Dear Andi I probably missed the mail to vote, I apoligize for that. At Antwerp University we still use PyLucene for several purposes on production services. So please continue the good work.
Best regards Bart dr. Bart Moelans (he/him/his<https://www.uantwerpen.be/en/about-uantwerp/organisation/mission-and-vision/diversity/diversity-themes/gender/she-her-hers--he-him/>) Technologisch Manager [8P7IGoY8iEEZwAAAAASUVORK5CYII=] Bibliotheek UAntwerpen Stadscampus - Lokaal Ve35.304 Venusstraat 35 - 2000 Antwerpen - België bart.moel...@uantwerpen.be T +32 486 78 01 85 [phgdtZ4L+dRbHxpMAR8wAAAABJRU5ErkJggg==] From: Andi Vajda <va...@apache.org> Date: Wednesday, 28 February 2024 at 20:48 To: pylucene-dev@lucene.apache.org <pylucene-dev@lucene.apache.org>, priv...@lucene.apache.org <priv...@lucene.apache.org> Subject: The future of the PyLucene project CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Do not click links or open attachments unless you recognize the sender and know the content is safe. Hi PyLucene users and Lucene PMC, A week ago, on Wednesday February 21st, I started a voting thread for qualifying a new PyLucene release candidate to catch-up with the recent Lucene 9.10.0 release and fix a bug in JCC. Usually these voting threads get a couple of +1 for PyLucene users before getting votes from a couple of people on the Lucene PMC, always the same ones ;-) Three PMC +1 votes -> a release can happen. This time, crickets, the voting thread has been completely quiet. If there are no PyLucene users anymore, maybe it's time to shut the project down ? Personally, I think that the "software value" in the project is all in JCC. PyLucene itself is 99% machine generated by JCC around Java Lucene. Of course, having Java Lucene available that way from Python is pretty cool so I don't want diminish PyLucene's "usage value", but from a software engineering standpoint, the itch, if you prefer, all the cool stuff is done in JCC. If the Lucene PMC agrees and no PyLucene users come forward, I propose the following: - shutdown the PyLucene project - fork JCC to my gitlab (https://eur01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fgitlab.pyicu.org%2Fmain&data=05%7C02%7CBart.Moelans%40uantwerpen.be%7C5963406229204f43d03f08dc389639d9%7C792e08fb2d544a8eaf72202548136ef6%7C0%7C0%7C638447465066808772%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C0%7C%7C%7C&sdata=YMILZApLUKkHQxaI03oq%2ByJgHY9i%2FORWGIVQxRkS9kw%3D&reserved=0<https://gitlab.pyicu.org/main>) where it can get the occasional fix or improvement before being released to PyPI. JCC has been distributed from PyPI forever, https://eur01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fpypi.org%2Fproject%2FJCC%2F%23history&data=05%7C02%7CBart.Moelans%40uantwerpen.be%7C5963406229204f43d03f08dc389639d9%7C792e08fb2d544a8eaf72202548136ef6%7C0%7C0%7C638447465066816875%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C0%7C%7C%7C&sdata=NfACVt8r1kQYc9XVELlQFJwI0ZkHSGxJjI5pufLWDLY%3D&reserved=0<https://pypi.org/project/JCC/#history> so JCC users shouldn't even notice this... What do you all think ? This message is not a vote, I'm just trying to gauge interest in PyLucene and JCC. Andi.. ps: for those who have never heard of PyLucene, it is a sub-project of Apache Lucene hosted here: https://eur01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Flucene.apache.org%2Fpylucene%2Findex.html&data=05%7C02%7CBart.Moelans%40uantwerpen.be%7C5963406229204f43d03f08dc389639d9%7C792e08fb2d544a8eaf72202548136ef6%7C0%7C0%7C638447465066822626%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C0%7C%7C%7C&sdata=MvzYQSDXSZen%2FCzO5YLhPETTEDKZQX5UqGk6vcp5y1I%3D&reserved=0<https://lucene.apache.org/pylucene/index.html> pps: for those who have never heard of JCC, it is a sub-project of PyLucene hosted here: https://eur01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Flucene.apache.org%2Fpylucene%2Fjcc%2Findex.html&data=05%7C02%7CBart.Moelans%40uantwerpen.be%7C5963406229204f43d03f08dc389639d9%7C792e08fb2d544a8eaf72202548136ef6%7C0%7C0%7C638447465066827160%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C0%7C%7C%7C&sdata=zVv97tOHJurSW2psjdBhd16xFasiZGbjaCX2D3xFY3s%3D&reserved=0<https://lucene.apache.org/pylucene/jcc/index.html>
