For those of you who have been following the threads about the status of Lucene.NET, as the Lucene PMC Chair, I have started the formal process for a PMC vote for shutting down this project due to stagnation on the development side, effective Jan. 31, 2011. The thread is taking place on the [email protected] mailing list, which is where the PMC does most of it's business.
I view this as a pretty unfortunate situation as I know there are a group of dedicated users in this community, but it is apparent that development has completely stagnated and also that the Lucene PMC as it is currently constituted is not interested in the .NET version of Lucene. Should the vote pass, my sincere hope is there is enough galvanization within the community here to put together a list of committers and a proposal and go back to the Apache Incubator to become a standalone project governed by people who are interested in Lucene.NET moving forward. If that works, we can simply migrate people on this list to the incubator lists. If it doesn't work, I suspect we will shut down the dev mailing list and put JIRA into a read-only mode as well as put SVN into a read-only mode. I am not sure what should be done w/ the user list, but it will likely be shut down too. -Grant Ingersoll
