Proposal for new project Lucene.Net (aka dotLucene) George Aroush -- [EMAIL PROTECTED]
---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---- (0) rationale Lucene.Net (aka dotLucene) is a source code port of Jakarta Lucene from Java to C#. The port is a one-to-one port of Lucene's high and low level APIs, public and internal APIs, and the underlying algorithms of Lucene as well as the index format. Every Java file released with Jakarta Lucene is ported to Lucene.Net C#. In addition, any index file generated with Lucene.Net is 100% cross compatible with Jakarta Lucene and via versa. Finally, Lucene.Net preserves the look-and-feel of C#'s naming convention for packages, classes, methods and documentation. Lucene.Net 1.4.3 is currently a six-month-old open source project, and is now hosted at SourceForge.net and is backed by its own non-profit organization. Since Lucene.Net is already based on Jakarta Lucene and thus uses the Apache 2.0 license is therefore an appropriate candidate to be moved to the Apache foundation. I anticipate that Lucene.Net will join the recently proposed search.apache.org top-level project, with Lucene and its various ports. (0.1) criteria Community: Lucene.Net has an established user community. However, the development community currently consists of primarily George Aroush, the submitter of this proposal. Core Developers: Currently, Lucene.Net has one active committer, George Aroush. Alignment: Lucene.Net currently users Visual Studio.Net 2003. In addition, it is being used by Mono. (0.2) warning signs Orphaned products: Lucene.Net is not an orphan. Inexperience with open source: Lucene.Net's committers are experienced with open source. Homogenous developers: Lucene.Net's committers do not all share an employer or nation. All decisions are made openly on public mailing lists. Reliance on salaried developers: Lucene.Net has no salaried developers. No ties to other Apache products: Lucene.Net has strong ties to Lucene. A fascination with the Apache brand: Lucene.Net has a strong brand already. It has followers and projects based on it such as Lookout, .Text, Beagle and Ascirum. (1) scope of the subprojects All code is currently licensed under the same license as Jakarta Lucene which is Apache 2.0 license. I have not yet signed the Contributor License Agreements but I look forward to it. (3) identify the ASF resources to be created (3.1) mailing list(s) Same as Jakarta Lucene (3.2) Subversion or CVS repositories TBD (3.3) Jira TBD (4) identify the initial set of committers Same as Jakarta Lucene. (5) identify apache sponsoring individual Erik Hatcher, Doug Cutting, and Otis Gospodnetic. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
