Hi Mark, > > That would really be no real world change from how things work today. The fact > is, today, Solr already operates essentially as an independent project.
Well if that's the case, then it would lead me to think that it's more of a TLP more than anything else per best practices. > The only real difference is that it shares the same PMC with Lucene now and > wouldn't with this change. This would address none of the issues that > triggered > the idea for a possible merge. I don't agree -- you're looking to bring together two communities that are "fairly separate" as you put it. The separation likely didn't spring up over night and has been this way for a while (as least to my knowledge). This is exactly the type of situation that typically leads to TLP creation from what I've seen. Cheers, Chris > > > > On 03/01/2010 10:04 AM, Mattmann, Chris A (388J) wrote: >> Hey Grant, >> >> I¹d like to explore this< does this imply that the Lucene sub-projects will >> go away and Lucene will turn into Lucene-java and maintain its Apache TLP, >> and then you¹d have say, solr.apache.org, tika.apache.org, mahout.apache.org >> (already started), etc. etc.? If so, that may be the best of all worlds, >> allowing project independence, but also not following the Apache >> "antipattern" as Doug put it... >> >> Cheers, >> Chris >> >> >> >> On 3/1/10 7:28 AM, "Grant Ingersoll"<[email protected]> wrote: >> >> >>> Also, as Doug alluded to, the Board is likely to ask us to consider less >>> subprojects in the future, so we may be consolidating and spinning off >>> anyway. >>> >> >> ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ >> Chris Mattmann, Ph.D. >> Senior Computer Scientist >> NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory Pasadena, CA 91109 USA >> Office: 171-266B, Mailstop: 171-246 >> Email: [email protected] >> Phone: +1 (818) 354-8810 >> ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ >> Adjunct Assistant Professor, Computer Science Department >> University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089 USA >> ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ >> >> >> > > > -- > - Mark > > http://www.lucidimagination.com > > > > ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Chris Mattmann, Ph.D. Senior Computer Scientist NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory Pasadena, CA 91109 USA Office: 171-266B, Mailstop: 171-246 Email: [email protected] WWW: http://sunset.usc.edu/~mattmann/ ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Adjunct Assistant Professor, Computer Science Department University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089 USA ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
