Mark, can you open an issue for this and lable it as:

gsoc2012
lucene-gsoc-12
mentor

just like this one https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LUCENE-2562

thanks,

simon

On Fri, Mar 2, 2012 at 12:26 PM, mark harwood <markharw...@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
>>>Does anyone have any ideas?
>
> A framework for match metadata?
>
> Similar to the way tokenization was changed to allow tokenizers to to enrich 
> a stream of tokens with arbitrary "attributes", Scorers could provide 
> "MatchAttributes" to provide arbitrary metadata about the stream of matches 
> they produce.
> Same model is used - callers decide in advance which attribute decorations 
> they want to consume and Scorers modify a singleton object which can be 
> cloned if multiple attributes need to be retained by the caller.
>
> Helps support highlighting, explain and enables communication of added 
> information between query objects in the tree.
> LUCENE-1999 was an example of a horrible work-around where additional match 
> information that was required was smuggled through by bit-twiddling the score 
>  - this is because score is the only bit of match context we currently pass 
> in Lucene APIs.
>
> Cheers
> Mark
>
>
>
>
> ________________________________
> From: Robert Muir <rcm...@gmail.com>
> To: dev@lucene.apache.org
> Sent: Friday, 2 March 2012, 10:30
> Subject: GSOC 2012?
>
> Hello,
>
> I was asked by a student if we are participating in GSOC this year. I
> hope the answer is yes?
>
> If we are planning to, I think it would be good if we came up with a
> list on the wiki of potential tasks. Does anyone have any ideas?
>
> One suggested idea I had (similar to LUCENE-2959 last year) would be
> to add a flexible query expansion framework.
>
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