re: Plan of action to keep Lucene.NET an official ASF project

2010-11-08 Thread Paul Hadfield
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RE: [jira] Commented: (LUCENENET-377) Upgrade solution to VS2010

2010-11-10 Thread Paul Hadfield
I'm not so sure, as a relative newbie to Open Source projects (in using) I'm amazed at how difficult the learning curve is when downloading projects. Just to build things you have to install 'x' other things, stand on one leg and press enter with your elbow from the other side of the room. In

RE: Lucene project announcement

2010-11-12 Thread Paul Hadfield
It feels to be that the problem is being approached a* about face (i.e. the wrong way wrong). Maybe it is the way that ASF works but do the constraints of Java define "Lucene, or should it bigger than that? Should Lucene be a full text engine concept that can safely be developed in multiple la