On Mar 9, 2010, at 10:59 AM, Dennis Kubes wrote: > I agree. Most of those things can/should be moved into Lucene. That doesn't > necessitate merging. Separate responsibilities. > > > For that matter, why do we even need to have this discussion at all? > > > Most of us Solr committers are Lucene committers. We can simply start > > committing Solr code to Lucene such that in 6 months the whole > > discussion is moot and the three committers on Solr who aren't Lucene > > committers can earn their Lucene merit very quickly by patching the > > "Solr" portion of Lucene. We can move all the code to it's > > appropriate place, add a contrib module for the WAR stuff and the > > response writers and voila, Solr is in Lucene, the dev mailing lists > > have merged by the fact that Solr dev would be defunct and all of the > > proposals in this vote are implemented simply by employing our commit > > privileges in a concerted way. > > Am I reading you right. Are you are proposing a hostile takeover of the > Lucene project? Even being committers there needs to be discussion with the > community about the best path. Or are you suggesting we bypass discussion? > I am now even more concerned that merging is not the right way to go. >
No. Would you please re-read it and not quote me out of context. You left the next sentence off, which is of course the vital one.
