2026-02-18 Meeting Notes

Date

18 Feb 2026

- Congratulations and thanks to our newest committer, Rahul Goswami
- Demo of using "search-benchmark-game" to perf test Solr (Eric)
- Python over Gradle + Kotlin DSL? (Christos) (thread)
- VEX Generation Tooling (Piotr)

In the demo Eric demonstrated the search-benchmark-game
During the demo the project was used to run and compare the performance of multiple queries with selected Solr versions
According to Eric, critical performance issues like in Solr 9.10.0 were visible in the benchmarks
Further testing and input is requested
The corresponding discussion thread can be found here

In the discussion we distinguished between three types of files that are candidates for a possible migration
- Bucket 1: Python scripts that are commonly used throughout the development process
- Bucket 2: Gradle Build files written in Groovy that can be migrated to the new default of Gradle which is Kotlin DSL
- Bucket 3: Release scripts that are used by the minority of us
For the first bucket the biggest gain after a migration would be that we would reduce the OS-level dependencies that are currently needed
- After a migration we would no longer need a compatible python runtime to run scripts
For the second bucket a migration would mainly improve the developer experience due to the improved IDE support
Migrating the third bucket should be considered after the updates from the other two buckets, which may already resolve this one
Proposals via pull requests will be made to get a better understanding what a migration will look like and what the actual benefits could be (besides the ones mentioned above)