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Yonik Seeley commented on LUCENE-7996:
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Ah, I see.  Thanks for the pointer!

> Should we require positive scores?
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>
>                 Key: LUCENE-7996
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LUCENE-7996
>             Project: Lucene - Core
>          Issue Type: Wish
>            Reporter: Adrien Grand
>            Priority: Minor
>             Fix For: master (8.0)
>
>         Attachments: LUCENE-7996.patch, LUCENE-7996.patch, LUCENE-7996.patch
>
>
> Having worked on MAXSCORE recently, things would be simpler if we required 
> that scores are positive. Practically, this would mean 
>  - forbidding/fixing similarities that may produce negative scores (we have 
> some of them)
>  - forbidding things like negative boosts
> So I'd be curious to have opinions whether this would be a sane requirement 
> or whether we need to be able to cope with negative scores eg. because some 
> similarities that we want to support produce negative scores by design.



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