Hi Erik,In the incubator, responsibility for proposing new committers lies with the PPMC, which is a problem here because both of the folks with this responsibility are leaving.
I'd agree with you to kick the project back to the Lucene PMC for further action.
Restarting the project will require new Mentors (hopefully 3 will volunteer) and new committers, which sounds like a full proposal to the incubator would be the right path to take. Looking through the documentation on the incubator site, I can't find the original (wiki) proposal nor who the sponsoring entity is.
Craig On Feb 25, 2008, at 8:54 AM, Erik Hatcher wrote:
On Feb 22, 2008, at 7:52 AM, Santiago Gala wrote:El vie, 22-02-2008 a las 09:34 +0100, Endre Stølsvik escribió:Bertrand Delacretaz wrote:Another option might be to take the code somewhere else for a while, work on it, gather a community and come back to the incubator when theproject has gathered some momentum.Why would that be a good idea? The infrastructure is already set up and working at Apache, and Lucene (the actual one!) is an Apache project.If I remember correctly, Lucene.NET is supposed to graduate into Lucene.I guess the Lucene PMC would be a good place to ask for opinion or volunteers for keeping the .NET port alive.I have passed this issue over to the Lucene PMC (CC'd here too). There are two issues, one is in getting some interested committers added to the project - and there have been a few folks that have contributed significantly to the project that would be suitable I think.The second issue is that I am not the right person to continue to mentor this project. I have never used (nor intend to use) .NET, and I also have no time/interest for helping with this project. My Lucene focus has turned to Solr, which I say is a better way to put Lucene on .NET anyway (though of course that requires running a JVM in the mix too, which is of course prohibitive in many .NET environments). So we really need a new mentor for this project as well.There may be a Lucene PMCer who is interested in volunteering to mentor, but he is not an Apache Member. As I understand it, membership is required to be a mentor, right?Where to now? Thanks, Erik --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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