For some reason I've never been confused by the naming. I think in my mind and when I talk about this, I say "Lucene project" when I mean the TLP, and Lucene when I talk about the original Lucene. Though I'd personally be said to see the original Lucene get renamed now, I'm open. :)
I agree about Grant about where we are going with Lucene TLP, and I'm very much looking forward to new things that will grow under the Lucene name. Otis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Simpy -- http://www.simpy.com/ - Tag - Search - Share ----- Original Message ---- From: Grant Ingersoll <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: java-dev@lucene.apache.org Sent: Tuesday, April 10, 2007 9:13:36 PM Subject: Re: Lucene Branding: the TLP, and "Lucene Java" No, you are not the only one... Many a sleepless night spent on it... :-) I usually try to refer to it as Lucene Java, but old habits die hard and often times I just call it Lucene. I think the name has a good brand at this point and is very strongly associated w/ the Java library. I seem to recall when they were forming the TLP, that the original proposal was search.a.o, but then changed b/c the ASF didn't like generic names (or at least that is how I recall it.) And, of course, with Hadoop and the potential for Tika/Lius, it isn't just search anymore. I have often thought about an Apache "Text" project, that could eventually hold a whole family of text based tools like Lucene, Tika, Hadoop, Solr, etc. plus things like part of speech taggers, clustering/classification algorithms, UIMA, etc. all under one roof. But that is just my two cents and I don't know if it fits with what other people have in mind. There are a lot of OSS tools out there for these things, but none bring together a whole suite under a brand like Apache. -Grant On Apr 10, 2007, at 8:41 PM, Chris Hostetter wrote: > > I was motivated to start this thread by LUCENE-860, but it's been > in the > back of my mind for a while. > > As the Lucene Top Level Project grows and get's more Sub-Projects, I > (personally) have been finding it hard in email/documentation/ > discussion > to clarify when people are refering to the "Lucene" Top Level Project > versus the "Lucene" java project. I can't help but wonder if the TLP > should have a different name, or if "Lucene Java" should taken on a > more > specific name that doesn't just sound like a name followed a > langauge -- > ie: JLucene, LuceneJ ... anything that makes it more clear that > when the > word "Lucene" is used it's talking about the broder Top Level project > address all aspects of OSS Search Software. > > Am I the only one that wonders about this as time goes on? > > -Hoss > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -------------------------- Grant Ingersoll Center for Natural Language Processing http://www.cnlp.org Read the Lucene Java FAQ at http://wiki.apache.org/jakarta-lucene/ LuceneFAQ --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
