A single merged project works only when people are relatively on the same page, and when people feel it's mutually beneficial. Recent events make it clear that that is no longer the case.
Improvements to Solr have been recently blocked and reverted on the grounds that the new functionality was not immediately available to non-Solr users. This was obviously never part of the original idea (well actually - it was considered but rejected as too onerous). But the past doesn't matter as much as the present - about how people chose to act and interpret things today. https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SOLR-2272 http://markmail.org/message/unrvjfudcbgqatsy Some people warned us against merging at the start, and I guess it turns out they were right. I no longer feel it's in Solr's best interests to remain under the same PMC as Lucene-Java, and I know some other committers who have said they feel like Lucene got the short end of the stick. But rather than arguing about who's right (maybe both?) since enough of us feel it's no longer mutually beneficial, we should stop fighting and just go our separate ways. Please VOTE to create a new Apache Solr TLP. Here's my +1 -Yonik
