On Mar 23, 2010, at 3:01 PM, Otis Gospodnetic wrote: > I wish we could somehow lose that "Lucene-Java". The -Java part seems so > forced, like we couldn't come up with anything better. >
Yeah, I agree. I like your suggestion of Core. > Otis > > > ----- Original Message ---- >> From: Chris Hostetter <[email protected]> >> To: "[email protected]" <[email protected]> >> Sent: Tue, March 23, 2010 2:43:36 PM >> Subject: RE: Branding Solr+Lucene >> >> > (note: conciously, and deliberately confined my reply to only >> general@) > > : - Lucene will remain the name of the Apache TLP hosting both >> the > : Lucene-Java product and the Solr product. > : > : - Solr, while >> ceasing to refer to a stand-alone development sub-project, > : will continue >> to be a product, with no change in its user-facing > : *product* >> communications; Solr's downloadable artifacts, the wiki, the > : website, and >> the solr-user mailing list will remain as-is. (The website > : javadocs >> will need re-jiggering, though, I'd guess.) > > Exactly! ... the key thing to >> remember is that since Lucene becamse a TLP > that graduated from Jakarta, >> there has always only ever been one "Project" > and that project is "Apache >> Lucene". The Project has released numerous > different "Proudcts" over >> the years and (for various historical reasons) > we have in the past >> constructed largely artificial partitions of our > development efforts arround >> those Products. > > All we have done at this point is remove some of those >> partitions between > the development of the "Lucene-Java" product and the >> "Solr" product ... > that doesn't mean that the Project, or either of those >> two Products need > new names/branding. > > (There has always been some >> minor confusion about the "Lucene-Java" > Product also being refered to as >> simply "Lucene" but nothing about the > recent changes really has any impact >> on that) > > > > -Hoss -------------------------- Grant Ingersoll http://www.lucidimagination.com/ Search the Lucene ecosystem using Solr/Lucene: http://www.lucidimagination.com/search
