[I don't appear to be on the incubator PMC mailing list, so I don't know
what's been said about this there besides the message Erik forwarded
(below).]
The Lucy project will be all-new code. I explained the importance of
this to David and Marvin before we proposed the project. We are not
attempting to bypass the incubator. I am familiar with the incubator
and understand and support its purpose.
David and Marvin are new committers, added to start this project.
Marvin and David were both active members of the Apache Lucene community
before this, as well as implementors of respected non-Apache ports of
Lucene to Perl and Ruby.
Doug
Erik Hatcher wrote:
FYI, the Lucy project is being discussed in the Incubator PMC.
Doug, Dave, and/or Marvin should probably jump in on this conversation.
Erik
Begin forwarded message:
From: Justin Erenkrantz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: June 22, 2006 8:58:48 AM EDT
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: new projects bypassing incubator
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On Thu, Jun 22, 2006 at 08:11:49AM -0400, Garrett Rooney wrote:
On 6/22/06, Noel J. Bergman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Justin,
re: http://lucene.apache.org/lucy
Is this a new project starting within Lucene, or an import? Or
something
grey in the middle? Perhaps Doug Cutting can give us more details.
Incubation is not required, as I understand it, for projects
originating
within the ASF. For example, JAMES has a new internal project called
Postage, which is our mail server test suite, written entirely by our
Committers.
In all likelihood, we should do more about promoting new projects that
originate within the ASF, but are we saying that they should go through
Incubation?
I don't see why incubation would be required for that kind of thing.
It's new code, so there shouldn't be any IP issues, and it's an
existing community, so there shouldn't be any "this is how we do
things" issues.
Assuming that both of those assumptions are true, then I don't see
what the incubator's involvement would be.
The phrase that sends up a flag for me in the Lucy website was:
"KinoSearch's back end will serve as a template"
That sounds like a code import to me. But, if I'm wrong, then I agree
and I
don't see why the Incubator needs to be involved...
*shrug* -- justin
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