Having skimmed most of the thread... It seems the question of if CLucene should be a sub-project may be premature considering that it would really need someone in the PMC to champion it -- do the real work to make it happen.
I can see many ways this could be a good addition to lucene land, I can also see many ways that it may just be a distraction. Unless someone actually can work with them, it is a moot point. ryan On Wed, May 19, 2010 at 6:57 PM, Itamar Syn-Hershko <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi all, > > Following a recent discussion with Otis, I would like to request for the > CLucene project to join the ASF, as a sub-project of Lucene. > > CLucene is an important port of Lucene, and is being used very widely for a > few years now. The project aims to be attractive to people who like to use > Lucene but wants to increase performance or reduce the overheads of using a > JVM, for C++ developers; and eventually for users of various high-level or > scripting languages. > > We are currently hosting on SourceForge; our latest release conforms to Java > Lucene 1.9.1, but the master branch in our git repository works with 2.3.2 > indexes, and is being worked on for a while now. More info is available in > our website (http://clucene.sourceforge.net/) and project page > (https://sourceforge.net/projects/clucene/). > > CLucene is currently released under the LGPL and the Apache 2.0 licenses > (dual). If this needs changing, we will need some legal help to do that > correctly. > > Please advise on how to pursue this, and what needs to be done from our end. > This move is very important to us, and could also benefit the Lucene > community. Hopefully, we could make this happen. > > Itamar. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
