Hi Itamar, IMO, the main problem here is not about licensing. Suppose that you developed two excellent contribs, Regex & FacetedSearch (from previous eMails I know that you didn't know they already existed in Lucene.Net), and put them in your repository.
Then, how would Lucene.Net users determine which one to use? which is better? which will be supported longer? I don't want to say Apache repo. is better, just to emphasize the possible confusion. Anyway, it is good to see people working on Lucene.Net. DIGY -----Original Message----- From: Itamar Syn-Hershko [mailto:ita...@code972.com] Sent: Thursday, June 16, 2011 7:48 PM To: lucene-net-user@lucene.apache.org Subject: Re: [Lucene.Net] Announcing Lucene.Net.Contrib I think this is the best way to get exposure and be able to evolve, and I feel much more comfortable with git than SVN and the JIRA bureaucracy. As I said in my previous e-mail you're more than welcome to grab my repo into the main contrib project. At the moment everything is ASL, and the intention is to keep it that way (at least, only permissive licenses; the hyphenation library I'll bring in is MIT). Itamar. On 16/06/2011 19:16, Prescott Nasser wrote: > Digy has been extremely quick to update the 2 > 9.4g branch with additions posted to jira as well as bug fixes. > > The main branch is slower to move at the moment because we are letting it > bake before we release it as a binary. > > I would urge you to keep you contributions here by creating a jira issue and > attaching your patch. If you're really going to be doing a lot consider > trying to join us as a committer > > At the end of the day while I think it would be great that we are all in one > place, I welcome your enthusiasm for the project. > > If you decide to stay at git are you keeping extensions under the asf > license? And could we include them in our contrib from time to time? > > -Prescott > > Sent from my Windows Phone > > -----Original Message----- > From: Itamar Syn-Hershko > Sent: Thursday, June 16, 2011 8:01 AM > To: lucene-net-user@lucene.apache.org > Subject: Re: [Lucene.Net] Announcing Lucene.Net.Contrib > > > >> To cite my blog post: >> >> >> "This is not trying to compete with Lucene.Net's contrib section, it is >> just intended in being much more flexible, fast growing community of >> extensions, most probably will be small in size." >> >> >> The .NET community is not around Apache as much as the Java community >> is. It is much easier to get to it via github and nuget, and it is >> impossible to do that in slow release cycles. Also, git is so much >> easier for projects of this sort, where community contributions is the >> center of things (unlike Lucene.Net, in which the product is). Forks and >> branches in SVN are a real pain... >> >> >> My goal is to publish extensions I find useful and hopefully to get or >> incorporate others' too. If for example I find a bug in >> FastVectorHighlighter and can't wait on a Lucene.Net release, I'd copy >> it from the original Contrib and fix it on my branch. I don't think all >> changes justify that, hence my latest patch was submitted to JIRA. >> >> >> I'm not trying to split resources, on the contrary. As far as I'm >> concerned, you can incorporate my repo in contribs before every release. >> >> >> Itamar. >> >> >> On 16/06/2011 17:47, digy digy wrote: >> >>> In fact, there is a repo in contrib for this purpose. "core". (I know a >>> better name is needed) >>> https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/incubator/lucene.net/branches/Lucene.Net_2_9_4g/src/contrib >>> >>> IMO, all community contributions should be at one place (Apache) to avoid >>> confusions, since there are already a lot of Lucene.Net related >>> codes/repositories around( ActiveLuceneNet, LuceneWrap, LinqToLucene, Azure >>> Library for Lucene.Net, HebMorph :) etc. ). For ex., looking at your >>> "Announcing: Lucene.Net.Contrib" page, I see that you are not aware of the >>> "simplistic implementations" of faceted search in contrib. >>> >>> >>> DIGY >>> >>> >>> On Thu, Jun 16, 2011 at 4:38 PM, Itamar >>> Syn-Hershko<ita...@code972.com>wrote: >>> >>>> Hi all, >>>> >>>> I created a new github repository where I'm dumping all extensions I write >>>> or port from Java myself. The intention is having a community based >>>> repository for all things Lucene.Net. I threw some stuff in already, and >>>> will have some more soon. More details here: >>>> http://www.code972.com/blog/2011/06/announcing-lucene-net-contrib/ >>>> >>>> Code is at https://github.com/synhershko/Lucene.Net.Contrib >>>> >>>> Itamar. >>>> >
