Hi Doug,
I've noticed the same odd thing, me and a couple of guys were heaving a discussion in de Open Discussion of Lucene.NET to re-establish a decent up to date .NET port of Lucene when suddenly all plugs were pulled out (no files released any more, no open discussion, etc.)
Last night I've send a mail to all people involved (4 in total, George -http://www.aroush.net-, Mohammad -http://mohammad.abdulfatah.net/-, Mansur and me). The idea is to get a Lucene port in sync with the Java version and get a decent community support behind (not restricting the people that can co-develop to a mere 1 or 2 in-crowd). An open source product is only as good as its community I guess.
I find it a strange move from de Lucene.NET guys (http://www.lucenedotnet.com), ofcourse they have put in a lot of effort to port the thing and it's quite possible to earn money with it. But were did they get the code from in the first place ?!?! (Under the Apache License).
The main target for the .NET porters is now to get a SourceForge workspace to continue the .NET port of Lucene. Mohammed is contacting the developers of NLucene and see if we can work something out together to use their space and name for the real open source .NET brother (or sister:) of the Java Lucene version.
We hope we can tell you more shortly. Keep up the great work you all have done with Lucene so far!
Yussef
From: Doug Cutting <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: "Lucene Developers List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Lucene Developers List <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: lucene.net no more? Date: Tue, 14 Sep 2004 21:21:29 -0700
Does anyone know more about this?
http://mohammad.abdulfatah.net/mohammad/archives/2004/09/the_mysterious.php
Doug
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