Hi Yonik, >> I have built 10s of projects that >> have simply used Lucene as an API and had no need for Solr, and I've built >> 10s of projects where Solr made perfect sense. So, I appreciate their >> separation. > > As does everyone - which is why there will always be separate > downloads. As a user, the only side affect you should see is an > improved Lucene and Solr.
Developers make downloads. Software processes guide developers who are producing those downloads. Policies guide the direction of a project. They are intimately intertwined. > > Saying that Solr should move some stuff to Lucene for Lucene's > benefit, without regard to if it's actually benefitial to Solr, is a > non-starter. I'm not sure it's Solr's decision what the Lucene committers decide to move to Lucene, neither is it Lucene's decision in the opposite direction. These are all Apache projects, subprojects of the Lucene TLP. I'm not sure what the debate is? If Solr wants elements from Lucene that aren't part of Solr yet b/c Solr is relying on an old version of Lucene: 1. upgrade to Lucene trunk and address the issues it brings in Solr 2. duplicate the Lucene code in Solr, address any issues there, and then contribute it back I'd recommend the same to any project, regardless of what TLP it resides in, and in many cases, where it's at the ASF, or Sourceforge, or wherever. It seems kind of incestuous and an abuse of power to make the case that "well because we're all committers on both projects, then this..." I keep hearing a lot of talk about "hats", which in analogy means that though you are one person you have different concerns/projects/etc. This is another example of the need to maintain separate hats. Cheers, Chris ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 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 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
