Hi all it is pretty difficult to write a message like this. I've been one of Lucene.Net's mentors during Apache incubation and even though I never contributed anything significant (at least code-wise) I really care for the project and its community.
For more than a year Shad has been the only committer who actually committed to the code base but despite his herculean effort we haven't been able to attract new contributors. Of the project management committee most people seem to be absent by now and the project has rightfully raised concerns by the board [1][2] There really are only two options. * we create a credible plan how to get Lucene.Net back into a healthy state with multiple contributors and a more active PMC and execute on it * we start the process of sending the project to the Apache Attic http://attic.apache.org/ (which is not a one-way road, projects ca be re-surrected if a new community emerges). We probably should start with trying the first option. We have tried to find new contributors in the past but haven't been succeful, let's give it one more try. What we need are people who are willing to contribute for more than a single pull request or two and who are willing to become members of the developer community here at Apache. If you think this description fits you, please raise your hand :-) Stefan [1] https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/c44ef94020271b3823fe356a255d693a76287c1214743dfc074621de@%3Cdev.lucenenet.apache.org%3E [2] https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/70a34c2cd3298afe02827c219e2dc2b66ae594aabcbaa33265301a44@%3Cdev.lucenenet.apache.org%3E
