Hi Thomas,
On Sun, 15 Nov 2015, Thomas Koch wrote:
I?d like to know about the current state of PyLucene and its roadmap. According to the PyLucene website (latest entry 6 Oct 2014) PyLucene 4.10.1 is the latest release whereas Java Lucene 5.0 branch appeared in February 2015 (as of September 2015 Apache Lucene 5.3.1 is available). Are there any plans to continue support for the 5.x branch (or in general current and future Lucene releases) in PyLucene? According to the Lucene website "PyLucene is a Python port of the Core project.? - so it would be great if it could cover the same Lucene as in Java. We?re currently (still) using PyLucene 3.6 and would like to upgrade to a newer release. Question is if we should upgrade to 4.x or wait for 5.x It should be noted that there are certainly some people using PyLucene - for example I came across the lupyne project: Pythonic search engine based on PyLucene, including a standalone server based on CherryPy. https://pypi.python.org/pypi/lupyne <https://pypi.python.org/pypi/lupyne>
The PyLucene project has gone dormant for lack of interest: it can no longer garner the votes, needed from the Lucene PMC, and appreciated from users, to authorize a release via the Apache Foundation. The 4.10.4 release has been languishing in release limbo since March 10, 2015. Doing a port to 5.x is certainly possible but requires some work, especially in porting (some) unit tests from Java to Python. General lack of interest is not a motivating factor. As of now, the way to revive the project would be to vote for releases when they're announced (Lucene PMC _and_ users) and send in patches towards a 5.x port. It would also be a useful move to enable JCC to support Python 3. I'd be happy to get the projects (PyLucene and JCC) going again but not into a void. Thank you for your interest in PyLucene all these years (over 10 years now) ! Andi..
best regards Thomas Koch ? OrbiTeam Software www.orbiteam.de <http://www.orbiteam.de/>
