I presume this codebase is substantial enough that it requires
incubation? Or because it was a single developer, could he contribute
it directly to the Lucene project and bypass incubation?
Erik
On Feb 14, 2005, at 8:35 AM, Garrett Rooney wrote:
I'd like to propose the Lucene4c project for incubation.
Lucene4c is a port of the Lucene search engine from Java to C, using
the Apache Portable Runtime library for portability. The project is
far from complete, and code to date is primarily concerned with
reading an existing Lucene index, which must be created with another
Lucene implementation (currently only Java Lucene has been tested).
The plan is to complete support for the rest of the index format and
then move on to implementing search functionality (beyond the current
proof of concept code anyway). Once we've reached that point work
will begin on actual indexing functionality so that Lucene4c can stand
alone, without the use of another Lucene implementation for
bootstrapping.
The project would be part of the new Lucene top leve project, and Erik
Hatcher has offerred to serve as a sponsor.
While I have yet to expand the community of developers further than
myself, I am anxious to do so, and I expect to be able to draw both
from people as of yet unassociated with Lucene who have expressed
interest in such a project and from existing Lucene developers who
have expressed interest in establishing cross-language compatibility
tests for the various Lucene ports.
Lucene4c already has ties to existing ASF projects, particularly
Lucene itself and APR. Bringing it into the ASF would only strengthen
those ties.
More details, including where to get the current release or
development versions of the code can be found at the Lucene4c web site
at http://electricjellyfish.net/garrett/lucene4c/
-garrett
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