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Posted to dev@lucene.apache.org by Erik Hatcher <er...@ehatchersolutions.com> on 2006/10/15 12:13:49 UTC
Fwd: CLucene incubation - call for a mentor
forwarding this on to perhaps a wider audience.
perhaps this can dove-tail with the Lucy incubation?
Begin forwarded message:
> From: "Ben van Klinken" <bv...@gmail.com>
> Date: October 14, 2006 3:20:10 AM EDT
> To: general@lucene.apache.org
> Subject: CLucene incubation - call for a mentor
> Reply-To: general@lucene.apache.org
>
> Hi,
>
> I am one of the developers of CLucene, a C++ port of Lucene.
>
> A long while back, CLucene was invited to join the ASF incubation
> program under Lucene. For various reasons this hasn't happend yet. But
> CLucene has still been happily progressing and interest in the project
> continues to increase - many open source projects (such as ht://dig
> and strigi) as well as many companies use CLucene.
>
> CLucene would of course do much better if we were part of the big
> happy family of Lucene and its sub-projects. However, I believe our
> main obstacle to this is the absence of an ASF mentor.
>
> So basically I'm asking this: would Apache Lucene still like to have
> us? If yes, would anyone be interested, or know of someone interested
> in being our mentor?
>
> Look forward to a response,
>
> Ben
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Re: CLucene incubation - call for a mentor
Posted by Ben van Klinken <bv...@gmail.com>.
Hi,
Lucy is certainly an interesting project. There is a great advantage
of having a C language lucene which doesn't conform as closely to the
java lucene api (as CLucene does). I imagine there are many
optimisations available. But CLucene does offer something to
developers, among other things: a fairly complete port (most features
are implemented) which is high-performance, portable, extensible, and
not too hard to learn (especially if you've already done some work
with java lucene already). There are also quite a lot of projects
using it now, which must means something :)
cheers,
ben
On 15/10/06, Marvin Humphrey <ma...@rectangular.com> wrote:
>
> On Oct 15, 2006, at 3:13 AM, Erik Hatcher wrote:
>
> > perhaps this can dove-tail with the Lucy incubation?
>
> Lucy is all new code, so the project isn't actually passing through
> the incubator. We're looking at what Lucene did, what Ferret (Ruby/
> C, Dave Balmain) did, and what KinoSearch (Perl/C, myself) did,
> cherry-picking the best bits, and synthesizing something new. I
> don't really see how that process can be reconciled with the concept
> of importing CLucene (C++) en toto. I imagine Ben would bring a lot
> to Lucy, though, should he choose to start contributing. (Same for
> other CLucene authors; I'm only familiar with Ben.)
>
> Marvin Humphrey
> Rectangular Research
> http://www.rectangular.com/
>
>
>
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Re: CLucene incubation - call for a mentor
Posted by Marvin Humphrey <ma...@rectangular.com>.
On Oct 15, 2006, at 3:13 AM, Erik Hatcher wrote:
> perhaps this can dove-tail with the Lucy incubation?
Lucy is all new code, so the project isn't actually passing through
the incubator. We're looking at what Lucene did, what Ferret (Ruby/
C, Dave Balmain) did, and what KinoSearch (Perl/C, myself) did,
cherry-picking the best bits, and synthesizing something new. I
don't really see how that process can be reconciled with the concept
of importing CLucene (C++) en toto. I imagine Ben would bring a lot
to Lucy, though, should he choose to start contributing. (Same for
other CLucene authors; I'm only familiar with Ben.)
Marvin Humphrey
Rectangular Research
http://www.rectangular.com/
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