Ryan, I'm not familiar with the Apache way of doing things. It is my understanding that if the invitation is initiated by the PMC itself, no incubation process nor a champion are required. Considering CLucene's age and proven stability, I was hoping we could go that route. If we need a PMC member as a champion, may this be a call for one.
Considering CLucene is targetting a very different users base than Lucene is, I don't see how it can possibly be a distraction. On the countrary - many optimizations done in CLucene back in the old days were later adapted by Lucene itself, and I'm sure this will continue. Also, I believe CLucene has a great part in promoting Lucene, especially among non-Java developers. So, I don't see how CLucene is a moot point more than Lucene.Net for example has ever been. I would love to be working with anyone to get this process properly defined and started. A proposal is being worked on. Itamar. -----Original Message----- From: Ryan McKinley [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Wednesday, May 26, 2010 10:51 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Adding CLucene as a Lucene subproject 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] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
