I think it speaks to the maturity of the project ... Lucene has
solved some of the easier problems in the problem space and the ones
that remain are ... difficult.
I recently introduced Lucene/Nutch to a group of ~10 relatively
capable Java developers. While they find it easy to use, they are
also learning that search/info. retrieval is a deceptively
challenging field. From their "fresh" perspective, "this stuff
[Lucene/Nutch] really works well once you get it going, but you
really have to know what you are doing if you want to get the most
from it".
Building on Erik Hatcher's "try-it-out" mantra, it might be
interesting to see if contributions go up if we publicize specific
test cases to demonstrate/resolve the problems.
-h
On 25-Feb-2010, at 5:18 PM, Jason Rutherglen wrote:
Who the heck is in charge here?
Maybe it's Colonel Walter E. Kurtz?
Intuitively perhaps people expect the committers to drive the project?
When they don't see this are they less likely to contribute?
On Thu, Feb 25, 2010 at 10:33 AM, Mark Miller
<markrmil...@gmail.com> wrote:
Hahaha - you have a sly humor.
I totally agree though. Features are long overdo, and the
committers are
lazy.
I call for a cancellation of all of their paychecks and a stern
warning
about slacking off in Lucene land.
There are dozens of features that are just taking way to long -
whatever
happened to CSF? That feature is so 2006, and we still
don't have it? I'm completely disturbed about the whole situation
myself.
Who the heck is in charge here?
On 02/25/2010 12:51 PM, Jason Rutherglen wrote:
It'd be great to see the Lucene committers (besides Michael
McCandless) work on the core of Lucene and push some of these long
overdue features to fruition?
On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 5:42 AM, Grant
Ingersoll<gsing...@apache.org>
wrote:
What would it be?
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