Hello, everyone!

I'm interested in helping to keep Lucene.net alive and well; Most of
my time available for open source development is required for another
project, so can't make commitments on contributing code (like helping
with porting, etc.).

I could fix bugs now and then, and help with testing and optimizing
performance of Lucene.Net on Mono.

Also I can help with the website. It really needs some love and I
could help to provide a proper site structure, make a beautiful
design, improve the logo, better integrate API documentation into the
website, etc.

Johannes.

On Sat, Oct 30, 2010 at 12:34 PM, Grant Ingersoll <gsing...@apache.org> wrote:
> Thanks, Aaron.
>
> By the way, to all others reading this: please do not reply to me privately.  
> It does nothing to help the community and in fact just reinforces in my mind 
> that the project is not sustainable at the ASF because people aren't willing 
> to publicly support it.
>
> -Grant
>
> On Oct 29, 2010, at 8:07 PM, Aaron Powell wrote:
>
>> I'm sure I'm not the only one who would be really disappointed to loose
>> Lucene.Net from the .Net communities toolbox.
>>
>> I'd be happy to offer up my services to keep the project alive. I'll admit I
>> don't know much about the way projects are run under the Apache umbrella,
>> but I'm keen to ensure that Lucene.Net doesn't die :).
>> Aaron Powell
>> Umbraco Ninja
>>
>> http://www.aaron-powell.com | http://twitter.com/slace | Skype:
>> aaron.l.powell | MSN: aaz...@hotmail.com
>>
>>
>> On Sat, Oct 30, 2010 at 7:48 AM, Grant Ingersoll <gsing...@apache.org>wrote:
>>
>>> FYI: This message was sent to the lucene-net-...@lucene.a.o list on Oct.
>>> 25 and elicited zero replies.  I am sending it here in the hopes that some
>>> of you will step forward and either bring this project back to life via
>>> going back to the Incubator or we put it in the Apache Attic and someone can
>>> take and maintain it somewhere else under a different name per the terms of
>>> the Apache License.
>>>
>>> ---
>>> Hi .Netters,
>>>
>>> The Lucene PMC would like to ask everyone involved with .NET if they might
>>> chime in on the status of this project.  There hasn't been a commit since
>>> July 2010 (and that one was trivial and there were only 2 in June) and there
>>> seems to be very little activity on the dev mailing list.  There also has
>>> not been a release in a long time.  This was brought up at the last Lucene
>>> Board Report and it doesn't appear that there has been any action since.   A
>>> community should be able to withstand the loss of a single committer, but
>>> here it appears that there are no longer any committers willing to work on
>>> the project.
>>>
>>> In order to remedy the situation, we would like the following things to be
>>> done:
>>> 1.  The community needs to show some (sustained) life.  Not just in code,
>>> but in discussion of the project's future, etc.  We would expect the
>>> committers to take a leadership role here.
>>> 2. The community needs to do a real release that is voted on by the PMC.
>>> 3. The webpage needs to be updated to reflect that those previous "source"
>>> releases are not real releases and should be taken down.  Likewise, the news
>>> section should not tout these non-releases as releases.  The website should
>>> also meet the PMC Branding guidelines recently sent out.
>>> 4. Identify some new blood for contributors/committers.  Or the current
>>> committers need to step up more and take a lead role in the community.
>>>
>>> We would like to see action on all of these things by the end of this year.
>>> If they can't be met, there will be one of the following actions:
>>> 1. Go back into Incubation
>>> 2. Go into the Apache Attic.  If someone wants to take the code base and
>>> fork it out as a project somewhere else under a new name that does not use
>>> the Lucene trademark name (since that is owned by the ASF) than that is
>>> perfectly acceptable under the Apache license.
>>>
>>> If the conditions can be met, we think that the project should spin itself
>>> out as its own Top Level ASF project with its own PMC so that its future
>>> direction can be set by the stakeholders of the project and not by the
>>> larger Lucene project as a whole.
>>>
>>> Sincerely,
>>> Grant Ingersoll
>>> On behalf of the Lucene PMC
>
> --------------------------
> Grant Ingersoll
> http://www.lucidimagination.com
>
>

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