On Dec 23, 2010, at 11:29 AM, Simone Chiaretta wrote:

> There are already a few other forks going on...

That's fine, too.  I should have said, anyone interested in this project 
staying alive at the ASF, should go work on an Incubator proposal.

> 
> On Thu, Dec 23, 2010 at 5:25 PM, Grant Ingersoll <[email protected]>wrote:
> 
>> 
>> On Dec 23, 2010, at 11:15 AM, Wyatt Barnett wrote:
>> 
>>> In case anyone wants to read the discussion, it can be found at
>>> http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/lucene/general/113252.
>>> 
>>> As for the subject matter, frankly I think help has been rejected or
>>> at least not accepted -- see issues such as
>>> https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LUCENENET-379 for one example.
>> 
>> Just to be clear on my role here: I am not interested in doing work on
>> Lucene.NET and will not be doing commits to the project.  I just have the
>> role, as PMC chair, of making sure the projects we are responsible for are
>> active and healthy.  The committers on the project are responsible for
>> moving the project forward and doing the real work.  To the point of my
>> original email, the fact that the PMC and the committers are not (mostly)
>> the same people is problematic for this project and reason #1 of why it
>> belongs either as it's own standalone project at the ASF or somewhere else.
>> 
>> I would suggest, at this point, that anyone who is interested in this
>> project remaining alive to go to
>> http://incubator.apache.org/guides/proposal.html and then start on an
>> Incubator Proposal and let others here know about it.
>> 
>> 
>>> 
>>> Insofar as an official 2.9.2 release -- what is involved? From what I
>>> can tell, 2.9.2 has been a de-facto release for the better part of a
>>> year at least. Do we just need to build some binaries and say it is
>>> so?
>>> 
>> 
>> See http://apache.org/dev/#releases.  Again, however, you need committers
>> who are willing to do the work.  As stated above, you are probably better
>> off spending your time putting together an Incubator proposal.
>> 
>> -Grant
>> 
>>> 
>>> On Thu, Dec 23, 2010 at 10:36 AM, Grant Ingersoll <[email protected]>
>> wrote:
>>>> In my opinion, no, it has not.  Not one of the committers responded to
>> my repeated appeals for the Board Report and, AFAICT, the website, etc. have
>> not been updated.  There is currently a PMC level discussion taking place at
>> [email protected] (the subject is "Next Steps on Lucene.NET") on
>> what the next steps should be.
>>>> 
>>>> On Dec 22, 2010, at 4:54 AM, Simone Chiaretta wrote:
>>>> 
>>>>> Hi all,
>>>>> just wanted to know if the Lucene.net team managed to do the things the
>>>>> "board" was asking in order to keep it alive.
>>>>> I cannot see anything online (new website, latest "official" release,
>> no new
>>>>> commits).
>>>>> 
>>>>> Simone
>>>>> 
>>>>> --
>>>>> Simone Chiaretta
>>>>> Microsoft MVP ASP.NET - ASPInsider
>>>>> Blog: http://codeclimber.net.nz
>>>>> RSS: http://feeds2.feedburner.com/codeclimber
>>>>> twitter: @simonech
>>>>> 
>>>>> Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic
>>>>> "Life is short, play hard"
>>>> 
>>>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
> 
> 
> -- 
> Simone Chiaretta
> Microsoft MVP ASP.NET - ASPInsider
> Blog: http://codeclimber.net.nz
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> twitter: @simonech
> 
> Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic
> "Life is short, play hard"

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