I'll reach out to Ferronrsmith vis the nuget.org contact system. I'll keep you 
guys posted

-----Original Message-----
From: Stefan Bodewig [mailto:[email protected]] 
Sent: Friday, April 28, 2017 8:24 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Unauthorized 4.9.0 package (was Re: Regarding Lucene.net 4.9 vs 4.8 
beta)

On 2017-04-28, Shad Storhaug wrote:

> Apparently, someone released an unofficial Lucene.Net clone on NuGet (and has 
> incremented it to 4.9.0), but is masquerading it as an official version 
> (calling it "Apache Lucene.Net" and putting  "The Apache Software Foundation" 
> (https://www.myget.org/gallery/lucene-net-ci). This doesn't sound like 
> something that Apache would approve of, so I am bringing it to your 
> attention. It is certainly going to cause confusion among users.

Ouch.

For reference: https://www.nuget.org/packages/Lucene.Net.Core/

The PMC needs to reach out to whoever did so and tell them it is not acceptable 
and they need to label their packages properly. Most likely this has happenen 
with the best intententions and can be rectified. Does anybody know 
"ferronrsmith"?

Stefan

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