Hi Satish, You can definitely lobby ASF to restart the project if you indicate familiarity with the codebase and have general buy-in from the Lucene community.
I would begin by getting onto the general lucene Dev mailing list and feel out what they think were the challenges and reasons behind Lucene C becoming dormant. Additionally, nothing stops you from getting the current source tree and working on it locally yourself (or with a team of your own fellows) and perhaps make a tangible functional improvement or improve compatibility with new versions of Lucene. Lobbying the ASF after demonstrating your ability to manipulate the current source tree is MUCH easier vs. on merit alone. Another decent idea would be to innovate on the current trend of porting Lucene to a language like say.......... Haskell :) Haskell is an interesting choice because it has an excellent extension interface (Foreign Function Interface) to include C code: http://blog.danieroux.com/2007/01/01/simple-demonstration-of-haskell-ffi/ If you need some connections @ ASF, let me know. Cheers, Zubin. On Thu, Apr 10, 2008 at 11:25 AM, Satish Eerpini <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Namita, > > thanks for the links, i will keep u informed of the progress, > would it be a good idea, if i had plans to revive the whole idea of > porting Lucene in C, considering that i do not know anythign about the > Lucene classes, and that i know considerably lesser C, but i am ready to > learn, .... ? > > On 4/10/08, Namita Iyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED] <namita%40twincling.org>> > wrote: > > > > eerpinisatish wrote: > > > hi everyone , ... > > > i have been looking at Lucene , and found out that a C api had been > > > under development . The search library was ported to C , but i could > > > not find anything more than that, could anyone throw some light on > > > this ??? > > > > > > > The C library development project for Lucene was officially closed > > on 15th October, 2006 due to lack of activity. > > > > The sources are available at: > > https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/incubator/lucene4c/ > > > > You can find documentation about the APIs here: > > http://incubator.apache.org/lucene4c/apidocs/dir_000000.html > > (click on each file and see the functions and structures) > > > > You will have to try out the APIs to understand what they do and if they > > work. Not many details in the documentation. > > > > Let us know how it goes. > > > > > > > >
