is on the project roadmap and that a committer will review > it? Applications without maintainer backing are unlikely to pass their > review. > I will review your work. It is on the roadmap -- I put it there. I'm a PMC member. Let's just leave it at that instead of saying the PMC decided or agreed to anything. > 2. The fund has a minimum of EUR 50,000 of work per application, which > argues for a broader package than the remaining SIP-22 steps alone. Is > there adjacent Solr 11 maintenance work you'd want bundled in? SOLR-18398 > (SolrQueryResponse and the response header) is one candidate David > mentioned earlier; I'm happy to expand the scope to what the project > actually needs rather than only what I've already started. > SIP-22 includes SOLR-18398, BTW. SIP-22 will have a fair amount of updates to configuration code to reduce NamedList usage; you might not have accounted for that. We could consider further expanding to use the new ConfigurablePlugin abstraction. We could iterate on improving that and then employ it widely to reduce boring & bespoke configuration initialization code. > 3. One of their conditions is that no other public body is already funding > the same activities. I've checked their published investments and the > NLnet/NGI lists and found nothing for Solr or Lucene, but is any current > Solr maintenance work already funded or committed from another source > (ASF-level funds included), so I don't propose it? It's impossible to truly know. Generally contributions/development happen without any disclosure of motivations or compensation. FWIW I think maintenance work of this nature is particularly unlikely to be some kind of funded effort. BTW, the ASF doesn't fund development within the projects, or at least I've never heard of this. > To be clear, this doesn't change how the work is done: everything goes > through the normal SIP, JIRA and review process, and the SIP-22 work > continues regardless of whether the funding comes through. Good :-) Good luck on your grant application!
