[
https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SOLR-14170?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:comment-tabpanel&focusedCommentId=17071068#comment-17071068
]
Jan Høydahl commented on SOLR-14170:
------------------------------------
bq. Jan Høydahl, take a prior deep breath the next time you're dealing with me.
I first asked "was this done already", and your answer did not answer that
question and did not clearly communicate your intent. I'll try to remember for
next time that written communication can be lacking and unclear, so better ask
follow-up questions like "Are you proposing to not do any changes?" and wait
for response, or even better, reach out on slack?
Anyway, it is alreay out there both in 8.4 and 8.5 without any disclaimers, but
perhaps so few people started using it that there is still time to communicate
such a "experimental" disclaimer in 8.6, or 8.5.1?
bq. There is no concept of GA for any feature/component of Solr.
Why not? Sure, we don't have an official concept of "GA" as such, but there is
nothing stopping us from tagging and documenting features as "preview" / "beta"
/ "unstable" / "experimental" or what you like. It is an industy best practice
to clearly establish expectations with users and I think we can do better here
as a project. Users who don't want bleeding edge will probably stay away from
such features until they mature more. We can then perfectly well make a JIRA to
graduate this feature, stating in release notes "The packages feature is now no
longer 'experimental'. Early adopters need to change X and Y..."
> Tag package feature as experimental
> -----------------------------------
>
> Key: SOLR-14170
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SOLR-14170
> Project: Solr
> Issue Type: Test
> Components: documentation
> Reporter: Jan Høydahl
> Assignee: Ishan Chattopadhyaya
> Priority: Major
> Fix For: 8.6
>
>
> The new package store and package installation feature introduced in 8.4 was
> supposed to be tagged as lucene.experimental with a clear warning in
> ref-guide "Not yet recommended for production use"
> Let's add that for 8.5 so there is no doubt that if you use the feature you
> know the risks. Once the APIs have stabilized and there are a number of
> packages available "in the wild", we can decide to release it as a "GA"
> feature, but not yet!
--
This message was sent by Atlassian Jira
(v8.3.4#803005)
---------------------------------------------------------------------
To unsubscribe, e-mail: issues-unsubscr...@lucene.apache.org
For additional commands, e-mail: issues-h...@lucene.apache.org
