I know of at least half a dozen private implementations of exactly
this. I definitely would like to see some common cause oon it.
Will read proposal in more detail tomorrow morning!
-Brian
On Jan 3, 2006, at 7:19 AM, Yonik Seeley wrote:
Hello Incubator PMC folks,
I would like to propose a new Apache project named Solr.
http://wiki.apache.org/incubator/SolrProposal
The project is being proposed as a sub-project of Lucene, and the
Lucene PMC has agreed to be the sponsor.
-Yonik
'''Proposal for new project Solr '''
Yonik Seeley -- yonik at apache dot org
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'''(0) rationale'''
Solr is a search server based on Apache Lucene and focused on
full-text search, relevancy, and performance.
Some of the server features include:
* Query and update interfaces over HTTP and XML.
* Replication based on index snapshots and rsync.
* A schema allowing declarative specification of fields and their
types, including specification of text analysis filter chains.
* External configuration for Lucene parameters, stopword lists, and
synonym lists.
* A web based admin interface with statistics and debugging.
* An extensive caching framework for filters, queries, documents,
and user caches.
* Plugins for customizing query handling, caching and many other
server aspects.
Solr is currently an internal CNET project, and is used to power
search and faceted browsing in a number of CNET sites.
'''(0.1) criteria'''
''Meritocracy: ''
Solr's developers are comfortable operating as a meritocracy.
''Community: ''
Establishing an active open source community will be the top priority.
''Core Developers:''
Solr starts with three committers.
''Alignment:''
Solr currently uses the following Apache projects: Ant, Lucene.
'''(0.2) warning signs'''
''Orphaned products: ''
Solr is not an orphan, use within CNET is growing rapidly.
''Inexperience with open source:''
Solr's committers are experienced with open source and have made
contributions to other open source projects.
''Homogenous developers:''
Solr's initial committers are all CNET employees since it's currently
an internal project.
''Reliance on salaried developers:''
Some committers are currently paid to make contributions to Solr.
''No ties to other Apache products:''
Solr has strong ties to Lucene.
''A fascination with the Apache brand:''
The committers respect the Apache brand and feel that Apache is the
right place to generate a strong open source community.
'''(1) scope of the subprojects'''
The scope of the project is to provide a stand-alone full-text
search server.
The proposal is that this project become a sub-project of Apache
Lucene.
'''(2) identify the initial source from which the subproject is to be
populated'''
CNET will donate the initial source code for this project.
'''(3) identify the ASF resources to be created '''
'''(3.1) mailing list(s) '''
* solr-dev
* solr-user
'''(3.2) Subversion or CVS repositories'''
* https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/incubator/solr
'''(3.3) Jira '''
* Solr (SOLR)
'''(4) identify the initial set of committers '''
* Yonik Seeley, CNET (Lucene committer)
* Bill Au, CNET
* Chris Hostetter, CNET
'''(5) identify apache sponsoring individual '''
* Doug Cutting, Champion
* Lucene PMC, Sponsor
(as defined in
http://incubator.apache.org/incubation/
Roles_and_Responsibilities.html)
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