On Feb 4, 2010, at 7:15 PM, Mohammed Aziz Parande wrote: > Hi, > > > > I am a graduate student in the Department of Information Systems at the > University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC). I am doing research in the > area of software engineering. I would very much appreciate if you could > answer the following questions of mine: > > > > 1. I was wondering if Lucene has gone under any major restructuring/redesign > initiative in its history. Restructuring/redesign initiative can be defined > as a concerted effort during a time period in which major changes were > applied to the code base to improve software architecture/design while > little or no functional enhancement was made.
Yes it has gone under a restructuring, but it also had other improvements added. > > > > 2. If the project has gone under such an initiative, then would it be > possible for you to give the dates or revision/release numbers that are > "right before" and "right after" this structuring effort? I would like to > checkout the source code from the repository to compare structural > measurements that belong to "before" and "after" snapshots. Note that the > dates and revision/release numbers should be right before and right after > the initiative because I would like to be able to isolate and observe the > effects of this effort. > See the 2.3.X releases, most notably the reworking of indexing. HTH, Grant
