Otis,
I have mixed feelings on this particular subject because of experience as an
Ant committer. Ant has taken in a lot of tasks that burdens the committers
with maintenance issues and backwards compatibility support. But Ant is
also useless without tasks.
Lucene doesn't have quite the burden of maintaining backwards compatibility
on such extensions as Ant does (I don't think), but certainly the analogy
applies in general. Lucene as an API is great, but you need the "glue" to
really make it useful.
I think a 'contrib' area maintained in Jakarta's Lucene repository would be
a good thing, with any such disclaimers needed to make it understood that
the Lucene committers will do their best to keep them maintained but its not
a priority.
Erik
----- Original Message -----
From: "Otis Gospodnetic" <otis_gospodnetic@yahoo.com>
To: "Lucene Developers List" <lucene-dev@jakarta.apache.org>
Sent: Tuesday, February 19, 2002 4:06 PM
Subject: Re: Lucene - Dynamo glue class -- How to make it available to
users?
> Peter,
>
> We should change the way we deal with contributions in the long run, or
> we risk those contributions disappearing with time (people leave
> companies, URLs became invalid, and mailing list archives don't seem
> like a place to use a code repository).
>
> How about getting a more serious place for storing contributions?
> For instance, a Lucene Contributions project on SourceForge or
> something such?
> Ideally Apache/Jakarta would have a place for user contributions.
> Perhaps we could just have a contributions directory under Lucene (with
> clear statements that Lucene developers can't really help users with
> those or something that will limit the amount of incoming emails).
>
> Just thinking out loud...
>
> Otis
>
>
> --- Peter Carlson <carlson@bookandhammer.com> wrote:
> > Hi eric,
> >
> > If you send it in an email, I will add it to the contributions
> > sections.
> > This is a link to contributions that are not part of the main lucene
> > build.
> >
> > The link will be directly to your email in a mail-archive.
> >
> > Thnaks
> >
> > --Peter
> >
> > On 2/19/02 12:17 PM, "Eric Fixler" <fix@smete.org> wrote:
> >
> > > Hello All. Thanks for Lucene.
> > >
> > > My main workplace uses ATG Dynamo as the application server. I
> > wrote a
> > > class to help use Lucene Documents with Dynamo --
> > > essentially a BeanInfo type class that lets Dynamo discover the
> > Fields
> > > in an existing Document so the Document's properties can be
> > referred to
> > > in jhtml (the markup language used by Dynamo).
> > >
> > > I can make this class available; the interest is no doubt pretty
> > > limited, but it would probably be useful to people who have to use
> > > Dynamo. It doesn't really seem to belong to the main
> > org.apache.lucene
> > > tree. I was curious if anyone had suggestions as to what would be
> > an
> > > appropriate way to make this available.
> > >
> > > thanks
> > > eric
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > -------------------------------------------------------------------
> > > Eric Fixler v:510/643-0106
> > > Senior Software Developer f:510/643-1822
> > > http://www.smete.org e:fix@smete.org
> > >
> > >
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