I'd leave it open for another day or two. -Grant
On Aug 10, 2010, at 2:16 PM, <karl.wri...@nokia.com> <karl.wri...@nokia.com> wrote: > Shall we call a vote on the name change? Or should we leave the floor open > for other proposals for a while? > > Karl > > -----Original Message----- > From: ext Grant Ingersoll [mailto:gsing...@apache.org] > Sent: Tuesday, August 10, 2010 2:09 PM > To: connectors-dev@incubator.apache.org > Subject: Re: Project status and name > > > On Aug 10, 2010, at 8:05 AM, <karl.wri...@nokia.com> <karl.wri...@nokia.com> > wrote: > >> Folks, >> >> Lucene Connectors Framework is currently an incubating subproject of Lucene. >> The PMC has indicated that it's not thrilled with the idea of LCF being a >> subproject, > > Minor clarification: The PMC hasn't said no at this point, but it also hasn't > been discussed. Given some of the recent restructuring, I was merely > speculating privately to Karl that it likely would not accept it, but that is > not anything official. Not that it needs to be decided now anyway. > > FWIW, the Board isn't usually happy w/ PMC's that are umbrella projects, with > separate SVN, JIRA, etc. See the discussions in the archives around Mahout, > Nutch, Lucy and Tika. When LCF was brought into incubation, there wasn't as > much of a concern as there is now, so it is not that LCF did anything wrong. > Besides, LCF is really independent of Lucene and useful w/o connecting to > search and should have it's own management anyway. > >> and that its status should change at some point in the future. Note that >> this status change would be theoretically independent of the project name, >> but potentially we'd consider changing the project name at that time as well. >> >> There's beginning to be a considerable amount of content floating around >> that talks about LCF. If there is a possibility of a name change for this >> project, I'd like to open the discussion as to whether we should change the >> name, and if so, what to. >> >> FWIW, the only other possibility I've heard mentioned so far is "Apache >> Connectors Framework". > > I think this works well and abbreviates nicely to ACF (of course, I was the > one who suggested it, so I'm biased). Note, there is no reason it can't be > called the Lucene Connectors Framework, but that might pigeonhole it such > that people think it only works with Lucene, which simply isn't true. > > I agree, we should do this change sooner rather than later, if it is going to > be done. > > -Grant -------------------------- Grant Ingersoll http://www.lucidimagination.com/ Search the Lucene ecosystem docs using Solr/Lucene: http://www.lucidimagination.com/search
