Hi Itamar, I think what you would do is throw together a proposal mentioning things like:
* who would be the initial committers for the project * whether those committers have Apache ICLAs [1] on file, or not * what¹s the rationale behind the project (yours would have strong rationale, since Lucene is home to more than a few ports of the core Java lib) * what the licensing issues to be dealt with are * what the affiliations of your current committers are In general, whether you go the route of the Apache Incubator [2] or not, these guidelines here [3] in general apply. You would then approach either the Apache Incubator and grow your project there, with the intent of graduating to a Lucene sub-project, or you could go to the Lucene PMC and try to start a project directly there. Since I didn¹t follow the genesis of the other Lucene ports, let¹s see what they think (I¹m CC¹ing gene...@lucene to find out). Cheers, Chris [1] http://www.apache.org/licenses/icla.txt [2] http://incubator.apache.org [3] http://incubator.apache.org/guides/proposal.html On 5/19/10 3:57 PM, "Itamar Syn-Hershko" <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi all, > > Following a recent discussion with Otis, I would like to request for the > CLucene project to join the ASF, as a sub-project of Lucene. > > CLucene is an important port of Lucene, and is being used very widely for a > few years now. The project aims to be attractive to people who like to use > Lucene but wants to increase performance or reduce the overheads of using a > JVM, for C++ developers; and eventually for users of various high-level or > scripting languages. > > We are currently hosting on SourceForge; our latest release conforms to Java > Lucene 1.9.1, but the master branch in our git repository works with 2.3.2 > indexes, and is being worked on for a while now. More info is available in our > website (http://clucene.sourceforge.net/) and project page > (https://sourceforge.net/projects/clucene/). > > CLucene is currently released under the LGPL and the Apache 2.0 licenses > (dual). If this needs changing, we will need some legal help to do that > correctly. > > Please advise on how to pursue this, and what needs to be done from our end. > This move is very important to us, and could also benefit the Lucene > community. Hopefully, we could make this happen. > > Itamar. > ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Chris Mattmann, Ph.D. Senior Computer Scientist NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory Pasadena, CA 91109 USA Office: 171-266B, Mailstop: 171-246 Email: [email protected] WWW: http://sunset.usc.edu/~mattmann/ ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Adjunct Assistant Professor, Computer Science Department University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089 USA ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
