[hibernate-issues] [Hibernate-JIRA] Commented: (HSEARCH-728) Backport MassIndexer to 3.1.X

[Sanne Grinovero (JIRA)]

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Sanne Grinovero commented on HSEARCH-728:
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Hi Chris,
You make good points. This is the balance we constantly try and adjust between innovation and stability in our products.  New features are made in our projects and being new we have less feedback and don't know how stable they are. It would be foolish to claim we can support them properly. We're putting an effort in trying to have a faster pace between newer releases and supported releases, so that people don't have to wait for too long for a feature.

We generally don't backport new features to products as it could endanger the stability and the backward compatibility of the platform. This feature is a good example. We have found several bugs since its introduction and have been fixing them over time.

That said, we do break that rule from time to time and on a case by case basis upon customer demand and we have backported features needed by our customers when we found them stable enough.

I see that you've implemented a solution in your project but if you still need the feature in, please open a customer ticket and email me (sanne at hibernate dot org) or Emmanuel (emmanuel at hibernate dot org). No guarantee but we will push in your direction.


> Backport MassIndexer to 3.1.X
> -----------------------------
>
>                 Key: HSEARCH-728
>                 URL: http://opensource.atlassian.com/projects/hibernate/browse/HSEARCH-728
>             Project: Hibernate Search
>          Issue Type: Task
>          Components: massindexer
>    Affects Versions: 3.1.1.GA
>         Environment: Hibernate 3.3.X and any jboss server platform prior to 6.0.
>            Reporter: Chris Hornsey
>
> Anyone using a non JPA2 version of hibernate is unable to utilize the capabilities of the MassIndexer introduced in version 3.2 of search.  At a cursory glance I can not determine a dependency of the new indexer on JPA2.
> It would be very beneficial to make this available as utilizing hibernate search on existing application and manually indexing is obviously difficult with this new massindexer.
> Also anyone who chooses to use a supported version of jboss is excluded from this functionality until most likely 2012.
> If this is not possible i would appreciate an explanation of the dependencies the massindexer has on search 3.2.

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