> - I want to illustrate that there are plenty of search > engines. Each of them having some pros & some cons. >
yes, so far you only wrote about htdig's pros. > Some of them can be setup within minutes, some of them > will require some (Java) programming skills, some of > them are pretty scalable and some are not ... > okay > - You should also honor that fact that if you want me to > volunteer, that I should have a major say in which search > engine should be used because it is my spare time and > it is time that is not beeing payed. > well, we like to discuss topics like this in the open, as opposed to having one guy making all the decisions (especially with potential new members) is that so strange? It's not that we don't trust you .. it's just that we haven't heard any hard arguments against lucene yet. For the record, I asked whether you would be interested in contributing, sorry if I gave the impression I was inviting you, I was thinking it would eventually lead to that .. again, I can't make that kind of decision alone, so you would go through some kind of 'evaluation period'. All committers have to go through that because we wish to have only dedicated people on board (otherwise there would be chaos, would you accept a new member to your project without some kind of profiling?) > - If you or the AndroMDA community already has a > favourite search engine you should clearly state > that fact. And you shouldn't send me links to > some blog entries. They are usually not containing > any unbiassed opinions as well. > Can you please state what kind of emails we are allowed to send you, and which not ? With the link I sent I just wanted to capture how I (as a newbie to search engines) perceive Lucene, I can't just ignore what other people are saying, can I ? That way I prefer to make an objective decision based on all possible input (of which you are one of course). > - As I did lay out, I did a lectorate for a German Lucene > Book, which means that I read throughout all of the > various source code snippets, and indeed I even tested > some source code examples. But it's a matter of fact that > I did not try to run a complete Lucene instance nor did > I try to write my own Lucene document types (for example > PDF or OpenOffice). But at least I do have a substantial > impression about what Lucene does and what not, and I > am able to say that it is usually more time consuming > to setup Lucene compared to any other UNIX based search > engine that ships as a RPM or DEB package. > could you please tell us why ? sorry if asking this offends you, but we are really interested to know, and that way we have a certain peace of mind. > - Can you tell me what type of document you want to > index (e.g. HTML, PDF etc.)? only html > - Do you want to index text files only or binary > files as well? only text > - Are you willing to code some Lucene code or do > you want me to do that? > we prefer someone to take care of it .. but I wouldn't mind writing it myelf, it will just take more time since I'm very busy regards -- Wouter ------------------------------------------------------- The SF.Net email is sponsored by: Beat the post-holiday blues Get a FREE limited edition SourceForge.net t-shirt from ThinkGeek. It's fun and FREE -- well, almost....http://www.thinkgeek.com/sfshirt _______________________________________________ Andromda-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/andromda-devel
