Hi PyLucene users and Lucene PMC,
A week ago, on Wednesday February 21st, I started a voting thread for
qualifying a new PyLucene release candidate to catch-up with the recent
Lucene 9.10.0 release and fix a bug in JCC.
Usually these voting threads get a couple of +1 for PyLucene users before
getting votes from a couple of people on the Lucene PMC, always the same
ones ;-) Three PMC +1 votes -> a release can happen.
This time, crickets, the voting thread has been completely quiet.
If there are no PyLucene users anymore, maybe it's time to shut the project
down ? Personally, I think that the "software value" in the project is all
in JCC. PyLucene itself is 99% machine generated by JCC around Java Lucene.
Of course, having Java Lucene available that way from Python is pretty cool
so I don't want diminish PyLucene's "usage value", but from a software
engineering standpoint, the itch, if you prefer, all the cool stuff is done
in JCC.
If the Lucene PMC agrees and no PyLucene users come forward, I propose the
following:
- shutdown the PyLucene project
- fork JCC to my gitlab (https://gitlab.pyicu.org/main) where it can
get the occasional fix or improvement before being released to PyPI.
JCC has been distributed from PyPI forever,
https://pypi.org/project/JCC/#history
so JCC users shouldn't even notice this...
What do you all think ?
This message is not a vote, I'm just trying to gauge interest in PyLucene
and JCC.
Andi..
ps: for those who have never heard of PyLucene, it is a sub-project of
Apache Lucene hosted here:
https://lucene.apache.org/pylucene/index.html
pps: for those who have never heard of JCC, it is a sub-project of PyLucene
hosted here: https://lucene.apache.org/pylucene/jcc/index.html
