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Posted to user@lucenenet.apache.org by Nicholas Green <ni...@starnow.com> on 2010/11/01 04:13:34 UTC
RE: Lucene.NET Community Status
As an aside - does anyone else here use NHibernate.Search?
For those that don't know it uses Lucene.NET under the hood, which is why I ask. I'm curious to know how many people use Lucene.net directly and how many people have it wrapped in something else. I suspect that most people are using directly, but it would be good to know if I am the only one or not.
Nicholas.
-----Original Message-----
From: Noel Lysaght [mailto:lysaghtn@hotmail.com]
Sent: Monday, 1 November 2010 1:46 a.m.
To: lucene-net-user@lucene.apache.org; general@lucene.apache.org
Cc: lucene-net-dev@lucene.apache.org
Subject: Re: Lucene.NET Community Status
Hi Folks, count me in; I've being using Lucene.NET for over a year and have
found it to be the best Open Source .NET project we use in our company.
I also think it would be a pity to move away from Apache and fork it
separately; Lucene is still maturing on the Java side of things very quickly
and it's feature set is becoming more and more useful; it would be a pity to
loose that momentum in the .NET side of things.
Anyway there are other options to make LUCENE.NET more .NET"ified" if
required, building additional libraries over the ported ones is just one
simple option.
I have found very little reason to delve into the code other than to try and
understand what it is doing before I post issues to the mailing list.
Overall I have found it to very stable and mature.
If you think I would be of benefit I would have 6-8 hours a week I can
contribute to the project if that is sufficient enough, I know we're all
fighting hard at the moment to keep our heads above water, so until things
calm back down again that about all I'd be able to manage.
Anyway let me know if I'd be of use, I have strong C# skills and 20+ years
of development experience (obviously not all in C#).
Kind Regards
Noel
--------------------------------------------------
From: "Frank Yu" <fr...@farpoint.com>
Sent: Sunday, October 31, 2010 9:44 AM
To: <lu...@lucene.apache.org>; <ge...@lucene.apache.org>
Cc: <lu...@lucene.apache.org>
Subject: RE: Lucene.NET Community Status
> Grand,
>
> I have been using the Lucene.net for a year now and it's a wonderful
> project. I would like to participate and contribute in order to keep it
> alive. Please count me in.
>
> Regards,
>
> Frank Yu
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Grant Ingersoll [mailto:gsingers@apache.org]
> Sent: Saturday, October 30, 2010 9:55 AM
> To: general@lucene.apache.org
> Cc: lucene-net-user@lucene.apache.org; lucene-net-dev@lucene.apache.org
> Subject: Re: Lucene.NET Community Status
>
>
> On Oct 30, 2010, at 8:52 AM, George Aroush wrote:
>
>> Hi Grant,
>>
>> I'm perfectly fine going back to incubation, that will help us to
>> re-validate this project and hopefully bring in some new blood. If we do
>> so, beside the current committers, who have had experience with
>> Lucene.Net
>> and the Apache way, who else do we bring in as new initial committers?
>> What
>> criteria do we use? Should we start with the current committers and in
>> 3-6
>> months add / remove from the list?
>
> Here's the current list:
> George Aroush george @ aroush.net
> Işık YİĞİT (DIGY) digydigy @ gmail.com
> Doug Sale dsale @ myspace-inc.com
> Michael Garski mgarski @ myspace-inc.com
>
> Seeing how Doug, Isik and Michael haven't responded, you might want to
> track them down. I think it is fine to see if they still want to
> participate, but I'd look for other people who want to volunteer too. I'd
> simply solicit names and add them to the Wiki proposal. I don't think
> there is any requirement beyond that for incubation. What the project
> needs right now is people who are willing to step up and act now.
>
>
>>
>> Btw, sorry to post this to 3 different mailing list, but I hope by doing
>> so
>> it gets some extra visibility.
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> -- George
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Grant Ingersoll [mailto:gsingers@apache.org]
>> Sent: Saturday, October 30, 2010 6:59 AM
>> To: lucene-net-user@lucene.apache.org
>> Cc: general@lucene.apache.org; lucene-net-dev@lucene.apache.org
>> Subject: Re: Lucene.NET Community Status
>>
>>
>> On Oct 29, 2010, at 11:19 PM, George Aroush wrote:
>>
>>> Hi Grant and all,
>>>
>>> I will get engaged with the project again. The way I see it, by the end
>> of
>>> the year, we must:
>>>
>>> 1) Clean up the website, and / or
>>> 2) Create an official release off the current trunk, and
>>> 3) Sometimes next year, port the most current version of Java Lucene.
>>>
>>> If by the end of the year, if we don't manage #1 and / or #2, Lucene.Net
>>> should be at the mercy of Apache's PMC.
>>
>> Please see the original email below. You also need new blood
>> contributing
>> to the project. One active committer for a project that has been around
>> this long is not enough. You also need a plan for self determination,
>> i.e.
>> to either become a top level project (i.e. lucenenet.apache.org or
>> something
>> like that) here at the ASF or for spinning out somewhere else under a new
>> name. This will be better for the project as you will then be guided by
>> a
>> PMC that is made up of the community members who have a stake in the
>> project, as opposed to now where you have a PMC, other than George, that
>> is
>> largely unaware of Lucene.NET and has no stake in Lucene.NET and is not
>> informed enough to make decisions about new committers, releases, etc.
>> and
>> likely isn't even capable of running Lucene.NET (I'm on a Mac, for
>> instance.)
>>
>> In fact, if I were active in this community, I would put the self
>> determination piece of the puzzle before all others because it has a
>> number
>> of effects that make 1, 2 and 3 easier for you. Personally, I would go
>> back
>> to the Incubator with a proposal for re-entry there that adds at least
>> 4-5
>> new committers based on volunteers stepping up here. Once you have 4-5
>> new
>> committers, then you have people who can do the work to get a release
>> out,
>> clean up the website and, most importantly, learn how developing code at
>> the
>> ASF works. You also then have the genesis of a PMC that makes for a
>> sustainable project and one where you can get 3 binding PMC votes for a
>> release (which you may not be able to do at the moment under Lucene
>> simply
>> because other than George, there are not any .NET programmers on the PMC
>> who
>> can verify the release is viable.)
>>
>> I can help you craft the proposal to go into the Incubator, as I feel it
>> is
>> part of my duties as Chair to see some resolve on this project, but
>> beyond
>> that I personally am not interested in being involved. I do think there
>> needs to be a .NET version of Lucene, though, so I wish you all the best
>> of
>> luck in keeping the project alive.
>>
>> -Grant
>>
>>
>>
>>>
>>> The key for our success is for the community working together -- we
>>> can't
>>> have few folks doing the heavy lifting of the project.
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>>
>>> -- George
>>>
>>>
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: Grant Ingersoll [mailto:gsingers@apache.org]
>>> Sent: Friday, October 29, 2010 4:48 PM
>>> To: lucene-net-user@lucene.apache.org
>>> Cc: Lucene mailing list; lucene-net-dev@lucene.apache.org
>>> Subject: Lucene.NET Community Status
>>>
>>> FYI: This message was sent to the lucene-net-dev@lucene.a.o list on Oct.
>> 25
>>> and elicited zero replies. I am sending it here in the hopes that some
>>> of
>>> you will step forward and either bring this project back to life via
>>> going
>>> back to the Incubator or we put it in the Apache Attic and someone can
>> take
>>> and maintain it somewhere else under a different name per the terms of
>>> the
>>> Apache License.
>>>
>>> ---
>>> Hi .Netters,
>>>
>>> The Lucene PMC would like to ask everyone involved with .NET if they
>>> might
>>> chime in on the status of this project. There hasn't been a commit
>>> since
>>> July 2010 (and that one was trivial and there were only 2 in June) and
>> there
>>> seems to be very little activity on the dev mailing list. There also
>>> has
>>> not been a release in a long time. This was brought up at the last
>>> Lucene
>>> Board Report and it doesn't appear that there has been any action since.
>> A
>>> community should be able to withstand the loss of a single committer,
>>> but
>>> here it appears that there are no longer any committers willing to work
>>> on
>>> the project.
>>>
>>> In order to remedy the situation, we would like the following things to
>>> be
>>> done:
>>> 1. The community needs to show some (sustained) life. Not just in
>>> code,
>>> but in discussion of the project's future, etc. We would expect the
>>> committers to take a leadership role here.
>>> 2. The community needs to do a real release that is voted on by the PMC.
>>> 3. The webpage needs to be updated to reflect that those previous
>>> "source"
>>> releases are not real releases and should be taken down. Likewise, the
>> news
>>> section should not tout these non-releases as releases. The website
>> should
>>> also meet the PMC Branding guidelines recently sent out.
>>> 4. Identify some new blood for contributors/committers. Or the current
>>> committers need to step up more and take a lead role in the community.
>>>
>>> We would like to see action on all of these things by the end of this
>> year.
>>> If they can't be met, there will be one of the following actions:
>>> 1. Go back into Incubation
>>> 2. Go into the Apache Attic. If someone wants to take the code base and
>>> fork it out as a project somewhere else under a new name that does not
>>> use
>>> the Lucene trademark name (since that is owned by the ASF) than that is
>>> perfectly acceptable under the Apache license.
>>>
>>> If the conditions can be met, we think that the project should spin
>>> itself
>>> out as its own Top Level ASF project with its own PMC so that its future
>>> direction can be set by the stakeholders of the project and not by the
>>> larger Lucene project as a whole.
>>>
>>> Sincerely,
>>> Grant Ingersoll
>>> On behalf of the Lucene PMC=
>>>
>>
>> --------------------------
>> Grant Ingersoll
>> http://www.lucidimagination.com
>>
>
> --------------------------
> Grant Ingersoll
> http://www.lucidimagination.com/
>
> Search the Lucene ecosystem docs using Solr/Lucene:
> http://www.lucidimagination.com/search
>
>
>
Re: NHibernate.Search (RE: Lucene.NET Community Status)
Posted by Aaron Powell <me...@aaron-powell.com>.
You can found out here:
http://groups.google.com/group/ravendb/browse_thread/thread/a32bda2d4383c98f/5ae637866ba5f514?lnk=raot#5ae637866ba5f514
;)
I've done a bit of stuff using Lucene.Net directly (which I used as an
example on my blog) but the primary way which I work with Lucene is through
an open source project I contribute on called Examine (
http://examine.codeplex.com) which is a wrapper for Lucene.Net that
abstracts away some of the complexities of Lucene and used config-based
index definitions. It's also included OOTB with Umbraco (
http://umbraco.codeplex.com)
Aaron Powell
Umbraco Ninja
http://www.aaron-powell.com | http://twitter.com/slace | Skype:
aaron.l.powell | MSN: aazzap@hotmail.com
On Mon, Nov 1, 2010 at 11:53 PM, Khash Sajadi <kh...@sajadi.co.uk> wrote:
> I wonder what Ayende has to say on this topic since RavenDB uses Lucene.NET
> under the hood quite heavily.
>
> On 1 November 2010 12:51, Brian J. Sayatovic
> <bs...@creditinfonet.com>wrote:
>
> > I'm using Lucene.NET with NHibernate, but I'm *not* using
> > NHibernate.Search. I only did a small integration thus far, and have
> spent
> > the past months focusing on other features of my application. It is in
> the
> > interim that I learned of NHibernate.Search.
> >
> > Regards,
> > Brian.
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Nicholas Green [mailto:nicholas.green@starnow.com]
> > Sent: Sunday, October 31, 2010 11:14 PM
> > To: lucene-net-user@lucene.apache.org
> > Subject: RE: Lucene.NET Community Status
> >
> > As an aside - does anyone else here use NHibernate.Search?
> >
> > For those that don't know it uses Lucene.NET under the hood, which is why
> I
> > ask. I'm curious to know how many people use Lucene.net directly and how
> > many people have it wrapped in something else. I suspect that most people
> > are using directly, but it would be good to know if I am the only one or
> > not.
> >
> >
> >
> > Nicholas.
> >
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Noel Lysaght [mailto:lysaghtn@hotmail.com]
> > Sent: Monday, 1 November 2010 1:46 a.m.
> > To: lucene-net-user@lucene.apache.org; general@lucene.apache.org
> > Cc: lucene-net-dev@lucene.apache.org
> > Subject: Re: Lucene.NET Community Status
> >
> > Hi Folks, count me in; I've being using Lucene.NET for over a year and
> have
> > found it to be the best Open Source .NET project we use in our company.
> >
> > I also think it would be a pity to move away from Apache and fork it
> > separately; Lucene is still maturing on the Java side of things very
> > quickly
> > and it's feature set is becoming more and more useful; it would be a pity
> > to
> > loose that momentum in the .NET side of things.
> > Anyway there are other options to make LUCENE.NET more .NET"ified" if
> > required, building additional libraries over the ported ones is just one
> > simple option.
> >
> > I have found very little reason to delve into the code other than to try
> > and
> > understand what it is doing before I post issues to the mailing list.
> > Overall I have found it to very stable and mature.
> >
> > If you think I would be of benefit I would have 6-8 hours a week I can
> > contribute to the project if that is sufficient enough, I know we're all
> > fighting hard at the moment to keep our heads above water, so until
> things
> > calm back down again that about all I'd be able to manage.
> >
> > Anyway let me know if I'd be of use, I have strong C# skills and 20+
> years
> > of development experience (obviously not all in C#).
> >
> > Kind Regards
> > Noel
> >
> > --------------------------------------------------
> > From: "Frank Yu" <fr...@farpoint.com>
> > Sent: Sunday, October 31, 2010 9:44 AM
> > To: <lu...@lucene.apache.org>; <ge...@lucene.apache.org>
> > Cc: <lu...@lucene.apache.org>
> > Subject: RE: Lucene.NET Community Status
> >
> > > Grand,
> > >
> > > I have been using the Lucene.net for a year now and it's a wonderful
> > > project. I would like to participate and contribute in order to keep it
> > > alive. Please count me in.
> > >
> > > Regards,
> > >
> > > Frank Yu
> > >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: Grant Ingersoll [mailto:gsingers@apache.org]
> > > Sent: Saturday, October 30, 2010 9:55 AM
> > > To: general@lucene.apache.org
> > > Cc: lucene-net-user@lucene.apache.org;
> lucene-net-dev@lucene.apache.org
> > > Subject: Re: Lucene.NET Community Status
> > >
> > >
> > > On Oct 30, 2010, at 8:52 AM, George Aroush wrote:
> > >
> > >> Hi Grant,
> > >>
> > >> I'm perfectly fine going back to incubation, that will help us to
> > >> re-validate this project and hopefully bring in some new blood. If we
> > do
> > >> so, beside the current committers, who have had experience with
> > >> Lucene.Net
> > >> and the Apache way, who else do we bring in as new initial committers?
> > >> What
> > >> criteria do we use? Should we start with the current committers and
> in
> > >> 3-6
> > >> months add / remove from the list?
> > >
> > > Here's the current list:
> > > George Aroush george @ aroush.net
> > > Işık YİĞİT (DIGY) digydigy @ gmail.com
> > > Doug Sale dsale @ myspace-inc.com
> > > Michael Garski mgarski @ myspace-inc.com
> > >
> > > Seeing how Doug, Isik and Michael haven't responded, you might want to
> > > track them down. I think it is fine to see if they still want to
> > > participate, but I'd look for other people who want to volunteer too.
> > I'd
> > > simply solicit names and add them to the Wiki proposal. I don't think
> > > there is any requirement beyond that for incubation. What the project
> > > needs right now is people who are willing to step up and act now.
> > >
> > >
> > >>
> > >> Btw, sorry to post this to 3 different mailing list, but I hope by
> doing
> > >> so
> > >> it gets some extra visibility.
> > >>
> > >> Thanks,
> > >>
> > >> -- George
> > >>
> > >> -----Original Message-----
> > >> From: Grant Ingersoll [mailto:gsingers@apache.org]
> > >> Sent: Saturday, October 30, 2010 6:59 AM
> > >> To: lucene-net-user@lucene.apache.org
> > >> Cc: general@lucene.apache.org; lucene-net-dev@lucene.apache.org
> > >> Subject: Re: Lucene.NET Community Status
> > >>
> > >>
> > >> On Oct 29, 2010, at 11:19 PM, George Aroush wrote:
> > >>
> > >>> Hi Grant and all,
> > >>>
> > >>> I will get engaged with the project again. The way I see it, by the
> > end
> > >> of
> > >>> the year, we must:
> > >>>
> > >>> 1) Clean up the website, and / or
> > >>> 2) Create an official release off the current trunk, and
> > >>> 3) Sometimes next year, port the most current version of Java Lucene.
> > >>>
> > >>> If by the end of the year, if we don't manage #1 and / or #2,
> > Lucene.Net
> > >>> should be at the mercy of Apache's PMC.
> > >>
> > >> Please see the original email below. You also need new blood
> > >> contributing
> > >> to the project. One active committer for a project that has been
> around
> > >> this long is not enough. You also need a plan for self determination,
> > >> i.e.
> > >> to either become a top level project (i.e. lucenenet.apache.org or
> > >> something
> > >> like that) here at the ASF or for spinning out somewhere else under a
> > new
> > >> name. This will be better for the project as you will then be guided
> by
> > >> a
> > >> PMC that is made up of the community members who have a stake in the
> > >> project, as opposed to now where you have a PMC, other than George,
> that
> > >> is
> > >> largely unaware of Lucene.NET and has no stake in Lucene.NET and is
> not
> > >> informed enough to make decisions about new committers, releases, etc.
> > >> and
> > >> likely isn't even capable of running Lucene.NET (I'm on a Mac, for
> > >> instance.)
> > >>
> > >> In fact, if I were active in this community, I would put the self
> > >> determination piece of the puzzle before all others because it has a
> > >> number
> > >> of effects that make 1, 2 and 3 easier for you. Personally, I would
> go
> > >> back
> > >> to the Incubator with a proposal for re-entry there that adds at least
> > >> 4-5
> > >> new committers based on volunteers stepping up here. Once you have
> 4-5
> > >> new
> > >> committers, then you have people who can do the work to get a release
> > >> out,
> > >> clean up the website and, most importantly, learn how developing code
> at
> > >> the
> > >> ASF works. You also then have the genesis of a PMC that makes for a
> > >> sustainable project and one where you can get 3 binding PMC votes for
> a
> > >> release (which you may not be able to do at the moment under Lucene
> > >> simply
> > >> because other than George, there are not any .NET programmers on the
> PMC
> > >> who
> > >> can verify the release is viable.)
> > >>
> > >> I can help you craft the proposal to go into the Incubator, as I feel
> it
> > >> is
> > >> part of my duties as Chair to see some resolve on this project, but
> > >> beyond
> > >> that I personally am not interested in being involved. I do think
> there
> > >> needs to be a .NET version of Lucene, though, so I wish you all the
> best
> > >> of
> > >> luck in keeping the project alive.
> > >>
> > >> -Grant
> > >>
> > >>
> > >>
> > >>>
> > >>> The key for our success is for the community working together -- we
> > >>> can't
> > >>> have few folks doing the heavy lifting of the project.
> > >>>
> > >>> Regards,
> > >>>
> > >>> -- George
> > >>>
> > >>>
> > >>> -----Original Message-----
> > >>> From: Grant Ingersoll [mailto:gsingers@apache.org]
> > >>> Sent: Friday, October 29, 2010 4:48 PM
> > >>> To: lucene-net-user@lucene.apache.org
> > >>> Cc: Lucene mailing list; lucene-net-dev@lucene.apache.org
> > >>> Subject: Lucene.NET Community Status
> > >>>
> > >>> FYI: This message was sent to the lucene-net-dev@lucene.a.o list on
> > Oct.
> > >> 25
> > >>> and elicited zero replies. I am sending it here in the hopes that
> some
> > >>> of
> > >>> you will step forward and either bring this project back to life via
> > >>> going
> > >>> back to the Incubator or we put it in the Apache Attic and someone
> can
> > >> take
> > >>> and maintain it somewhere else under a different name per the terms
> of
> > >>> the
> > >>> Apache License.
> > >>>
> > >>> ---
> > >>> Hi .Netters,
> > >>>
> > >>> The Lucene PMC would like to ask everyone involved with .NET if they
> > >>> might
> > >>> chime in on the status of this project. There hasn't been a commit
> > >>> since
> > >>> July 2010 (and that one was trivial and there were only 2 in June)
> and
> > >> there
> > >>> seems to be very little activity on the dev mailing list. There also
> > >>> has
> > >>> not been a release in a long time. This was brought up at the last
> > >>> Lucene
> > >>> Board Report and it doesn't appear that there has been any action
> > since.
> > >> A
> > >>> community should be able to withstand the loss of a single committer,
> > >>> but
> > >>> here it appears that there are no longer any committers willing to
> work
> > >>> on
> > >>> the project.
> > >>>
> > >>> In order to remedy the situation, we would like the following things
> to
> > >>> be
> > >>> done:
> > >>> 1. The community needs to show some (sustained) life. Not just in
> > >>> code,
> > >>> but in discussion of the project's future, etc. We would expect the
> > >>> committers to take a leadership role here.
> > >>> 2. The community needs to do a real release that is voted on by the
> > PMC.
> > >>> 3. The webpage needs to be updated to reflect that those previous
> > >>> "source"
> > >>> releases are not real releases and should be taken down. Likewise,
> the
> > >> news
> > >>> section should not tout these non-releases as releases. The website
> > >> should
> > >>> also meet the PMC Branding guidelines recently sent out.
> > >>> 4. Identify some new blood for contributors/committers. Or the
> current
> > >>> committers need to step up more and take a lead role in the
> community.
> > >>>
> > >>> We would like to see action on all of these things by the end of this
> > >> year.
> > >>> If they can't be met, there will be one of the following actions:
> > >>> 1. Go back into Incubation
> > >>> 2. Go into the Apache Attic. If someone wants to take the code base
> > and
> > >>> fork it out as a project somewhere else under a new name that does
> not
> > >>> use
> > >>> the Lucene trademark name (since that is owned by the ASF) than that
> is
> > >>> perfectly acceptable under the Apache license.
> > >>>
> > >>> If the conditions can be met, we think that the project should spin
> > >>> itself
> > >>> out as its own Top Level ASF project with its own PMC so that its
> > future
> > >>> direction can be set by the stakeholders of the project and not by
> the
> > >>> larger Lucene project as a whole.
> > >>>
> > >>> Sincerely,
> > >>> Grant Ingersoll
> > >>> On behalf of the Lucene PMC=
> > >>>
> > >>
> > >> --------------------------
> > >> Grant Ingersoll
> > >> http://www.lucidimagination.com
> > >>
> > >
> > > --------------------------
> > > Grant Ingersoll
> > > http://www.lucidimagination.com/
> > >
> > > Search the Lucene ecosystem docs using Solr/Lucene:
> > > http://www.lucidimagination.com/search
> > >
> > >
> > >
> >
> >
>
Re: NHibernate.Search (RE: Lucene.NET Community Status)
Posted by Khash Sajadi <kh...@sajadi.co.uk>.
I wonder what Ayende has to say on this topic since RavenDB uses Lucene.NET
under the hood quite heavily.
On 1 November 2010 12:51, Brian J. Sayatovic
<bs...@creditinfonet.com>wrote:
> I'm using Lucene.NET with NHibernate, but I'm *not* using
> NHibernate.Search. I only did a small integration thus far, and have spent
> the past months focusing on other features of my application. It is in the
> interim that I learned of NHibernate.Search.
>
> Regards,
> Brian.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Nicholas Green [mailto:nicholas.green@starnow.com]
> Sent: Sunday, October 31, 2010 11:14 PM
> To: lucene-net-user@lucene.apache.org
> Subject: RE: Lucene.NET Community Status
>
> As an aside - does anyone else here use NHibernate.Search?
>
> For those that don't know it uses Lucene.NET under the hood, which is why I
> ask. I'm curious to know how many people use Lucene.net directly and how
> many people have it wrapped in something else. I suspect that most people
> are using directly, but it would be good to know if I am the only one or
> not.
>
>
>
> Nicholas.
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Noel Lysaght [mailto:lysaghtn@hotmail.com]
> Sent: Monday, 1 November 2010 1:46 a.m.
> To: lucene-net-user@lucene.apache.org; general@lucene.apache.org
> Cc: lucene-net-dev@lucene.apache.org
> Subject: Re: Lucene.NET Community Status
>
> Hi Folks, count me in; I've being using Lucene.NET for over a year and have
> found it to be the best Open Source .NET project we use in our company.
>
> I also think it would be a pity to move away from Apache and fork it
> separately; Lucene is still maturing on the Java side of things very
> quickly
> and it's feature set is becoming more and more useful; it would be a pity
> to
> loose that momentum in the .NET side of things.
> Anyway there are other options to make LUCENE.NET more .NET"ified" if
> required, building additional libraries over the ported ones is just one
> simple option.
>
> I have found very little reason to delve into the code other than to try
> and
> understand what it is doing before I post issues to the mailing list.
> Overall I have found it to very stable and mature.
>
> If you think I would be of benefit I would have 6-8 hours a week I can
> contribute to the project if that is sufficient enough, I know we're all
> fighting hard at the moment to keep our heads above water, so until things
> calm back down again that about all I'd be able to manage.
>
> Anyway let me know if I'd be of use, I have strong C# skills and 20+ years
> of development experience (obviously not all in C#).
>
> Kind Regards
> Noel
>
> --------------------------------------------------
> From: "Frank Yu" <fr...@farpoint.com>
> Sent: Sunday, October 31, 2010 9:44 AM
> To: <lu...@lucene.apache.org>; <ge...@lucene.apache.org>
> Cc: <lu...@lucene.apache.org>
> Subject: RE: Lucene.NET Community Status
>
> > Grand,
> >
> > I have been using the Lucene.net for a year now and it's a wonderful
> > project. I would like to participate and contribute in order to keep it
> > alive. Please count me in.
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> > Frank Yu
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Grant Ingersoll [mailto:gsingers@apache.org]
> > Sent: Saturday, October 30, 2010 9:55 AM
> > To: general@lucene.apache.org
> > Cc: lucene-net-user@lucene.apache.org; lucene-net-dev@lucene.apache.org
> > Subject: Re: Lucene.NET Community Status
> >
> >
> > On Oct 30, 2010, at 8:52 AM, George Aroush wrote:
> >
> >> Hi Grant,
> >>
> >> I'm perfectly fine going back to incubation, that will help us to
> >> re-validate this project and hopefully bring in some new blood. If we
> do
> >> so, beside the current committers, who have had experience with
> >> Lucene.Net
> >> and the Apache way, who else do we bring in as new initial committers?
> >> What
> >> criteria do we use? Should we start with the current committers and in
> >> 3-6
> >> months add / remove from the list?
> >
> > Here's the current list:
> > George Aroush george @ aroush.net
> > Işık YİĞİT (DIGY) digydigy @ gmail.com
> > Doug Sale dsale @ myspace-inc.com
> > Michael Garski mgarski @ myspace-inc.com
> >
> > Seeing how Doug, Isik and Michael haven't responded, you might want to
> > track them down. I think it is fine to see if they still want to
> > participate, but I'd look for other people who want to volunteer too.
> I'd
> > simply solicit names and add them to the Wiki proposal. I don't think
> > there is any requirement beyond that for incubation. What the project
> > needs right now is people who are willing to step up and act now.
> >
> >
> >>
> >> Btw, sorry to post this to 3 different mailing list, but I hope by doing
> >> so
> >> it gets some extra visibility.
> >>
> >> Thanks,
> >>
> >> -- George
> >>
> >> -----Original Message-----
> >> From: Grant Ingersoll [mailto:gsingers@apache.org]
> >> Sent: Saturday, October 30, 2010 6:59 AM
> >> To: lucene-net-user@lucene.apache.org
> >> Cc: general@lucene.apache.org; lucene-net-dev@lucene.apache.org
> >> Subject: Re: Lucene.NET Community Status
> >>
> >>
> >> On Oct 29, 2010, at 11:19 PM, George Aroush wrote:
> >>
> >>> Hi Grant and all,
> >>>
> >>> I will get engaged with the project again. The way I see it, by the
> end
> >> of
> >>> the year, we must:
> >>>
> >>> 1) Clean up the website, and / or
> >>> 2) Create an official release off the current trunk, and
> >>> 3) Sometimes next year, port the most current version of Java Lucene.
> >>>
> >>> If by the end of the year, if we don't manage #1 and / or #2,
> Lucene.Net
> >>> should be at the mercy of Apache's PMC.
> >>
> >> Please see the original email below. You also need new blood
> >> contributing
> >> to the project. One active committer for a project that has been around
> >> this long is not enough. You also need a plan for self determination,
> >> i.e.
> >> to either become a top level project (i.e. lucenenet.apache.org or
> >> something
> >> like that) here at the ASF or for spinning out somewhere else under a
> new
> >> name. This will be better for the project as you will then be guided by
> >> a
> >> PMC that is made up of the community members who have a stake in the
> >> project, as opposed to now where you have a PMC, other than George, that
> >> is
> >> largely unaware of Lucene.NET and has no stake in Lucene.NET and is not
> >> informed enough to make decisions about new committers, releases, etc.
> >> and
> >> likely isn't even capable of running Lucene.NET (I'm on a Mac, for
> >> instance.)
> >>
> >> In fact, if I were active in this community, I would put the self
> >> determination piece of the puzzle before all others because it has a
> >> number
> >> of effects that make 1, 2 and 3 easier for you. Personally, I would go
> >> back
> >> to the Incubator with a proposal for re-entry there that adds at least
> >> 4-5
> >> new committers based on volunteers stepping up here. Once you have 4-5
> >> new
> >> committers, then you have people who can do the work to get a release
> >> out,
> >> clean up the website and, most importantly, learn how developing code at
> >> the
> >> ASF works. You also then have the genesis of a PMC that makes for a
> >> sustainable project and one where you can get 3 binding PMC votes for a
> >> release (which you may not be able to do at the moment under Lucene
> >> simply
> >> because other than George, there are not any .NET programmers on the PMC
> >> who
> >> can verify the release is viable.)
> >>
> >> I can help you craft the proposal to go into the Incubator, as I feel it
> >> is
> >> part of my duties as Chair to see some resolve on this project, but
> >> beyond
> >> that I personally am not interested in being involved. I do think there
> >> needs to be a .NET version of Lucene, though, so I wish you all the best
> >> of
> >> luck in keeping the project alive.
> >>
> >> -Grant
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>>
> >>> The key for our success is for the community working together -- we
> >>> can't
> >>> have few folks doing the heavy lifting of the project.
> >>>
> >>> Regards,
> >>>
> >>> -- George
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> -----Original Message-----
> >>> From: Grant Ingersoll [mailto:gsingers@apache.org]
> >>> Sent: Friday, October 29, 2010 4:48 PM
> >>> To: lucene-net-user@lucene.apache.org
> >>> Cc: Lucene mailing list; lucene-net-dev@lucene.apache.org
> >>> Subject: Lucene.NET Community Status
> >>>
> >>> FYI: This message was sent to the lucene-net-dev@lucene.a.o list on
> Oct.
> >> 25
> >>> and elicited zero replies. I am sending it here in the hopes that some
> >>> of
> >>> you will step forward and either bring this project back to life via
> >>> going
> >>> back to the Incubator or we put it in the Apache Attic and someone can
> >> take
> >>> and maintain it somewhere else under a different name per the terms of
> >>> the
> >>> Apache License.
> >>>
> >>> ---
> >>> Hi .Netters,
> >>>
> >>> The Lucene PMC would like to ask everyone involved with .NET if they
> >>> might
> >>> chime in on the status of this project. There hasn't been a commit
> >>> since
> >>> July 2010 (and that one was trivial and there were only 2 in June) and
> >> there
> >>> seems to be very little activity on the dev mailing list. There also
> >>> has
> >>> not been a release in a long time. This was brought up at the last
> >>> Lucene
> >>> Board Report and it doesn't appear that there has been any action
> since.
> >> A
> >>> community should be able to withstand the loss of a single committer,
> >>> but
> >>> here it appears that there are no longer any committers willing to work
> >>> on
> >>> the project.
> >>>
> >>> In order to remedy the situation, we would like the following things to
> >>> be
> >>> done:
> >>> 1. The community needs to show some (sustained) life. Not just in
> >>> code,
> >>> but in discussion of the project's future, etc. We would expect the
> >>> committers to take a leadership role here.
> >>> 2. The community needs to do a real release that is voted on by the
> PMC.
> >>> 3. The webpage needs to be updated to reflect that those previous
> >>> "source"
> >>> releases are not real releases and should be taken down. Likewise, the
> >> news
> >>> section should not tout these non-releases as releases. The website
> >> should
> >>> also meet the PMC Branding guidelines recently sent out.
> >>> 4. Identify some new blood for contributors/committers. Or the current
> >>> committers need to step up more and take a lead role in the community.
> >>>
> >>> We would like to see action on all of these things by the end of this
> >> year.
> >>> If they can't be met, there will be one of the following actions:
> >>> 1. Go back into Incubation
> >>> 2. Go into the Apache Attic. If someone wants to take the code base
> and
> >>> fork it out as a project somewhere else under a new name that does not
> >>> use
> >>> the Lucene trademark name (since that is owned by the ASF) than that is
> >>> perfectly acceptable under the Apache license.
> >>>
> >>> If the conditions can be met, we think that the project should spin
> >>> itself
> >>> out as its own Top Level ASF project with its own PMC so that its
> future
> >>> direction can be set by the stakeholders of the project and not by the
> >>> larger Lucene project as a whole.
> >>>
> >>> Sincerely,
> >>> Grant Ingersoll
> >>> On behalf of the Lucene PMC=
> >>>
> >>
> >> --------------------------
> >> Grant Ingersoll
> >> http://www.lucidimagination.com
> >>
> >
> > --------------------------
> > Grant Ingersoll
> > http://www.lucidimagination.com/
> >
> > Search the Lucene ecosystem docs using Solr/Lucene:
> > http://www.lucidimagination.com/search
> >
> >
> >
>
>
NHibernate.Search (RE: Lucene.NET Community Status)
Posted by "Brian J. Sayatovic" <bs...@creditinfonet.com>.
I'm using Lucene.NET with NHibernate, but I'm *not* using NHibernate.Search. I only did a small integration thus far, and have spent the past months focusing on other features of my application. It is in the interim that I learned of NHibernate.Search.
Regards,
Brian.
-----Original Message-----
From: Nicholas Green [mailto:nicholas.green@starnow.com]
Sent: Sunday, October 31, 2010 11:14 PM
To: lucene-net-user@lucene.apache.org
Subject: RE: Lucene.NET Community Status
As an aside - does anyone else here use NHibernate.Search?
For those that don't know it uses Lucene.NET under the hood, which is why I ask. I'm curious to know how many people use Lucene.net directly and how many people have it wrapped in something else. I suspect that most people are using directly, but it would be good to know if I am the only one or not.
Nicholas.
-----Original Message-----
From: Noel Lysaght [mailto:lysaghtn@hotmail.com]
Sent: Monday, 1 November 2010 1:46 a.m.
To: lucene-net-user@lucene.apache.org; general@lucene.apache.org
Cc: lucene-net-dev@lucene.apache.org
Subject: Re: Lucene.NET Community Status
Hi Folks, count me in; I've being using Lucene.NET for over a year and have
found it to be the best Open Source .NET project we use in our company.
I also think it would be a pity to move away from Apache and fork it
separately; Lucene is still maturing on the Java side of things very quickly
and it's feature set is becoming more and more useful; it would be a pity to
loose that momentum in the .NET side of things.
Anyway there are other options to make LUCENE.NET more .NET"ified" if
required, building additional libraries over the ported ones is just one
simple option.
I have found very little reason to delve into the code other than to try and
understand what it is doing before I post issues to the mailing list.
Overall I have found it to very stable and mature.
If you think I would be of benefit I would have 6-8 hours a week I can
contribute to the project if that is sufficient enough, I know we're all
fighting hard at the moment to keep our heads above water, so until things
calm back down again that about all I'd be able to manage.
Anyway let me know if I'd be of use, I have strong C# skills and 20+ years
of development experience (obviously not all in C#).
Kind Regards
Noel
--------------------------------------------------
From: "Frank Yu" <fr...@farpoint.com>
Sent: Sunday, October 31, 2010 9:44 AM
To: <lu...@lucene.apache.org>; <ge...@lucene.apache.org>
Cc: <lu...@lucene.apache.org>
Subject: RE: Lucene.NET Community Status
> Grand,
>
> I have been using the Lucene.net for a year now and it's a wonderful
> project. I would like to participate and contribute in order to keep it
> alive. Please count me in.
>
> Regards,
>
> Frank Yu
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Grant Ingersoll [mailto:gsingers@apache.org]
> Sent: Saturday, October 30, 2010 9:55 AM
> To: general@lucene.apache.org
> Cc: lucene-net-user@lucene.apache.org; lucene-net-dev@lucene.apache.org
> Subject: Re: Lucene.NET Community Status
>
>
> On Oct 30, 2010, at 8:52 AM, George Aroush wrote:
>
>> Hi Grant,
>>
>> I'm perfectly fine going back to incubation, that will help us to
>> re-validate this project and hopefully bring in some new blood. If we do
>> so, beside the current committers, who have had experience with
>> Lucene.Net
>> and the Apache way, who else do we bring in as new initial committers?
>> What
>> criteria do we use? Should we start with the current committers and in
>> 3-6
>> months add / remove from the list?
>
> Here's the current list:
> George Aroush george @ aroush.net
> Işık YİĞİT (DIGY) digydigy @ gmail.com
> Doug Sale dsale @ myspace-inc.com
> Michael Garski mgarski @ myspace-inc.com
>
> Seeing how Doug, Isik and Michael haven't responded, you might want to
> track them down. I think it is fine to see if they still want to
> participate, but I'd look for other people who want to volunteer too. I'd
> simply solicit names and add them to the Wiki proposal. I don't think
> there is any requirement beyond that for incubation. What the project
> needs right now is people who are willing to step up and act now.
>
>
>>
>> Btw, sorry to post this to 3 different mailing list, but I hope by doing
>> so
>> it gets some extra visibility.
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> -- George
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Grant Ingersoll [mailto:gsingers@apache.org]
>> Sent: Saturday, October 30, 2010 6:59 AM
>> To: lucene-net-user@lucene.apache.org
>> Cc: general@lucene.apache.org; lucene-net-dev@lucene.apache.org
>> Subject: Re: Lucene.NET Community Status
>>
>>
>> On Oct 29, 2010, at 11:19 PM, George Aroush wrote:
>>
>>> Hi Grant and all,
>>>
>>> I will get engaged with the project again. The way I see it, by the end
>> of
>>> the year, we must:
>>>
>>> 1) Clean up the website, and / or
>>> 2) Create an official release off the current trunk, and
>>> 3) Sometimes next year, port the most current version of Java Lucene.
>>>
>>> If by the end of the year, if we don't manage #1 and / or #2, Lucene.Net
>>> should be at the mercy of Apache's PMC.
>>
>> Please see the original email below. You also need new blood
>> contributing
>> to the project. One active committer for a project that has been around
>> this long is not enough. You also need a plan for self determination,
>> i.e.
>> to either become a top level project (i.e. lucenenet.apache.org or
>> something
>> like that) here at the ASF or for spinning out somewhere else under a new
>> name. This will be better for the project as you will then be guided by
>> a
>> PMC that is made up of the community members who have a stake in the
>> project, as opposed to now where you have a PMC, other than George, that
>> is
>> largely unaware of Lucene.NET and has no stake in Lucene.NET and is not
>> informed enough to make decisions about new committers, releases, etc.
>> and
>> likely isn't even capable of running Lucene.NET (I'm on a Mac, for
>> instance.)
>>
>> In fact, if I were active in this community, I would put the self
>> determination piece of the puzzle before all others because it has a
>> number
>> of effects that make 1, 2 and 3 easier for you. Personally, I would go
>> back
>> to the Incubator with a proposal for re-entry there that adds at least
>> 4-5
>> new committers based on volunteers stepping up here. Once you have 4-5
>> new
>> committers, then you have people who can do the work to get a release
>> out,
>> clean up the website and, most importantly, learn how developing code at
>> the
>> ASF works. You also then have the genesis of a PMC that makes for a
>> sustainable project and one where you can get 3 binding PMC votes for a
>> release (which you may not be able to do at the moment under Lucene
>> simply
>> because other than George, there are not any .NET programmers on the PMC
>> who
>> can verify the release is viable.)
>>
>> I can help you craft the proposal to go into the Incubator, as I feel it
>> is
>> part of my duties as Chair to see some resolve on this project, but
>> beyond
>> that I personally am not interested in being involved. I do think there
>> needs to be a .NET version of Lucene, though, so I wish you all the best
>> of
>> luck in keeping the project alive.
>>
>> -Grant
>>
>>
>>
>>>
>>> The key for our success is for the community working together -- we
>>> can't
>>> have few folks doing the heavy lifting of the project.
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>>
>>> -- George
>>>
>>>
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: Grant Ingersoll [mailto:gsingers@apache.org]
>>> Sent: Friday, October 29, 2010 4:48 PM
>>> To: lucene-net-user@lucene.apache.org
>>> Cc: Lucene mailing list; lucene-net-dev@lucene.apache.org
>>> Subject: Lucene.NET Community Status
>>>
>>> FYI: This message was sent to the lucene-net-dev@lucene.a.o list on Oct.
>> 25
>>> and elicited zero replies. I am sending it here in the hopes that some
>>> of
>>> you will step forward and either bring this project back to life via
>>> going
>>> back to the Incubator or we put it in the Apache Attic and someone can
>> take
>>> and maintain it somewhere else under a different name per the terms of
>>> the
>>> Apache License.
>>>
>>> ---
>>> Hi .Netters,
>>>
>>> The Lucene PMC would like to ask everyone involved with .NET if they
>>> might
>>> chime in on the status of this project. There hasn't been a commit
>>> since
>>> July 2010 (and that one was trivial and there were only 2 in June) and
>> there
>>> seems to be very little activity on the dev mailing list. There also
>>> has
>>> not been a release in a long time. This was brought up at the last
>>> Lucene
>>> Board Report and it doesn't appear that there has been any action since.
>> A
>>> community should be able to withstand the loss of a single committer,
>>> but
>>> here it appears that there are no longer any committers willing to work
>>> on
>>> the project.
>>>
>>> In order to remedy the situation, we would like the following things to
>>> be
>>> done:
>>> 1. The community needs to show some (sustained) life. Not just in
>>> code,
>>> but in discussion of the project's future, etc. We would expect the
>>> committers to take a leadership role here.
>>> 2. The community needs to do a real release that is voted on by the PMC.
>>> 3. The webpage needs to be updated to reflect that those previous
>>> "source"
>>> releases are not real releases and should be taken down. Likewise, the
>> news
>>> section should not tout these non-releases as releases. The website
>> should
>>> also meet the PMC Branding guidelines recently sent out.
>>> 4. Identify some new blood for contributors/committers. Or the current
>>> committers need to step up more and take a lead role in the community.
>>>
>>> We would like to see action on all of these things by the end of this
>> year.
>>> If they can't be met, there will be one of the following actions:
>>> 1. Go back into Incubation
>>> 2. Go into the Apache Attic. If someone wants to take the code base and
>>> fork it out as a project somewhere else under a new name that does not
>>> use
>>> the Lucene trademark name (since that is owned by the ASF) than that is
>>> perfectly acceptable under the Apache license.
>>>
>>> If the conditions can be met, we think that the project should spin
>>> itself
>>> out as its own Top Level ASF project with its own PMC so that its future
>>> direction can be set by the stakeholders of the project and not by the
>>> larger Lucene project as a whole.
>>>
>>> Sincerely,
>>> Grant Ingersoll
>>> On behalf of the Lucene PMC=
>>>
>>
>> --------------------------
>> Grant Ingersoll
>> http://www.lucidimagination.com
>>
>
> --------------------------
> Grant Ingersoll
> http://www.lucidimagination.com/
>
> Search the Lucene ecosystem docs using Solr/Lucene:
> http://www.lucidimagination.com/search
>
>
>
Re: Lucene.NET Community Status
Posted by Artem Chereisky <a....@gmail.com>.
Directly
On 01/11/2010, at 14:13, "Nicholas Green" <ni...@starnow.com> wrote:
> As an aside - does anyone else here use NHibernate.Search?
>
> For those that don't know it uses Lucene.NET under the hood, which is why I ask. I'm curious to know how many people use Lucene.net directly and how many people have it wrapped in something else. I suspect that most people are using directly, but it would be good to know if I am the only one or not.
>
>
>
> Nicholas.
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Noel Lysaght [mailto:lysaghtn@hotmail.com]
> Sent: Monday, 1 November 2010 1:46 a.m.
> To: lucene-net-user@lucene.apache.org; general@lucene.apache.org
> Cc: lucene-net-dev@lucene.apache.org
> Subject: Re: Lucene.NET Community Status
>
> Hi Folks, count me in; I've being using Lucene.NET for over a year and have
> found it to be the best Open Source .NET project we use in our company.
>
> I also think it would be a pity to move away from Apache and fork it
> separately; Lucene is still maturing on the Java side of things very quickly
> and it's feature set is becoming more and more useful; it would be a pity to
> loose that momentum in the .NET side of things.
> Anyway there are other options to make LUCENE.NET more .NET"ified" if
> required, building additional libraries over the ported ones is just one
> simple option.
>
> I have found very little reason to delve into the code other than to try and
> understand what it is doing before I post issues to the mailing list.
> Overall I have found it to very stable and mature.
>
> If you think I would be of benefit I would have 6-8 hours a week I can
> contribute to the project if that is sufficient enough, I know we're all
> fighting hard at the moment to keep our heads above water, so until things
> calm back down again that about all I'd be able to manage.
>
> Anyway let me know if I'd be of use, I have strong C# skills and 20+ years
> of development experience (obviously not all in C#).
>
> Kind Regards
> Noel
>
> --------------------------------------------------
> From: "Frank Yu" <fr...@farpoint.com>
> Sent: Sunday, October 31, 2010 9:44 AM
> To: <lu...@lucene.apache.org>; <ge...@lucene.apache.org>
> Cc: <lu...@lucene.apache.org>
> Subject: RE: Lucene.NET Community Status
>
>> Grand,
>>
>> I have been using the Lucene.net for a year now and it's a wonderful
>> project. I would like to participate and contribute in order to keep it
>> alive. Please count me in.
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Frank Yu
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Grant Ingersoll [mailto:gsingers@apache.org]
>> Sent: Saturday, October 30, 2010 9:55 AM
>> To: general@lucene.apache.org
>> Cc: lucene-net-user@lucene.apache.org; lucene-net-dev@lucene.apache.org
>> Subject: Re: Lucene.NET Community Status
>>
>>
>> On Oct 30, 2010, at 8:52 AM, George Aroush wrote:
>>
>>> Hi Grant,
>>>
>>> I'm perfectly fine going back to incubation, that will help us to
>>> re-validate this project and hopefully bring in some new blood. If we do
>>> so, beside the current committers, who have had experience with
>>> Lucene.Net
>>> and the Apache way, who else do we bring in as new initial committers?
>>> What
>>> criteria do we use? Should we start with the current committers and in
>>> 3-6
>>> months add / remove from the list?
>>
>> Here's the current list:
>> George Aroush george @ aroush.net
>> Işık YİĞİT (DIGY) digydigy @ gmail.com
>> Doug Sale dsale @ myspace-inc.com
>> Michael Garski mgarski @ myspace-inc.com
>>
>> Seeing how Doug, Isik and Michael haven't responded, you might want to
>> track them down. I think it is fine to see if they still want to
>> participate, but I'd look for other people who want to volunteer too. I'd
>> simply solicit names and add them to the Wiki proposal. I don't think
>> there is any requirement beyond that for incubation. What the project
>> needs right now is people who are willing to step up and act now.
>>
>>
>>>
>>> Btw, sorry to post this to 3 different mailing list, but I hope by doing
>>> so
>>> it gets some extra visibility.
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>>
>>> -- George
>>>
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: Grant Ingersoll [mailto:gsingers@apache.org]
>>> Sent: Saturday, October 30, 2010 6:59 AM
>>> To: lucene-net-user@lucene.apache.org
>>> Cc: general@lucene.apache.org; lucene-net-dev@lucene.apache.org
>>> Subject: Re: Lucene.NET Community Status
>>>
>>>
>>> On Oct 29, 2010, at 11:19 PM, George Aroush wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi Grant and all,
>>>>
>>>> I will get engaged with the project again. The way I see it, by the end
>>> of
>>>> the year, we must:
>>>>
>>>> 1) Clean up the website, and / or
>>>> 2) Create an official release off the current trunk, and
>>>> 3) Sometimes next year, port the most current version of Java Lucene.
>>>>
>>>> If by the end of the year, if we don't manage #1 and / or #2, Lucene.Net
>>>> should be at the mercy of Apache's PMC.
>>>
>>> Please see the original email below. You also need new blood
>>> contributing
>>> to the project. One active committer for a project that has been around
>>> this long is not enough. You also need a plan for self determination,
>>> i.e.
>>> to either become a top level project (i.e. lucenenet.apache.org or
>>> something
>>> like that) here at the ASF or for spinning out somewhere else under a new
>>> name. This will be better for the project as you will then be guided by
>>> a
>>> PMC that is made up of the community members who have a stake in the
>>> project, as opposed to now where you have a PMC, other than George, that
>>> is
>>> largely unaware of Lucene.NET and has no stake in Lucene.NET and is not
>>> informed enough to make decisions about new committers, releases, etc.
>>> and
>>> likely isn't even capable of running Lucene.NET (I'm on a Mac, for
>>> instance.)
>>>
>>> In fact, if I were active in this community, I would put the self
>>> determination piece of the puzzle before all others because it has a
>>> number
>>> of effects that make 1, 2 and 3 easier for you. Personally, I would go
>>> back
>>> to the Incubator with a proposal for re-entry there that adds at least
>>> 4-5
>>> new committers based on volunteers stepping up here. Once you have 4-5
>>> new
>>> committers, then you have people who can do the work to get a release
>>> out,
>>> clean up the website and, most importantly, learn how developing code at
>>> the
>>> ASF works. You also then have the genesis of a PMC that makes for a
>>> sustainable project and one where you can get 3 binding PMC votes for a
>>> release (which you may not be able to do at the moment under Lucene
>>> simply
>>> because other than George, there are not any .NET programmers on the PMC
>>> who
>>> can verify the release is viable.)
>>>
>>> I can help you craft the proposal to go into the Incubator, as I feel it
>>> is
>>> part of my duties as Chair to see some resolve on this project, but
>>> beyond
>>> that I personally am not interested in being involved. I do think there
>>> needs to be a .NET version of Lucene, though, so I wish you all the best
>>> of
>>> luck in keeping the project alive.
>>>
>>> -Grant
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>>
>>>> The key for our success is for the community working together -- we
>>>> can't
>>>> have few folks doing the heavy lifting of the project.
>>>>
>>>> Regards,
>>>>
>>>> -- George
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> -----Original Message-----
>>>> From: Grant Ingersoll [mailto:gsingers@apache.org]
>>>> Sent: Friday, October 29, 2010 4:48 PM
>>>> To: lucene-net-user@lucene.apache.org
>>>> Cc: Lucene mailing list; lucene-net-dev@lucene.apache.org
>>>> Subject: Lucene.NET Community Status
>>>>
>>>> FYI: This message was sent to the lucene-net-dev@lucene.a.o list on Oct.
>>> 25
>>>> and elicited zero replies. I am sending it here in the hopes that some
>>>> of
>>>> you will step forward and either bring this project back to life via
>>>> going
>>>> back to the Incubator or we put it in the Apache Attic and someone can
>>> take
>>>> and maintain it somewhere else under a different name per the terms of
>>>> the
>>>> Apache License.
>>>>
>>>> ---
>>>> Hi .Netters,
>>>>
>>>> The Lucene PMC would like to ask everyone involved with .NET if they
>>>> might
>>>> chime in on the status of this project. There hasn't been a commit
>>>> since
>>>> July 2010 (and that one was trivial and there were only 2 in June) and
>>> there
>>>> seems to be very little activity on the dev mailing list. There also
>>>> has
>>>> not been a release in a long time. This was brought up at the last
>>>> Lucene
>>>> Board Report and it doesn't appear that there has been any action since.
>>> A
>>>> community should be able to withstand the loss of a single committer,
>>>> but
>>>> here it appears that there are no longer any committers willing to work
>>>> on
>>>> the project.
>>>>
>>>> In order to remedy the situation, we would like the following things to
>>>> be
>>>> done:
>>>> 1. The community needs to show some (sustained) life. Not just in
>>>> code,
>>>> but in discussion of the project's future, etc. We would expect the
>>>> committers to take a leadership role here.
>>>> 2. The community needs to do a real release that is voted on by the PMC.
>>>> 3. The webpage needs to be updated to reflect that those previous
>>>> "source"
>>>> releases are not real releases and should be taken down. Likewise, the
>>> news
>>>> section should not tout these non-releases as releases. The website
>>> should
>>>> also meet the PMC Branding guidelines recently sent out.
>>>> 4. Identify some new blood for contributors/committers. Or the current
>>>> committers need to step up more and take a lead role in the community.
>>>>
>>>> We would like to see action on all of these things by the end of this
>>> year.
>>>> If they can't be met, there will be one of the following actions:
>>>> 1. Go back into Incubation
>>>> 2. Go into the Apache Attic. If someone wants to take the code base and
>>>> fork it out as a project somewhere else under a new name that does not
>>>> use
>>>> the Lucene trademark name (since that is owned by the ASF) than that is
>>>> perfectly acceptable under the Apache license.
>>>>
>>>> If the conditions can be met, we think that the project should spin
>>>> itself
>>>> out as its own Top Level ASF project with its own PMC so that its future
>>>> direction can be set by the stakeholders of the project and not by the
>>>> larger Lucene project as a whole.
>>>>
>>>> Sincerely,
>>>> Grant Ingersoll
>>>> On behalf of the Lucene PMC=
>>>>
>>>
>>> --------------------------
>>> Grant Ingersoll
>>> http://www.lucidimagination.com
>>>
>>
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