Erik Hatcher ha scritto:
Antonello,
Welcome!
On Jun 3, 2005, at 4:53 AM, Antonello Provenzano wrote:
I'm quite finishing the porting (a *proper* one) of the Apache
Jakarta project Lucene.
What version of Lucene did you port? How can you ever be "finished"
since Lucene is continually evolving?
I'm porting the version 1.4.3. I'm a developer as you are: I know
perfectly a software is always in-motion and cannot finish until it's
discontinued!
I want to release the port project under APL
Do you mean the ASL (Apache Software License)?
Right.
and would like it to be hosted and mantained: I have no time for the
development of the code.
Well now that's a problem for bringing your code into Apache. ASF is
about community over code. We are not a dumping ground for
unmaintained code without a surrounding community. Are there other
developers on your codebase? Have you communicated with George
Aroush about combining efforts and producing a single top-quality C#
port? George has begun, though currently stalled, the process of
bringing his C# port to the Apache Incubator. Only if you can
nurture the code through this process and build a community around
the project will it be possible to bring it into Apache.
Ok... I pourposed the port to the #Dashboard community, being a Mono
developer: they suggested me to pourpose it to the Lucene community too,
saying you would be interested in hosting it.
Anyway, the #Dashboard developers would be interested in the development.
The implementation I downloaded and compared against is the dotLucene
(used by #dashboard and beagle too): I was unable to find the source
code for the George Aroush's Lucene.NET. Then, I contacted the author of
the dotLucene project, for replacing his code with mine. I'm still
waiting for an answer...
Anyway, I'm interested in contacting George, for pourposing him the
code: I really have no time for the development of this project too, and
would be a good solution to give him for the development.
I decided porting the project for commercial pourposes (needed to
index millions of data entries), being the previous port of Lucene
(dotLucene) not so good-looking and a little slow (for my needings).
Again, I'm curious about the communication you had with the
developers of the other C# codebase(s). Did you make improvements
known to them?
Erik
