[pylucene-dev] PyLucene ownership, mid to long-term

[Andi Vajda]

PyLucene is not exactly a port, more like a non-port :).
It is Java Lucene compiled by GCJ.

Andi..

On Fri, 25 Jun 2004 ogjunk-pylucene at yahoo.com wrote:

> Hello,
>
> Quick intro: Otis Gospodnetic, co-author of Lucene in Action, long-time
> Lucene developer.
>
> Nice to see another Lucene port
> (http://www.jroller.com/page/otis/20040625#why_writing_a_book_about)!
>
> I noticed
> (http://wiki.osafoundation.org/twiki/bin/view/Chandler/PyLuceneGoals)
> that one of the goals of PyLucene is " Ultimately to attract a non-OSAF
> staff person as the owner for pylucene [mid to long-term]". I want to
> mention that we (some Lucene developers) had talked about making Lucene
> a top-level ASF (Apache Software Foundation) project, instead of it
> being a sub-project of Jakarta.  When/if we make Lucene a top-level ASF
> project, we would probably like to gather various Lucene ports there,
> too, build a strong community of users and developers, and unify
> progress of all ports, so that none lags behind others.  I personally
> am very busy with Lucene in Action, Simpy (signature), work, etc., so I
> am not pushing this migration from Jakarta, but once the work-load
> lessens (Fall 2004, likely), I will try to move forward with what I
> just described.
>
> Otis
>
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