This message is to kick-start this process in a more formal manner.
Creating a new top-level project to house Lucene, and the effort to incubate Nutch can occur in parallel, I believe. Nutch will follow the path outlined here:
http://incubator.apache.org/howtoparticipate.html
The creation of the top-level project has been somewhat outlined here:
http://wiki.apache.org/jakarta/JakartaPMCTopLevelProjectApplication
Most of the effort is administrative, such as selecting a Chair, PMC members, and putting together a plan of action. Along with this move, we should also consider switching to Subversion and migrating from Bugzilla to JIRA.
Are there any folks opposed to these plans?
I personally am happy to champion this effort and I will do what I can within the time constraints of the rest of my life. What we need are other volunteers willing to assist with these efforts. First we need to write the proposals, choose the initial PMC members and Chair (who I assume should be his majesty Doug, if he's willing to be in that role), and deal with the flurry of e-mails on the Jakarta PMC e-mail list.
More technical effort will be needed to manage the publishing of the website - it would be nice to overhaul the Lucene site - manage the code repositories, and automate the bulk of the release process so that we can simply click and release.
What tasks have I overlooked?
Discussion? Suggestions?
Erik
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