Thanks Chuck! Really excited about this for the Lucy community...
Cheers, Chris On Jun 2, 2011, at 8:06 PM, Chuck Norris wrote: > Congratulations, everyone on reaching this outstanding milestone! I hope and > believe Lucy has a long, illustrious future ahead of it. > > As good as Lucene is, having a search technology built on a more universally > compatible code base will make it much easier to be widely adopted. I can > see Lucy someday built into most operating systems, powering search in apps > like email clients and IDEs, and being the core of system-wide search > technology like whatis or Apple's Spotlight. > > Thanks for all your hard work, and I look forward to seeing the great things > that are to come. > > Chuck Norris > Chief Technology Officer > Eventful, Inc. > [email protected] > > > On Jun 2, 2011, at 9:48 AM, Mattmann, Chris A (388J) wrote: > >> We are pleased to annouce the inaugural release of Apache Lucy™, version >> 0.1.0! >> >> Apache Lucy is full-text search engine library written in C and targeted >> at dynamic languages. The inaugural release provides Perl bindings. >> >> Lucy is a "loose C" port of Apache Lucene™, a search engine library for >> Java -- it is similar in purpose to Lucene, but designed to take advantage >> of C's unique capabilities. >> >> For more information, please visit the Apache Lucy website: >> >> http://incubator.apache.org/lucy/ >> >> Disclaimer: >> >> Apache Lucy is an effort undergoing incubation at The Apache Software >> Foundation (ASF), sponsored by the Apache Incubator. Incubation is >> required of all newly accepted projects until a further review >> indicates that the infrastructure, communications, and decision making >> process have stabilized in a manner consistent with other successful >> ASF projects. While incubation status is not necessarily a reflection >> of the completeness or stability of the code, it does indicate that >> the project has yet to be fully endorsed by the ASF. >> >> Regards, >> >> The Apache Lucy development team: >> >> Chris Hostetter >> Marvin Humphrey >> Peter Karman >> Nathan Kurz >> Chris Mattmann >> Mike McCandless >> Upayavira >> David E. Wheeler >> Simon Willnauer >> >> ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ >> Chris Mattmann, Ph.D. >> Senior Computer Scientist >> NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory Pasadena, CA 91109 USA >> Office: 171-266B, Mailstop: 171-246 >> Email: [email protected] >> ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ >> Adjunct Assistant Professor, Computer Science Department >> University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089 USA >> ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ >> >> > > > ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Chris Mattmann, Ph.D. Senior Computer Scientist NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory Pasadena, CA 91109 USA Office: 171-266B, Mailstop: 171-246 Email: [email protected] WWW: http://sunset.usc.edu/~mattmann/ ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Adjunct Assistant Professor, Computer Science Department University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089 USA ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
