Hi Folks,
On behalf of Lucene.Net mentor, committers and community, this is a vote call to graduate the Lucene.Net project (http://incubator.apache.org/lucene.net/) as a sub-project under Apache Lucene. The Lucene.Net mentor, committers, and the community have voted like so: +1 Erik Hatcher (mentor) +1 George Aroush (committer) +1 Isik YIGIT (aka: DIGY) (committer) +1 Doug Sale (committer) +1 a total of 70+ Lucene.Net members / followers / users. (with no -1 or 0 votes) The vote result can be found here: http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/incubator-lucene-net-user/200909.mb ox/%3c166a01ca3739$13947380$3abd5a...@net%3e In addition, the Java Lucene PMC have casted their vote to accept Lucene.Net as a subproject under Apache Lucene. The vote result is as follow: +1 Andi Vajda +1 Andrzej Bialecki +1 Michael McCandless +1 Jukka Zitting +1 Grant Ingersoll +1 Michael Busch +1 Chris Hostetter +1 Ted Dunning +1 Otis Gospodnetic +1 Simon Willnauer (with no -1 or 0 votes) The vote result can be found here: http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/lucene-general/200910.mbox/%3c2cd40 1ca4863$434ef290$c9ecd7...@net%3e The rationale for graduation is: * Lucene.Net has been under incubation since April 2006 (3 1/2 years now). * During incubation, Lucene.Net has: - Made, 1 official release (Incubating-Apache-Lucene.Net-2.0-004-11Mar07). - Released, as SVN tag, 18 ports of Java Lucene (from 1.9 to 2.4.0). - Released, as SVN tag, port of WordNet.Net 2.0, SpellChecker.Net 2.0, Snowball.Net 2.0, and Highlighter.Net 2.0. - Released, MSDN style documentation for the above release. - Accepted, two new committers: Isik YIGIT (DIGY) digydigy @ gmail.com and Doug Sale dsale @ myspace-inc.com were added in November 2008 (George Aroush george @ aroush.net is the original committer). - The community has grown, with a healthy followers. - Is being used by well established companies in production (I'm not sure what's the legality to mention their names here, or even if I have the complete list). - Is being used by Beagle project. * Work is already under way to port Java Lucene 2.9 to Lucene.Net 2.9 If this graduation is approved, Lucene.Net will be officially called "Apache Lucene.Net" Please cast your votes: [ ] +1 Graduate Lucene.Net as a sub-project under Apache Lucene. [ ] -1 Lucene.Net is not ready to graduate as a sub-project under Apache Lucene, because ... This vote will close on October 20th, 2009. Regards, -- George
