Re: Version stability [was: svn branch issues]

2010-09-17 Thread Yonik Seeley
On Fri, Sep 17, 2010 at 10:46 AM, Mark Miller wrote: > I agree it's mainly API wise, but there are other issues - largely due > to Lucene right now - consider the bugs that have been dug up this year > on the 4.x line because flex has been such a large rewrite deep in > Lucene. We wouldn't do flex

Re: Version stability [was: svn branch issues]

2010-09-17 Thread Mark Miller
I agree it's mainly API wise, but there are other issues - largely due to Lucene right now - consider the bugs that have been dug up this year on the 4.x line because flex has been such a large rewrite deep in Lucene. We wouldn't do flex on the 3.x stable line and it's taken a while for everything

Re: Version stability [was: svn branch issues]

2010-09-17 Thread Yonik Seeley
I think we aim for a "stable" trunk (4.0-dev) too, as we always have (in the functional sense... i.e. operate correctly, don't crash, etc). The stability is more a reference to API stability - the Java APIs are much more likely to change on trunk. Solr's *external* APIs are much less likely to ch

Re: Version stability [was: svn branch issues]

2010-09-17 Thread Mark Miller
The 3.x line should be pretty stable. Hopefully we will do a release soon. A conversation was again started about more frequent releases recently, and hopefully that will lead to a 3.x release near term. In any case, 3.x is the stable branch - 4.x is where the more crazy stuff happens. If you are

Version stability [was: svn branch issues]

2010-09-17 Thread Mark Allan
OK, 1.5 won't be released, so we'll avoid that. I've now got my code additions compiling against a version of 3.x so we'll stick with that rather than solr_trunk for the time being. Does anyone have any sense of when 3.x might be considered stable enough for a release? We're hoping to go