FYI, Mahout has a proposal in the works too, including a Board Resolution if you feel like copying one at the appropriate point in time. See the Mahout as TLP thread over on Mahout Dev: http://www.lucidimagination.com/search/document/e5ca8dabd6f79a9d/discuss_mahout_tlp_board_resolution
-Grant On Mar 13, 2010, at 7:10 AM, Grant Ingersoll wrote: > Makes sense to me. Tika is cranking these days and while it's great to have > in Lucene, it makes more sense on it's own from an ASF organizational > standpoint. > > -Grant > > On Mar 12, 2010, at 12:37 PM, Mattmann, Chris A (388J) wrote: > >> Hey Guys, >> >> If you're on gene...@lucene then you've probably seen it mentioned it's >> worth discussing Tika as an Apache TLP. I'd like to get the community view >> on this since I think it likely makes sense: >> >> * Nothing in Tika depends on any of the other Lucene project jars >> * Tika provides functionality (mime type, language detection, parsing) that >> are useable not just in the context of search >> * We are moving forward as a community (0.7 release hopefully soon, I'll try >> and cut a release within the next 2 weeks of that) >> >> What does the community think? I can take the outcome of the discussions and >> call a VOTE (if it makes sense), then take that to the PMC (in a couple >> weeks after some of the other discussions have died down) and see what they >> think too. >> >> Cheers, >> Chris >> >> >> ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ >> Chris Mattmann, Ph.D. >> Senior Computer Scientist >> NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory Pasadena, CA 91109 USA >> Office: 171-266B, Mailstop: 171-246 >> Email: chris.mattm...@jpl.nasa.gov >> WWW: http://sunset.usc.edu/~mattmann/ >> ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ >> Adjunct Assistant Professor, Computer Science Department >> University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089 USA >> ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ >> >> > >