Hi Andi, I don't agree that it is unimportant to make PyLucene releases. Without a ready-to-run software package the hurdles to use PyLucene are raised. It is already not quite simple (for beginners) to install PyLucene on the various platforms. Having a packaged release that is tested by some users provides a benefit to the community in my opinion.
However I can understand your arguments - there has been little feedback on your release announcements on the list recently. On the other hand there are frequent discussions about PyLucene on the list so I don't think the interest has declined. Did you check the number of downloads of the PyLucene distributions (if this is possible at all - due to the distributed releases on the apache mirrors ...)? This would be a more accurate indicator from my point of view. I must also admit that I did never understand the voting process in detail - i.e. who are the PMC members and what impact have votes of non PMC users. Maybe some more transparency and another "call for action" would help to raise awareness in the community. Just my thoughts... regards, Thomas -- OrbiTeam Software GmbH & Co. KG http://www.orbiteam.de > -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- > Von: Andi Vajda [mailto:va...@apache.org] > Gesendet: Donnerstag, 24. April 2014 02:28 > An: pylucene-dev@lucene.apache.org > Betreff: release votes > > > Hi all, > > Given the tiny amount of interest the pylucene releases create, it's maybe > become unimportant to actually make PyLucene releases ? > > The release votes have had an increasingly difficult time to garner the three > required PMC votes to pass. Non PMC users are also eerily quiet. > > Maybe the time has come to switch to a different model: > > - when a Lucene release happens, a PyLucene branch gets created with all > the necessary changes to build successfully and pass all tests against > this Lucene release > - users interested in PyLucene check out that branch > - done > > - no more releases, no more votes > > JCC can continue to be released to PyPI independently as it is today. > That doesn't require any voting anyway (?). > > What do readers of this list think ? > > Andi..
