I wish we could somehow lose that "Lucene-Java". The -Java part seems so forced, like we couldn't come up with anything better.
Otis ----- Original Message ---- > From: Chris Hostetter <[email protected]> > To: "[email protected]" <[email protected]> > Sent: Tue, March 23, 2010 2:43:36 PM > Subject: RE: Branding Solr+Lucene > > (note: conciously, and deliberately confined my reply to only > general@) : - Lucene will remain the name of the Apache TLP hosting both > the : Lucene-Java product and the Solr product. : : - Solr, while > ceasing to refer to a stand-alone development sub-project, : will continue > to be a product, with no change in its user-facing : *product* > communications; Solr's downloadable artifacts, the wiki, the : website, and > the solr-user mailing list will remain as-is. (The website : javadocs > will need re-jiggering, though, I'd guess.) Exactly! ... the key thing to > remember is that since Lucene becamse a TLP that graduated from Jakarta, > there has always only ever been one "Project" and that project is "Apache > Lucene". The Project has released numerous different "Proudcts" over > the years and (for various historical reasons) we have in the past > constructed largely artificial partitions of our development efforts arround > those Products. All we have done at this point is remove some of those > partitions between the development of the "Lucene-Java" product and the > "Solr" product ... that doesn't mean that the Project, or either of those > two Products need new names/branding. (There has always been some > minor confusion about the "Lucene-Java" Product also being refered to as > simply "Lucene" but nothing about the recent changes really has any impact > on that) -Hoss
