On Fri, Oct 19, 2012 at 6:22 PM, Eric Caron <[email protected]> wrote:
> I have not heard from sole project maintainer Israel Ekpo ([email protected]) > since July 7th. The last email from him was: > > Good morning Eric, > > > > This sounds like a great idea. Do you have access to commit to the PECL > > source control? If not, you can send them to me as patches and I will > check > > them in. Thanks for offering to help. Some of the tasks require building > on > > windows. Others require changing the internal architecture of the > > extension. Let's get together and chat. What city do you live in? What > time > > zone are you located? What are your availabities for a quick chat and > > review of the bugs? > > Sent via BlackBerry from T-Mobile > > > > 5 emails since then have gone unanswered. He has not shown any activity on > his other outlets since that time either (https://twitter.com/israelekpo, > https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=62835) > > Since then, Lucene/Solr 4 have some out and, with it, many of the 3.x > deprecated features have been removed and 4.x yields errors when using the > extension. I've been addressing as many of the bugs as I can in my GitHub > fork (https://github.com/ecaron/php-pecl-solr), and have been actively > maintaining the dll extension (https://github.com/ecaron/php_solr.dll). It > is likely that previous users of the extension are switching to Solarium ( > http://www.solarium-project.org/), and I feel the community is best served > by having 2 well maintained Solr/PHP offerings. The 1.x branch needs an > update, and a 2.x needs to be started to compensate for functions invoking > parameters that have been completely removed from the core (1.x branch will > simply ignore them.) > > Hoping this satisfactorily states my case, > Eric Caron (@ecaron) > Hi Eric, I've opened your pecl account request and assigned you to the solr package. -- Ferenc Kovács @Tyr43l - http://tyrael.hu
