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 > >
