-1 (non-binding since I am only a contributor, not a committer) I have looked at a bunch of the discussions on JIRA and they frankly look pretty silly. How can anyone seriously say that refactoring to promote re-use is bad? How can somebody veto a code contribution that adds important and useful capabilities?
Seriously, this looks like kindergarten all over again (these are *my* marbles, I am going home). It doesn't look like open source at all. Loosen up. On Tue, Apr 26, 2011 at 1:05 PM, Steven A Rowe <sar...@syr.edu> wrote: > -1 > > I think real compromise is in order, rather than serial confrontation > ending in divorce. > > Steve > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: ysee...@gmail.com [mailto:ysee...@gmail.com] On Behalf Of Yonik > > Seeley > > Sent: Tuesday, April 26, 2011 2:50 PM > > To: general@lucene.apache.org > > Subject: [VOTE] Create Solr TLP > > > > 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 >