Hi George, thanks for sticking with it so far :) I've been looking through the code myself, and I have to be honest, I don't have the programming skills to be able to give assistance where you've commented in the code.
Would it not be useful to utilise JIRA? For instance, you comment on whether your workaround for nullable Single values is suitable. If it were in JIRA, I imagine it may be easier for the community to comment. I see you can define versions within JIRA, and if for each version you created a task identifying all of the areas you comment in code, perhaps those with more skills will be able to more clearly vote, comment or even provide patches. There are also some random support requests lurking in JIRA that should be removed. Perhaps someone in the community could moderate JIRA if you don't have time. I haven't the experience in bug tracking, but if you were short on help, I'd be happy to learn. Regards, Doug (not Cutting!) On Mon, 2007-07-02 at 09:47 -0400, George Aroush wrote: > Hi Folks, > > It has been some time since I last posted to the Lucene.Net mailing list. > > I'm glad to see there is good activities and discussion going on from the > user base community, and judging from those post, I see some new "faces". > What's even better, I see folks are jumping in and answering questions as > well as helping out. > > This is all well and great, but what Lucene.Net lacks is a development > community. As some of you know already, I'm the only active committer to > Lucene.Net. This is bad in many ways. It slows down releases considerably, > and it means Lucene.Net will never graduate from incubation to say the > least. > > For example, if you are following up on the Java Lucene mailing list, you > will noticed that about 2 weeks ago, Lucene 2.2 was released. Here on the > Lucene.Net, we still haven't done any progress on Lucene.Net 2.1 since my > initial release going back to May 1st, 2007! (see: > http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/incubator-lucene-net-dev/200705.mbo > x/[EMAIL PROTECTED]) > > (I did get one important fix from DIGY, thanks DIGY -- but there is a lot > more to be done.) > > So, if you are a developer (you have to be if you are a user) and want to > see Lucene.Net in par with Java Lucene, and really like Lucene.Net such that > you don't want to see it dying, consider spending few hours a week and > helping with the port. If you need any help from me to do so, or you are > not sure how to get started, please let me know. > > Regards, > > -- George >
