Marvin Humphrey wrote on 7/1/10 12:08 PM: > ... but I'm dissatisfied with the second half: > > We acknowledge that Apache seems like a natural home for Lucy given that > it is also the home of Lucene, and speculate that this may have been on > the minds of the Lucene PMC when Lucy was green-lighted as a sub-project. > More importantly, though, the Lucy development community strongly believes > that The Apache Way is right for Lucy. > > First, this passage only asserts that we believe in The Apache Way rather than > demonstrating our understanding of it. We should "show, not tell". Second, > we should purge the PMC mind reading. Who knows what they were thinking! :) > Third, I don't want to leave in any mention of Lucy belonging at Apache > because > Lucene is there, too. That's Lucy sponging off the Lucene brand, and it's not > a benefit to Apache. We should just leave that unstated and stand on our > merits.
+1 to all your points. Nuke that second half. > The Community section does a fine job of identifying our challenges and > presenting a plan: > > Lucy currently has a small community, most members of which originated in > the > KinoSearch community. > > Lucy's chief challenge is growing its community, which it hopes to achieve > through efforts in two areas: reaching a 1.0 release, and actively > reaching > out to its target audience, users and developers in the dynamic language > communities who want a fast, scalable full-text search solution in their > native language. > > Still, I think we deserve a little more credit. We've taken a lot of flak > regarding the size of the Lucy community, but you know, if you consider how > the *KinoSearch* community has operated over the years, we haven't done so > bad. +1 for mentioning KS, since *that* is the code that is being donated. > The one thing I don't think we've done well (and this is my fault) is handle > releases and backwards compatibility. I agree with what Nate said on this. The perfect is the enemy of the good. > Lastly, it would be nice to cover our contingency plan of growing the > community and coming back with a bigger committer list at some later date. > However, I think that may arise naturally during the discussion, and it's > probably too big a topic to squeeze in. > +1 on Nate's comments here. I'm afk most of the day today (Friday), Marvin. I'm fine with the proposal as it written at the moment; it looks like you've already addressed most of the points above in your edits from last night. cheers on a hard week's work! pek -- Peter Karman . http://peknet.com/ . [email protected]
