Hi Dennis, > It was late when I wrote that, maybe my analogy was not clear. You are > echoing what I was trying to say that that Hadoop != Nutch and it > wouldn't have been as useful if it had only ever been viewed that way. > I think part of this discussion is looking at Lucene as needing things > that are beyond it. That should be other projects. > > Here is my logic FWIW: > > Solr depends on Lucene. > Many other projects depend critically on Lucene > Not all of those projects depend on Solr > Solr and Lucene have different responsibilities > Therefore Solr != Lucene and should not merge dev. > > Should Solr work more closely to move some of it pieces into Lucene if > they are applicable. Yes. To me that doesn't mean merge.
+1, my sentiments exactly. Cheers, Chris > > Dennis > > Ted Dunning wrote: >> This logic escapes me. >> >> Nutch hatched Hadoop. Hadoop was perceived to be of much broader utility >> than just for nutch so it was made more general and a separate project was >> formed. Hadoop does not depend on Nutch. >> >> Lucene existed. Solr was built to make it easier to use Lucene. The >> developers of Solr built a bunch of stuff that was specific to server-ness >> and a bunch of stuff that would have general utility to many Lucene >> developers. Solr depends critically on Lucene and can be seen as a Lucene >> wrapper. >> >> How does this analogy fit together? Is it supposed to be Hadoop is to Nutch >> as Solr is to Lucene? That seems so clearly wrong it can't be what you were >> saying. >> >> On Mon, Mar 8, 2010 at 10:10 PM, Dennis Kubes <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>>> 3) For new Lucene features, there would be an effort to integrate it >>>> into Solr. >>> No. Because by specializing towards Solr, or Nutch, or any of the hundred >>> other applications that use Lucene, it looses its general applicability. >>> Where would Hadoop be if it never made it past Nutch? >>> >> > ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 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 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
