New to Lucene

[Aayush Kothari <aa...@gmail.com>]

Hello all

Came across Lucene through a friend and GSoC, 2011's project-list.As a
Java-lover I'm highly interested in contributing to the project as a
developer. Going through the documentation, FAQ and mail archives, but it'd
be really helpful if I could get some help to get started with Lucene, esp.
the dev part of it.

Looking forward to a positive reply.

Regards.

Re: New to Lucene

[Aayush Kothari <aa...@gmail.com>]

Thanks a lot, Steve. I'm on it. Will stay in touch for any queries.
Thanks again.

Regards.

RE: New to Lucene

[Steven A Rowe <sa...@syr.edu>]

Hi Aayush,

Welcome!  Lucene/Solr Needs More Developers! (TM)

Have you seen <http://wiki.apache.org/lucene-java/HowToContribute>?  You may be particularly interested in the section at the bottom of the page "Getting your feet wet: where to begin?": <http://wiki.apache.org/lucene-java/HowToContribute#Getting_your_feet_wet:_where_to_begin.3F>.  There are lots of open issues – you can tweak the JIRA query given on that wiki page to exclude the “newdev” label, and you’ll see lots more.

There are currently two actively developed branches, referred to as branch_3x (off of which versions [3.1 … 3.5] have been released) and trunk (from which 4.0 will be released).  Trunk’s design has departed significantly from that of branch_3x.  It seems likely that 4.0 will be released sometime this year, at which point we will create a new branch for it (branch_4x), trunk will become the future 5.0, and branch_3x will go into maintenance-release-only mode.  The current loose plan has 4.0 being released sooner rather than later, and 3.6 being the last major release off of branch_3x.

I mention all the release stuff because you’ll have to decide which branch to base your work on.  My strong recommendation is to start from trunk, and if your changes can be adapted to branch_3x, backport to there once the trunk work is done.  (This is the standard development model; the majority of work committed to trunk is backported to branch_3x, though as the design differences grow greater, the backport ratio has been gradually decreasing.)

Steve

From: Aayush Kothari [mailto:aayush.kothari10@gmail.com]
Sent: Saturday, February 18, 2012 12:28 AM
To: dev@lucene.apache.org
Subject: New to Lucene

Hello all

Came across Lucene through a friend and GSoC, 2011's project-list.As a Java-lover I'm highly interested in contributing to the project as a developer. Going through the documentation, FAQ and mail archives, but it'd be really helpful if I could get some help to get started with Lucene, esp. the dev part of it.

Looking forward to a positive reply.

Regards.