> As a user of Lucene I missed some features. Part of the OSS culture is > for me to tell others about this and maybe to try to find solutions. > Mark's code seems to be one, so I proposed to consider adding it into > some spot with better exposure for testing. And I don't seem to be the > only person with the need for these features. I think Lucene would be > better if these features were easily available. If the Lucene team > doesn't think so -- fair enough, it is their project. But asking me to > stop requesting features in a (hopefully) sensible way is pretty much > against the spirit of OSS and hacker culture as far as I understand it. > > Does that answer your questions? >
Yep. I guess we have different philosophies but are more or less heading toward the same goal :) I've been on other projects where the response to questions has been "look at the source". So maybe I have gotten into a bad habit of hacking first and asking questions second. thanks for the excellent reply, btw. brian > Peter > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
