> > On Nov 15, 2015, at 22:54, Jeff Breidenbach <j...@jab.org> wrote: > > > > I don't understand this. Lucene is the dominant open source search > > software, and Python continues to gain popularity. > > Why is there a decline in interest? > > Dunno. The PMC lives in Java land and doesn't pay much attention. And I > stopped nagging them. As for users, there are plenty of them (?) but they don't > participate or otherwise show interest by voting for releases. > > Andi..
That's a pitty. So back to the current state: the project is dormant due to lack of interest? Or is is dead already? If it's the users who should show more interest - I think that can be organized. Please hands up ,-) Already noticed some reactions and votes. I also voted for some releases (and provided some minor code contributions) in the past, but never really understood the voting process: always (at least) 3 members of the PMC (=project management committee) must vote for a release, right? So votes of ordinary users do not count at all or are just "sugar" ? (If that's the case : why should 'ordinary' users votes anyway?). And if members of the PMC are not interested in the project it's probably the wrong committee ... is there a PMC for Lucene only or one for Java Lucene and one for PyLucene? I found this website which explains the PMC process in Apache world http://www.apache.org/dev/pmc.html#what-is-a-pmc .... but didn't find about Lucene PMC in particular - please point me to a website with more details if this is available -thx. The resource https://svn.apache.org/repos/private/committers/board/committee-info.txt linked on the above website is read protected. Regards, Thomas -- OrbiTeam Software GmbH & Co. KG . http://www.orbiteam.de
