You are not the only one -- I totally agree with your points. On Dec 29, 2010, at 11:28 AM, Heath Aldrich <[email protected]> wrote:
> Perhaps I'm the only one, but I really don't see the logic going on here. > > If you know there is a dedicated group of Lucene.net users, then how can you > claim that the project is stagnant? > There are active questions on the list, etc and there is help commonly > offered through the mailing lists. > From time to time as the need arises, the lucene.net is updated (yes I know > it may be years between updates)... why is that necessarily bad? > > Further, if Apache doesn't want to continue to host development in its > current state, why hang on to the name instead of releasing it where it can > back to SourceForge, or codeplex or somewhere else? Why the iron fist > regarding the name? Has the Apache foundation provided some investment to > the Lucene.net name that they need to protect? > I understand if they don't want to host a slowly developing product, but the > name issue has me totally confused. > > Heath > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Grant Ingersoll [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Wednesday, December 29, 2010 10:15 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: FYI: Vote thread started on [email protected] > > 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 > > >
