> 1. We'd like to organize several subprojects we wish to introduce (Core, > NLP, Recommenders/Taste, Ports - C++, etc.) that wouldn't really fit as > Lucene subprojects.
And the collections package, vectors, verification and evaluation code, potential test data sets... yes, makes sense to make it a TLP. I don't think Lucene folks will mind -- it's not like Mahout is going to depart from using Lucene/ Hadoop, etc. Not that my voice counts much here, but +1 to the idea. Dawid