On Mar 4, 2010, at 6:26 PM, Chris Hostetter wrote:

> 
> : Subject: [VOTE] Merge the development of Solr/Lucene (take 2)
> : 
> : A new vote, that slightly changes proposal from last vote (adding only
> : that Lucene can cut a release even if Solr doesn't):
> 
> -1
> 
> I still don't like that we're voting on a "Goal"

I would add that we vote on "goals" all the time.  We vote to incubate projects 
with the goal of bringing them into Lucene and them becoming successful (that 
doesn't always work).  We vote on adding committers/PMC members with the goal 
of them contributing to our project (there have been a fair number of cases 
where we make someone a committer/PMC member and they hardly do anything after 
being elected.)  We vote on artifacts w/ the "goal" that the community will 
find them useable.  ;-)

Somewhat tongue in cheek, I know, but I don't see how we can take on 
incremental changes if they are fundamentally dead in the water b/c no one 
agrees on the end "goal".  I'd be hard pressed to volunteer to work on such a 
thing if it didn't have some chance of being accepted.

-Grant

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