On Nov 17, 2015, at 01:27, Thomas Koch <k...@orbiteam.de> wrote: >>> 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?
It's dormant. By that I mean that no work is happening on it until interest is shown again. It can be revived any time by incorporating patches, making a release, fixing bugs, etc... > If it's the users who should show more interest - I think that can be > organized. Please hands up ,-) Users can show interest by voting when a vote is called, sending in patches, feature requests and bug reports. > 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? Yes. Three PMC votes are necessary: mine + two others. We have a large Lucene PMC. Historically, the same two PMC members have been voting for releases. I've stopped nagging them - it became embarrassing. > 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?). They count in that they're a measure of interest in the project. No user votes are a factor in the project going dormant. But the PMC votes are what enable a release. > 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. PyLucene is a sub-project of the Lucene project. To get its own PMC it needs to become a top level project (TLP) and a large requirement of that is an active, preferably sizeable, community of users that contribute to the project. This is not the case for PyLucene. > The resource > https://svn.apache.org/repos/private/committers/board/committee-info.txt > linked on the above website is read protected. I have readily available links to contribute, sorry. Andi.. > > > Regards, > Thomas > -- > OrbiTeam Software GmbH & Co. KG . http://www.orbiteam.de >
