Grant,
I've been a user of lucene.net for years and would find its loss a
great setback to the community. I've spelunked through the code base a
bit here and there to track down issues, but have not been comfortable
enough to contribute. As a user i've been very happy with lucene.net
to the point that I have not been monitoring its progress and had been
unaware that the situation was this bad.
If one of the present comitters can point me to some guidance on what
is the best way I can start contributing and what the apache process
is. I can tackle bugs and ensure lucene.net works well on mono. We're
currently using 2.4.2 since last time i tried 2.9.1 (back in May) it
had issues with mono, so i guess fixing whatever caused that problem
(if it still exists) would be a good introduction to contributing.
If we can't get the required traction going by the end of the year I'd
much rather see Lucene.NET go back into Incubation than to see it
fork. I feel that diverging from the lucene brand cannot do anything
but hurt the project further
cheers,
Arne Claassen
MindTouch
San Diego, CA
http://twitter.com/sdether
On Oct 30, 2010, at 3:34 AM, Grant Ingersoll wrote:
Thanks, Aaron.
By the way, to all others reading this: please do not reply to me
privately. It does nothing to help the community and in fact just
reinforces in my mind that the project is not sustainable at the ASF
because people aren't willing to publicly support it.
-Grant
On Oct 29, 2010, at 8:07 PM, Aaron Powell wrote:
I'm sure I'm not the only one who would be really disappointed to
loose
Lucene.Net from the .Net communities toolbox.
I'd be happy to offer up my services to keep the project alive.
I'll admit I
don't know much about the way projects are run under the Apache
umbrella,
but I'm keen to ensure that Lucene.Net doesn't die :).
Aaron Powell
Umbraco Ninja
http://www.aaron-powell.com | http://twitter.com/slace | Skype:
aaron.l.powell | MSN: aaz...@hotmail.com
On Sat, Oct 30, 2010 at 7:48 AM, Grant Ingersoll
<gsing...@apache.org>wrote:
FYI: This message was sent to the lucene-net-...@lucene.a.o list
on Oct.
25 and elicited zero replies. I am sending it here in the hopes
that some
of you will step forward and either bring this project back to
life via
going back to the Incubator or we put it in the Apache Attic and
someone can
take and maintain it somewhere else under a different name per the
terms of
the Apache License.
---
Hi .Netters,
The Lucene PMC would like to ask everyone involved with .NET if
they might
chime in on the status of this project. There hasn't been a
commit since
July 2010 (and that one was trivial and there were only 2 in June)
and there
seems to be very little activity on the dev mailing list. There
also has
not been a release in a long time. This was brought up at the
last Lucene
Board Report and it doesn't appear that there has been any action
since. A
community should be able to withstand the loss of a single
committer, but
here it appears that there are no longer any committers willing to
work on
the project.
In order to remedy the situation, we would like the following
things to be
done:
1. The community needs to show some (sustained) life. Not just
in code,
but in discussion of the project's future, etc. We would expect the
committers to take a leadership role here.
2. The community needs to do a real release that is voted on by
the PMC.
3. The webpage needs to be updated to reflect that those previous
"source"
releases are not real releases and should be taken down.
Likewise, the news
section should not tout these non-releases as releases. The
website should
also meet the PMC Branding guidelines recently sent out.
4. Identify some new blood for contributors/committers. Or the
current
committers need to step up more and take a lead role in the
community.
We would like to see action on all of these things by the end of
this year.
If they can't be met, there will be one of the following actions:
1. Go back into Incubation
2. Go into the Apache Attic. If someone wants to take the code
base and
fork it out as a project somewhere else under a new name that does
not use
the Lucene trademark name (since that is owned by the ASF) than
that is
perfectly acceptable under the Apache license.
If the conditions can be met, we think that the project should
spin itself
out as its own Top Level ASF project with its own PMC so that its
future
direction can be set by the stakeholders of the project and not by
the
larger Lucene project as a whole.
Sincerely,
Grant Ingersoll
On behalf of the Lucene PMC
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Grant Ingersoll
http://www.lucidimagination.com
