Marvin Humphrey wrote:
The conversations that we had in JIRA and on java-dev were
beneficial to both
Lucene and Lucy; should I have posted to the Lucy dev list instead
simply to
demonstrate activity, which would have been less useful to Mike, to
me, to
Lucy, and to Lucene? To my mind, the Lucene community is also part
of the
Lucy community.
This is a good point... it is unfortunate that the large healthy
community of java-user/dev indeed does tend to draw discussions away
from its "offshots". Much like most acorns dropping from a large
healthy oak tree will fail to grow because they get no sun.
EG you recently posted about Matcher, to lucy-dev. You then posted to
java-dev, pointing to that post (which was a great idea). I pondered
whether to respond via java-dev or lucy-dev. I knew java-dev would
get more discussion, but I also really, really want Lucy to grow &
succeed, so I responded on lucy-dev. But then the discussion stopped.
I do think these discussions (and it's not just LUCENE-1483, there
were a number of other issues & just plain discussions on java-dev) do
indeed "count" as good Lucy activity.
Mike
