I'm willing to be a committer as well. I agree the entire porting process needs to be publicly documented and much of the dev effort (at least initially) will be in this area.
Alex -----Original Message----- From: Lombard, Scott [mailto:slomb...@kingindustries.com] Sent: Thursday, December 30, 2010 10:58 AM To: lucene-net-dev@lucene.apache.org; lucene-net-u...@lucene.apache.org Subject: RE: Vote thread started on gene...@lucene.apache.org Troy, My feeling is that a combination Java and .Net experience is needed. Some people will focus on Bug fixes in the .Net code while other focus on the translation of the code as their experience allows. One of the things I would like to see different with Lucene.Net is that the method conversion is kept in the SVN or Wiki. I feel the pre and post processing as well as possibly extensions to what ever tool that is used for the conversion are more important to this project then the actual executed code. Keeping a focus on making strong conversion tools as a community should help reduce the lag between a Java releases to a .Net releases. We then won't be waiting for one person to make the conversion. Scott -----Original Message----- From: Troy Howard [mailto:thowar...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, December 30, 2010 1:38 PM To: lucene-net-u...@lucene.apache.org Cc: lucene-net-dev@lucene.apache.org Subject: Re: Vote thread started on gene...@lucene.apache.org Scott, I will gladly help put this proposal together and would like to volunteer as a committer. I am communicating with others to find some additional candidates to be committers. Regarding Heath, a quote from his last message in this thread: "While I have developed extensively against Lucene.net, I do not possess the java skills needed to do a port of the code... So, while I wouldn't mind being a committer, I do not think I am qualified." Thanks, Troy On Thu, Dec 30, 2010 at 10:01 AM, Lombard, Scott <slomb...@kingindustries.com> wrote: > Grant, > > Thanks for your time explaining all the details. I will be willing work on a proposal to put Lucene.Net back in to incubation. I will need other people to step up and be committers as well. Heath has volunteered and as Grant has stated 4 committers are needed to for incubation. Who else is willing to be a committer? > > Grant I will definitely be taking you up on your offer to help on bring Lucene.Net into incubation. > > Scott > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Grant Ingersoll [mailto:gsing...@apache.org] > Sent: Thursday, December 30, 2010 12:32 PM > To: lucene-net-u...@lucene.apache.org > Subject: Re: Vote thread started on gene...@lucene.apache.org > > > On Dec 30, 2010, at 9:51 AM, Heath Aldrich wrote: > >> Hi Grant, >> >> Thanks for taking the time to respond. >> >> While I have developed extensively against Lucene.net, I do not >> possess the java skills needed to do a port of the code... So, while >> I wouldn't mind being a committer, I do not think I am qualified. (I >> guess if I was, I could just use Lucene proper and that would be >> that) >> >> As to other duties of a committer, I think the ASF is perceived as a black box of questions for most of us. >> >> For one, I don't think anyone outside the 4 committers even understand *why* it is a good thing to be on the ASF vs. CodePlex, Sourceforge, etc. Maybe if there was an understanding of the why, the requirements of the ASF would make more sense. I think a lot of us right now just perceive the ASF as the group that is wanting to kill Lucene.net. > > I don't think we have a desire to kill it, I just think we are faced with the unfortunate reality that the project is already dead and now us on the PMC have the unfortunate job of cleaning up the mess as best we can. Again, it is not even that we want to see it go away, we on the PMC just don't want to be responsible for it's upkeep. You give me the names of 4 people who are willing to be committers (i.e. people willing to volunteer their time) and I will do my best to get the project into the Incubator. However, I have to tell you, my willingness to help is diminishing with every trip we take around this same circle of discussion. > > Simply put, given the way the vote has gone so far, the Lucene PMC is no longer interested in sustaining this project. If the community wishes to see it live at the ASF then one of you had better step up and spend 20-30 minutes of your time writing up the draft proposal (most of it can be copied and pasted) and circulating it. In fact, given the amount of time some of you have no doubt spent writing on this and other related threads you could have put together the large majority of the proposal, circulated the draft and got other volunteers to help and already be moving forward in a positive direction. Truth be told, I would do it, but I am explicitly not going to because I think that if the community can't take that one step to move forward, then it truly doesn't deserve to. > >> >> I get your comments about the slower than slow development, but that is also somewhat of a sign that it works. While 2.9.2 may be behind, it seems very stable with very few issues. If we send the project to the attic, how will anyone be able to submit bugfixes ever? Frankly, I use 2.9.2 every day and have not found bugs in the areas that I use... but I'm sure they are in there somewhere. >> >> As for the name, I thought Lucene.net was the name of the project back in the SourceForge days... >> So my question is based on the premise that "if the lucene.net name was brought *to* ASF, why can the community not leave with it?" > > Again, IANAL, but just b/c it was improperly used beforehand does not > mean it is legally owned by some other entity. The Lucene name has > been at the ASF since 2001 and Lucene.NET is also now a part of the > ASF. (If your interested, go look at the discussions around iBatis > and the movement of that community to MyBatis) > > -Grant > > > This message (and any associated files) is intended only for the use > of the individual or entity to which it is addressed and may contain > information that is confidential, subject to copyright or constitutes > a trade secret. If you are not the intended recipient you are hereby > notified that any dissemination, copying or distribution of this > message, or files associated with this message, is strictly > prohibited. If you have received this message in error, please notify > us immediately by replying to the message and deleting it from your > computer. 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