On Mar 13, 2011, at 8:47 AM, Grant Ingersoll wrote:
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> On Mar 13, 2011, at 10:23 AM, Simon Willnauer wrote:
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>> Hey folks,
>>
>> I have recently tried to push some refactorings towards moving stuff
>> from Solr to modules land to enable users of Lucene to benefit from
>> the developments that have been made in Solr land during the past with
>> very little success. Actually, it was a really disappointing
>> experience whenever I tried to kick off issues towards this
>> direction. On LUCENE-2308 David asked a good question why FieldType is
>> not ported to Lucene rather than a new development.
>> I replied with:
>>
>> {quote}
>> Moving stuff from Solr to Lucene involves lots of politics. It is way
>> easier to let Solr adopt eventually than fight your way through the
>> politics (this is my opinion though.)
>> {quote}
>
>> Moving features to modules should be first priority and please correct
>> me if I am wrong this was one of the major reason why we merged the
>> code base.
>
> I don't think it is a first priority, but it is a benefit. I also don't
> think it was the majority reason for the merge. I think the majority reason
> was that most of the Solr committers were also Lucene committers and there
> was a fair amount of duplicated work and a desire to be on the same version.
> Modularization was/is also a benefit.
Actually the whole merge discussion started because Mike wanted to modularize
the analysis code and create modules.
It's right there:
http://s.apache.org/th
http://s.apache.org/A2R
Whether since then it's not been first priority or not is of course debatable,
but it's at least what kicked off the discussion and eventual action.
Cheers,
Chris
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