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.
Perhaps it is time to start bringing the various Lucene ports under the Apache umbrella. If we made Lucene a top-level Apache project rather than a Jakarta sub-project, at lucene.apache.org rather than jakarta.apache.org/lucene, then we could have sub-projects for each implementation (Java, C++, C#, Perl, etc.). The primary obstacle to this is a lack of volunteers who are willing to do the legwork of re-assembling the website, cvs, mailing lists, etc. I am currently overbooked and cannot take this on.
This would prevent this sort of thing in the future: an Apache sub-project cannot be unilaterally closed.
Doug
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