Hello Kaushik, kaushik sarkar wrote: > Hi there, > > I worked for Kazeon Search Engine. Where it uses Java Lucene Library. > I am interested to work for it's c counter part. Please provide me necessary > information and pointer to start from.
I take it you are referring to this retired podling: http://incubator.apache.org/lucene4c/ It was retired over a year ago due to lack of developer activity, as you can see on the Incubator project list: http://incubator.apache.org/projects/index.html I'm afraid that the notice about posting to [EMAIL PROTECTED] on the retired podling's page is just a standard notice. In order to be reactivated, Lucene4c would have to go through the regular entry process again: http://incubator.apache.org/incubation/Incubation_Policy.html#Entry+to+Incubation Apart from requiring a champion and sponsor, this would also mean that three Apache members have to volunteer as mentors, and that infrastructure resources such as mailing list are set up again. The simple truth is: it's not going to happen until a whole community of developers shows up. While it is a Herculean task to form a developer community, it is not altogether impossible. You can get started by taking the current Lucene4c code from svn and playing with it: http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/incubator/lucene4c/trunk/ Maybe some of the people who used to work on it can still be found on one of the mailing lists of Lucene (Java) and CLucene (C++): http://lucene.apache.org/mail.html http://sourceforge.net/mail/?group_id=80013 You will have to work with those communities anyway to understand the file formats to which Lucene4c wanted to be compatible. If you played around with the code long enough to know you like it, and you are willing to commit yourself to a long- term engagement, you can take your private fork to Sourceforge or Google Code or some other OSS project hoster. At this point, the gathering of a developer community really starts. You should expect that to take years, unless you happened to find some fellow developers already waiting in the existing communities. Once the forked project is running well, it is finally time to consider taking it to Apache again. That will be the decision of the newly formed developer community. I'm sorry to have no better news for you. cheers anyway, Roland --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
