(Sending in collaboration with and on behalf of Shad Storhaug, Lucene.Net Chair)
## Description: The mission of Lucene.Net is the creation and maintenance of software related to Search engine library targeted at .NET runtime users. ## Project Status: Current project status: Ongoing with high activity Issues for the board: None ## Membership Data: Apache Lucene.Net was founded 2012-08-14 (12 years ago) There are currently 16 committers and 14 PMC members in this project. The Committer-to-PMC ratio is 8:7. Community changes, past quarter: - No new PMC members. Last addition was Ron Clabo on 2022-03-02. - No new committers. Last addition was Ron Clabo on 2021-06-02. ## Project Activity: Apache Lucene.Net delivered the latest 4.8.0-beta00017 release on 2024-10-29, the first release in over two years. Activity has picked up notably in the past quarter. We are going to need one more beta release (4.8.0-beta00018) to finish introducing necessary breaking changes, before focusing on finishing up a 4.8.0 final release. 4.8.0-beta00018 is 46% complete by issue count at the time of this writing, not including necessary changes to our dependencies J2N and ICU4N, some of which are significant. Our goal is to deliver this beta in the first quarter of 2025. The longer-term goal, post-4.8, is to catch up to a more recent version of Lucene, which should be much easier with our current foundation. Our project has also been working on supporting the latest .NET versions, improving performance through benchmarks, improving the documentation and unit tests, automating various processes including API comparison, and continuing to investigate and resolve issues submitted by the community. ## Community Health: Activity has increased significantly on the project since the last board report. Commits have increased to about 10.5 commits per week at time of writing since the last board report, up from about 3.5 per week for the same time period before that. Community interaction via GitHub issues continues to be an effective means of communication. Discussions on Slack remain focused on what is remaining to finish the 4.8 release and we have been putting all efforts towards this goal. - bui...@lucenenet.apache.org had a 394% increase in traffic in the past quarter (94 emails compared to 19) - dev@lucenenet.apache.org had a 500% increase in traffic in the past quarter (522 emails compared to 87) - 79 commits since last board update (up from 8 in quarter prior to last board report) - 7 code contributors since last board update (same) - Last release: 2024-10-29 (4.8.0-beta00017) - over 90k downloads on nuget.org already Paul Irwin
