On Mon, May 4, 2020 at 2:13 PM Dawid Weiss <dawid.we...@gmail.com> wrote:
> This sounds like a decision has already been made. > > No. I plan to send a VOTE thread nonetheless. A vote thread is just > that -- a vote. If majority decides both projects > should stay together it's still a decision. A discussion without any > resolution is going to dissolve over time into no resolution at all. > No decision has been made. The point of a DISCUSS thread, prior to a VOTE thread, is for all interested parties to voice their diverse reactions to this proposal, and help the binding voters (Lucene/Solr committers) make up their minds about how to vote on the VOTE thread. We have a delightfully diverse community here who will all contribute in choosing our path forward. > Separately from that I think Solr has become older, larger and is an > industry standard search component. It is time for it to mature and > just be a top-level Apache project even from public-relations point of > view. > +1 I feel Solr as its own Apache top-level project is actually long overdue: Solr has clearly been a leading standard open-search distributed search engine for quite some time already, with its own strong user and developer identities and culture. We long ago achieved the goals (paying down open-source tech debt) of merging the two projects a decade ago. Mike McCandless http://blog.mikemccandless.com
