RE: Lucene.NET Community Status

2010-11-07 Thread George Aroush
ssage- From: Wyatt Barnett [mailto:wyatt.barn...@gmail.com] Sent: Saturday, November 06, 2010 3:15 PM To: lucene-net-dev Subject: Re: Lucene.NET Community Status I can't speak to many of the points as they are above my pay grade -- I'll let the lumaniries here deal with them. I can speak

Re: Lucene.NET Community Status

2010-11-06 Thread Wyatt Barnett
I can't speak to many of the points as they are above my pay grade -- I'll let the lumaniries here deal with them. I can speak to a few of the bullets: 2) Yes, searching for lucene.net on CodePlex does get one a number of lucene related projects. But if someone is already searching for "lucene.net

RE: Lucene.NET Community Status

2010-11-06 Thread Alex Thompson
t-dev@lucene.apache.org Subject: RE: Lucene.NET Community Status Hi Everyone, Again, my apology for the long post, but like I did before, I am going to reply in one post to answer and clarify questions around this subject -- again, my points and clarification below are in no particular ord

Re: Lucene.NET Community Status

2010-11-06 Thread Peter Mateja
Just wanted to pipe in here... my company is also going to be utilizing Lucene.net (I'm the Lucene evangelist) and I will definitely be willing to start contributing to the update effort. I agree with the points George made below... It'd be nice to get trunk up to date, and be able to pull patches

Re: Lucene.NET Community Status

2010-11-06 Thread Barry Latimer
George, Great summary of everything that is going on with Lucene.NET. Once you produce that actionable list of items I'm more than willing to help out where I can. On Fri, Nov 5, 2010 at 8:39 PM, George Aroush wrote: > Hi Everyone, > > Again, my apology for the long post, but like I did before,

RE: Lucene.NET Community Status

2010-11-05 Thread George Aroush
Hi Everyone, Again, my apology for the long post, but like I did before, I am going to reply in one post to answer and clarify questions around this subject -- again, my points and clarification below are in no particular order or importance. 1) SVN: Whatever backend source repository is used, as

RE: Lucene.NET Community Status

2010-11-03 Thread George Aroush
o grok the internals. -- George -Original Message- From: Ciaran Roarty [mailto:ciaran.roa...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, November 03, 2010 2:14 AM To: lucene-net-u...@lucene.apache.org Cc: lucene-net-dev@lucene.apache.org Subject: Re: Lucene.NET Community Status Also, and this is a persistent th

Re: Lucene.NET Community Status

2010-11-03 Thread Grant Ingersoll
Just to be clear, there is a third option in all of this besides Attic or Incubator and it is what I wrote in the original email. Remedy the 4 items (quoted below) and then go to the Board to be a Top Level Project. Clearly, the life in this thread shows that #1 can be met if people are willin

RE: Lucene.NET Community Status

2010-11-03 Thread George Aroush
To: lucene-net-u...@lucene.apache.org Cc: lucene-net-dev@lucene.apache.org Subject: Re: Lucene.NET Community Status George I don't think this conversation is over so I don't feel it requires a new email thread. In essence you are saying that everything should stay the same, am I correct?

Re: Lucene.NET Community Status

2010-11-03 Thread Michael Mitiaguin
I am just curious , quite clearly JCLA ( because it is old ) knows nothing about new language constructs, what it does then with all that. Lucene 3.0.2 The API was cleaned up to make use of Java 5's generics, varargs, enums, and autoboxing. New users of Lucene are advised to use this version fo

Re: Lucene.NET Community Status

2010-11-02 Thread Grant Ingersoll
On Nov 2, 2010, at 2:02 PM, Josh Handel wrote: > One thing that has yet to be answered on this list is this : > > What does Apache Foundation provide, that the project does not received on > its own OTHER than the name "Lucene".. I hear a lot of what Apache > requests of us, beyond a name

Re: Lucene.NET Community Status

2010-11-02 Thread George Aroush
Hi Everyone, Rather than responding to each email, I will write up one response. The points is in no significant order or priority. 1) IKVM: Since it doesn't give you source code, you end up with Java look and fell, all the way from API to classes to exceptions. If this is valuable option

RE: Lucene.NET Community Status

2010-11-02 Thread Granroth, Neal V.
ties to advance their development skills. If the project were moved elsewhere, I do not think it would survive. - Neal -Original Message- From: Digy [mailto:digyd...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, November 02, 2010 2:01 PM To: lucene-net-u...@lucene.apache.org Subject: RE: Lucene.NET Community

Re: Lucene.NET Community Status

2010-11-02 Thread Ben Martz
.@catapultsystems.com] Sent: Tuesday, November 02, 2010 1:02 PM To: lucene-net-u...@lucene.apache.org Cc: lucene-net-dev@lucene.apache.org; Lucene mailing list Subject: RE: Lucene.NET Community Status One thing that has yet to be answered on this list is this : What does Apache Foundation provide, t

Re: Lucene.NET Community Status

2010-11-02 Thread Arne Claassen
Forking and going somewhere else certainly has the "grass is greener" gleam to it. The association with the much larger java Lucene community and the expertise that community has (since the .NET community seems to be mostly consumers of the tech, given the various comments about the compl

Re: Lucene.NET Community Status

2010-11-02 Thread Grant Ingersoll
On Nov 2, 2010, at 1:20 PM, Granroth, Neal V. wrote: > > We've already been through this process once before. Why repeat? Because clearly it didn't take the first time and this time the goal is to demonstrate the community can stand on its own two feet as an Apache Top Level Project (TLP).

RE: Lucene.NET Community Status

2010-11-02 Thread Granroth, Neal V.
cene-net-u...@lucene.apache.org; lucene-net-dev@lucene.apache.org Cc: Lucene mailing list Subject: RE: Lucene.NET Community Status A better way to put that is.. Thank you for the background, we would hate to repeat history due to being un-aware of it.. Now to returned to our regularly scheduled repeat of histor

RE: Lucene.NET Community Status

2010-11-02 Thread Granroth, Neal V.
bject: Re: Lucene.NET Community Status On Oct 30, 2010, at 11:07 PM, Michael Mitiaguin wrote: > I've been using Lucene.Net since 2005 and know its history quite well. Just > some comments : > > 1. What actually PMC expects ? At this point, I think the PMC expects to see a plan

Re: Lucene.NET Community Status

2010-11-02 Thread Vincent Daron
Hi all Sharpen from db4o could maybe replace jlca My 2cents... Vincent Le 1 nov. 2010 à 21:55, George Aroush a écrit : Let me jump in here and offer some perspective about Lucene.Net (btw, it's not Lucene.NET :-) ). This is based on my past involvement with the project -- since 2003 whe

Re: Lucene.NET Community Status

2010-11-01 Thread Ben Martz
ev@lucene.apache.org Subject: Re: Lucene.NET Community Status Damn, you bet me to it. I was just about to post the same thing. http://foodformonkeys.blogspot.com/2010/10/ngit.html It was used here (recently - over the weekend I think) to port JGit into NGit I'd stick my hand up - having u

Re: Lucene.NET Community Status

2010-11-01 Thread Arne Claassen
On Nov 1, 2010, at 1:55 PM, George Aroush wrote: 3) Put together an official Lucene.Net 2.9.2 and get it released. George, What's involved in #3? Just build the binaries, strip out the source and zip up similar to the 2.0 release? I'd like to help get this out the door. thanks, Arne C

RE: Lucene.NET Community Status

2010-11-01 Thread Phil Haack
little nudge in the right direction and I'll see what I can do to help. Phil -Original Message- From: George Aroush [mailto:geo...@aroush.net] Sent: Monday, November 01, 2010 1:56 PM To: lucene-net-u...@lucene.apache.org; lucene-net-...@incubator.apache.org Subject: RE: Lucene.NET Comm

RE: Lucene.NET Community Status

2010-11-01 Thread George Aroush
Let me jump in here and offer some perspective about Lucene.Net (btw, it's not Lucene.NET :-) ). This is based on my past involvement with the project -- since 2003 when it was on SourceForge.net and called dotLucene. 1) Up until early this year, I have been porting and supporting Lucene

Re: Lucene.NET Community Status

2010-10-31 Thread Grant Ingersoll
On Oct 30, 2010, at 11:07 PM, Michael Mitiaguin wrote: > I've been using Lucene.Net since 2005 and know its history quite well. Just > some comments : > > 1. What actually PMC expects ? At this point, I think the PMC expects to see a plan and action for either going back to Incubation and bec

RE: Lucene.NET Community Status

2010-10-30 Thread Digy
Hi Grant, George and all Lucene.Net community, As a Lucene.Net committer, I didn't quit the project, but stopped deliberately answering the questions and making commits to show no other committers were willing to keep the project alive.(like Apache Board Report. The only response from commiters wa

Re: Lucene.NET Community Status

2010-10-30 Thread Dmitri Volsky
Hi, You can count me in. I will be glad to help keep Lucene .Net community alive as well as contribute to development. Dima

Re: Lucene.NET Community Status

2010-10-30 Thread Alex
I'd be interested in providing some new blood for the commits. I'm relatively new to Lucene, but a long time .NET developer. Alex

Re: Lucene.NET Community Status

2010-10-30 Thread Grant Ingersoll
On Oct 30, 2010, at 1:56 PM, Simone Chiaretta wrote: > > Personally I don't care if Lucene.net is part of the ASF, in the incubator > or hosted on CodePlex as standalone project, as long as there are releases, > and some committers are working on it. > Maybe Lucene.net could follow the same step

Re: Lucene.NET Community Status

2010-10-30 Thread Grant Ingersoll
list, but I hope by doing so > it gets some extra visibility. > > Thanks, > > -- George > > -Original Message- > From: Grant Ingersoll [mailto:gsing...@apache.org] > Sent: Saturday, October 30, 2010 6:59 AM > To: lucene-net-u...@lucene.apache.org > Cc: ge

Re: Lucene.NET Community Status

2010-10-30 Thread Arne Claassen
Grant, I've been a user of lucene.net for years and would find its loss a great setback to the community. I've spelunked through the code base a bit here and there to track down issues, but have not been comfortable enough to contribute. As a user i've been very happy with lucene.net to t

RE: Lucene.NET Community Status

2010-10-30 Thread George Aroush
rsoll [mailto:gsing...@apache.org] Sent: Saturday, October 30, 2010 6:59 AM To: lucene-net-u...@lucene.apache.org Cc: gene...@lucene.apache.org; lucene-net-dev@lucene.apache.org Subject: Re: Lucene.NET Community Status On Oct 29, 2010, at 11:19 PM, George Aroush wrote: > Hi Grant and all, > &

Re: Lucene.NET Community Status

2010-10-30 Thread Johannes Roith
Hello, everyone! I'm interested in helping to keep Lucene.net alive and well; Most of my time available for open source development is required for another project, so can't make commitments on contributing code (like helping with porting, etc.). I could fix bugs now and then, and help with testi

Re: Lucene.NET Community Status

2010-10-30 Thread Grant Ingersoll
On Oct 29, 2010, at 11:19 PM, George Aroush wrote: > Hi Grant and all, > > I will get engaged with the project again. The way I see it, by the end of > the year, we must: > > 1) Clean up the website, and / or > 2) Create an official release off the current trunk, and > 3) Sometimes next year,

Re: Lucene.NET Community Status

2010-10-30 Thread Grant Ingersoll
Thanks, Aaron. By the way, to all others reading this: please do not reply to me privately. It does nothing to help the community and in fact just reinforces in my mind that the project is not sustainable at the ASF because people aren't willing to publicly support it. -Grant On Oct 29, 2010

RE: Lucene.NET Community Status

2010-10-29 Thread George Aroush
Hi Grant and all, I will get engaged with the project again. The way I see it, by the end of the year, we must: 1) Clean up the website, and / or 2) Create an official release off the current trunk, and 3) Sometimes next year, port the most current version of Java Lucene. If by the end of the y

Re: Lucene.NET Community Status

2010-10-29 Thread Aaron Powell
I'm sure I'm not the only one who would be really disappointed to loose Lucene.Net from the .Net communities toolbox. I'd be happy to offer up my services to keep the project alive. I'll admit I don't know much about the way projects are run under the Apache umbrella, but I'm keen to ensure that L