Re: Heads up on SOLR-16824: Adopt Linux Command line tool pattern of -- for long option commands

2024-06-13 Thread Eric Pugh
I appreciate the encouragement Houston, I was starting to flag a bit on this… One thing I noticed is that some of our tools, like the ZK related ones, use the shell code to do arg parsing, and then we pass them into Java. Those will still work with old and new parameters, but until we move the

Re: CHANGES.txt -- is worthy?

2024-06-13 Thread Eric Pugh
I definitly struggle with this. I wonder if we need a brand new approach that isn’t encumbered by historical patterns to get us moving forward on this? What if we changed it to something that focused on the different constituencies of Solr. * Changes Impacting Search Developers * Change

CHANGES.txt -- is worthy?

2024-06-13 Thread David Smiley
When I think of CHANGES.txt, I think of communicating to users. We write something succinct for the benefit of users to understand how this change will impact them. I don't think of CHANGES.txt as a log of all changes. I think increasing the scope to such wastes the time of users (and *we* are a