Jason Rutherglen wrote:
A relatively simple patch such as 1473 Serialization
represents this well.
LUCENE-1473 is an incomplete patch that proposes to commit the project
to new back-compatibility requirements. Compatibility requirements
should not be added lightly, but only deliberately, as they have a
long-term impact on the ability of the project to evolve. Prior to this
we've not heard from folks who require cross-version java serialization
compatibility. Without more folks asserting this as a need it is hard
to rationalize adding this.
As the
internals change frequently and unnannounced the process of developing
core patches is difficult and frustrating.
The process is entirely in public. You have as much announcement as
anyone. Patches are weighed on there merits as they are contributed.
It would benefit the community to focus on the future. Who exactly is
responsible for this? Which of the committers are building for the
future? Which are doing bug fixes? What is the process of developing
more advanced features in open source?
I've already explained the process several times.
We cannot easily make a long-term plan when we do not have the power to
assign folks. We can state long-term goals, like flexible indexing, but
in the end, it won't get done until someone volunteers to write the
code. So you're welcome to start a wish list on the wiki, and you're
welcome to then start contributing patches that implement items on your
wish list. If you propose something that folks think is extremely
useful, but requires an incompatible change, then it could perhaps be
done in a branch. But most of the existing community is interested in
pushing forward incrementally, trying hard to keep most things
back-compatible. If that's too frustrating for you, you can fork Lucene
and build a new community.
Right now it seems to be one
person, Michael McCandless developing all of the new core code.
Mike does a lot of development, but he also commits a lot of patches
written by others.
This is
great forward progress, however it's unclear how others can get involved
and not get stampeded by the constant changes that all happen via one
brilliant person.
You want Mike to do less? Others can and do get involved all the time.
Look at http://tinyurl.com/5nl78n. The majority of the things Mike
works on are instigated by others.
I have requested of people such as Michael Busch to collaborate on the
column stride fields and received no response.
Did you pay Michael? No one here is compelled to work with anyone else.
We work with others when we feel it is in our mutual self interest.
Doug
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