On 03/15/2010 07:14 PM, Chris Hostetter wrote:
: Development on branches/solr to get on lucene trunk is progressing at
: a furious (nay... ferocious) pace, pushed by the "not new, but new to
: solr" committers. Feels great to have everyone on the same team!
I feel like i must have missed out on some sort of discussion -- what was
the motivation behind creating a branch for this? (as opposed to just
using solr/trunk, since it seemed like there was a clear concensus from
all the solr devs (in the merge discussion) that the next major solr
release should be in sync with Lucene 3.x)
Because getting Solr on Lucene 3.x is a combination of a bunch of issues
and patches - robert and I were trying to juggle them all and it was
major annoying. So we made a branch that we could commit crappy stuff
too fast and furious to get things up to speed and iterate. This branch
is basically the culmination of all the patches, plus whatever else we
needed.
Also: why such a horrible branch name? ... seems more then a little
vague.
God don't ask. As Robert and I were looking for a place for a branch, it
came up in #Lucene irc chat that we should put it in a certain place.
It turns out, that certain place caused a raucous. For one, Uwe popped
up and said something like:
REVERT!!!!!!
REVERT!!!!!!
REVERT!!!!!!
REVERT!!!!!!
REVERT!!!!!!
So while it made some sense to call it solr in the unspoken place that
it was, I was in such a hurry to move it I just left the name. Now it
would require everyone svn switching to change it, so we have just left
it for now. Renames and moves are easy in svn though, so I'm sure we
could organize something better - we just meant for this to be a very
temporary scratch pad to play with what was need to get up to Lucene trunk.
We haven't meant to do anything official is why we havn't dropped onto
the dev-list - we were just looking for a branch to hash out these
patches. Now its up to everyone what we do with this branch.
-Hoss
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- Mark
http://www.lucidimagination.com
