Re: "good first issue" grooming

Wonderful idea for next time :-)

On Thu, Sep 11, 2025 at 3:45 AM Adrien Grand <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hey David,
>
> Thank you for doing this! I don't have good ideas for new good first
> issues.
>
> However, something that we need to periodically do and hasn't been done in
> a long time now is taking a look at the slower Lucene tests and checking if
> they are slow for a good reason or not. Some tests are slow for a good
> reason (e.g. PostingsFormatTestCase and DocValuesFormatTestCase sub classes
> usually), but often, they are not slow for a good reason but because they
> do too much merging or index many documents with the SimpleText codec. For
> instance I've seen TestPriorityQueue and TestLateInteractionRescorer often
> take several seconds recently, I'm not sure if this is needed. There are
> likely many other tests in this case. This could be a good opportunity to
> get familiar with Lucene's tooling (tests.slowestTests, tests.profile,
> etc.), how Lucene works (text analysis, indexing, merging, searching), and
> getting a first change in. I wouldn't mind separate PRs for each slow test
> that gets a speedup to help share this task across multiple participants to
> the Hackathon.
>
> On Wed, Sep 10, 2025 at 6:16 PM David Smiley <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> I'll be running a hackathon tomorrow at Community-over-Code with
>> Nazerke.  I'll be sharing the "good first issue" issues as a potential list
>> of items for new contributors:
>> https://github.com/apache/lucene/issues?q=is%3Aissue%20state%3Aopen%20label%3A%22good%20first%20issue%22
>>  (only 9 issues as I write this)
>>
>> You can help our project & contributors & hackathon simply by doing a
>> little label grooming.  If you created an issue recently and think it's a
>> "good first issue" for a contributor then add it!  Come to think of it,
>> maybe even some bugs might be such.  Or maybe something on your mind hasn't
>> been filed yet; please do!
>>
>> ~ David Smiley
>> Apache Lucene/Solr Search Developer
>> http://www.linkedin.com/in/davidwsmiley
>>
>
>
> --
> Adrien
>