[REPORT] LUCENE.NET - March 2025

[Paul Irwin <pa...@gmail.com>]

(Sending in collaboration with and on behalf of Shad Storhaug, Lucene.NET
Chair)

## Description:
The mission of Lucene.Net is the creation and maintenance of software
related
to Search engine library targeted at .NET runtime users.

## Project Status:
Current project status: Ongoing with moderate activity
Issues for the board: None

## Membership Data:
Apache Lucene.Net was founded 2012-08-14 (13 years ago)
There are currently 16 committers and 14 PMC members in this project.
The Committer-to-PMC ratio is 8:7.

Community changes, past quarter:
- No new PMC members. Last addition was Ron Clabo on 2022-03-02.
- No new committers. Last addition was Ron Clabo on 2021-06-02.

## Project Activity:
Apache Lucene.Net delivered the latest 4.8.0-beta00017 release on
2024-10-29.
Activity continues towards a final 4.8.0-beta00018 release, although
activity
has slightly decreased since the last report. As of the last report, we were
46% complete by issue count towards the next release; currently we are about
80% complete by issue count once the open PRs are reviewed and merged, and
necessary dependencies are updated. While we hoped to have the release done
by
the end of the first quarter of 2025, it now looks like the second quarter
is
more likely.

We also have launched a new repository (lucenenet-codeanalysis-dev) for
contributor-use-only Roslyn analyzers to help detect code problems in an
automated way in PRs, as well as provide automated fixes for them in the
contributors' IDEs.

## Community Health:
Nearly all metrics indicate a slower quarter than last:
- dev@lucenenet.apache.org had a 29% decrease in traffic in the past quarter
  (402 emails compared to 564)
- 36 commits in the past quarter (-79% change)
- 3 code contributors in the past quarter (-62% change)
- 38 PRs opened on GitHub, past quarter (-36% change)
- 36 PRs closed on GitHub, past quarter (-41% change)
- 30 issues opened on GitHub, past quarter (-37% change)
- 37 issues closed on GitHub, past quarter (-21% change)

Despite this slowdown, we hope that getting the next release complete and
announcing to the community that we are closer to a final release will help
spur more activity.

Paul Irwin