Hi Erik and all, Sure thing and the email archive is a good record to have; for example, see this: http://www.mail-archive.com/lucene-dev@jakarta.apache.org/msg08663.html
Regards, -- George -----Original Message----- From: Erik Hatcher [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, April 17, 2006 10:49 AM To: general@incubator.apache.org Subject: Re: Lucene.Net George, This is good information to keep around moving forward, so thanks for providing that. It will be a factor in making sure the IP rights are free and clear in order for Lucene.Net to graduate from incubation. Erik On Apr 17, 2006, at 9:47 AM, George Aroush wrote: > Hi Erik, > > Wiki: Done. I now have an account and did a quick test to edit the > page. > Everything works. > > Lucene.Net History: Yes, the release of 1.3-rc3 as DotLucene was > nothing but a re-packaging of what Pasha removed from SourceForge.net. > Everything released after 1.3-rc3 was done by me from the ground up. > I did not take anything from Pasha's 1.3-rc3 release other then > examining it to fix some issues (primarily with the file > StandardTokenizerTokenManager.java). Once I had my first 1.4 release, > I never had to look back at 1.3's code base. > > I hope this helps, if not let me know. > > Regards, > > -- George > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Erik Hatcher [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Monday, April 17, 2006 7:06 AM > To: general@incubator.apache.org > Subject: Re: Lucene.Net > > Yes, I added that wiki piece for Lucene.Net. Please refine it as > desired. > > I'm not clear on your timeline below... when you re-released 1.3- rc3, > that was with Pasha's codebase, right? And what about 1.4-alpha - was > any of that code from Pasha, or was it a from-scratch creation by you? > > Erik > > > On Apr 16, 2006, at 10:25 PM, George Aroush wrote: > >> Hi Noel, >> >> I see that Lucene.Net has already been updated >> (http://wiki.apache.org/incubator/April2006) possibly done by Erik. >> >> In regards to the history of Lucene.Net/DotLucene, here is how it >> went: >> May 2003: 1.3-rc1 was released by Pasha Bizhan Dec 2003: 1.3-rc2 was >> released by Pasha Bizhan Sep 2004: 1.3-rc3 was released by Pasha >> Bizhan Sep 2004: 1.3-rc3 went close source and all earlier releases >> were removed from SourceForge.net Sep 2004: A new project called >> DotLucene was created on SourceForge.net Sep 2004: I re-released >> Lucene.Net 1.3-rc3 under the project name DotLucene on >> SourceForge.net Oct 2004: 1.4-alpha of Lucene.Net was released by me >> Nov 2004: 1.4-rc1 was released by me Dec 2004: 1.4.3-beta was >> released by me Jan 2005: 1.4.3-rc1 was released by me Feb 2005: >> 1.4.3-final was released by me May 2005: 1.9-beta was released by me >> Feb 2006: 1.9-rc1 was released by me >> >> As for Dan's documentation, I agree with you -- his terms are not in >> ASF terms so I will say "no" to him. >> >> Regards, >> >> -- George >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: Noel J. Bergman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >> Sent: Thursday, April 13, 2006 11:31 AM >> To: general@incubator.apache.org >> Subject: Lucene.Net >> >> George, >> >> Yes, a report needs to come from each project. You can see examples >> in the e-mail archives, or recent ones linked from >> http://wiki.apache.org/incubator/FrontPage. >> >> If you wouldn't mind, I'd like to hear a bit of the history of >> Lucene.Net. >> It seems that there was Lucene.Net, then it forked with one version >> becoming DotLucene and another becoming closed source. The former is >> what came to here, according to the status file, but you seem to >> indicate that not all of the participants have come? >> >> I assume that when you refer to "a promotional website for DotLucene >> set up by it's owner, Dan Letecky" you mean that Dan Letecky owns the >> site. :-) >> >> And I wouldn't be keen to accept his documentation under his terms. >> >> --- Noel >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: George Aroush [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >> Sent: Thursday, April 13, 2006 10:07 >> To: general@incubator.apache.org >> Subject: RE: Adding Jeff Roderburg to Lucene.Net as a committer >> >> >> Hi Nole, >> >> Is the report for inclusion in this month something you need from me? >> If so, can you point me to what I need to report on, i.e.: any forms >> that I have to fill. >> >> The IP is cleaned up some time ago (as far as I know if not please >> advice.) >> At SourceForge.net Lucene.Net (which is known as DotLucene) will no >> longer be supported. Do I need to do anything at SourceForge.net >> beside the announcement that DotLucene has moved to ASF? >> >> http://www.dotlucene.net/ is just a promotional website for DotLucene >> set up by it's owner, Dan Letecky. I sent an email to Dan asking if >> he wants to contribute his documentation of Lucene.Net to ASF (which >> is found >> here: >> http://www.dotlucene.net/documentation/) His response was: >> >> "I'm willing to contribute my documentation as long as there is a >> link back to http://www.dotlucene.net on each contributed page. E.g. >> <p>Contributed by >> <a href="http://www.dotlucene.net">dotlucene.net</a>." >> >> I believe giving credit where it's due, but this maybe too much to >> ask for. >> In any case, I don't know ASF policy on this regards and if this is >> acceptable. Please let me know, otherwise I will create and maintain >> the documentations myself. >> >> As for the earlier project going closed-source, that was the case >> with 1.2. >> However, since I have taken over stating with 1.3 and now that >> Lucene.Net is on ASF, I don't see it gong back to closed-source any >> more. >> >> Regards, >> >> -- George >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: Noel J. Bergman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >> Sent: Thursday, April 13, 2006 9:14 AM >> To: general@incubator.apache.org >> Subject: RE: Adding Jeff Roderburg to Lucene.Net as a committer >> >> Erik, >> >> I'll add a +1. And please be sure to submit the report for inclusion >> this month. >> >> For my information, I notice that the STATUS file says that this is >> from the DotLucene project on SourceForge. How are things going with >> IP clearance? >> And will this web site: http://www.dotlucene.net/ be coming over as >> the project's web site soon? >> >> I see that an earlier Lucence.Net project went closed-source >> (http://searchblackbox.com/lucene/index.html?ldn2). The only issue I >> have with them at the moment is their implication that they are THE >> Lucene for .net, rather than just A compatible implementation. >> >> --- Noel >> >> >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> >> >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]