[KinoSearch] Lucy development commences

[Marvin Humphrey]

Greets,

Here we go!

    http://lucene.apache.org/lucy/

Lucy has been approved as a sub-project of Lucene, and all the  
infrastructure (mailing lists, repositories, etc) is in now in place.

If all goes as planned, the upgrade path for KinoSearch users will be  
to adopt Lucy when it becomes sufficiently mature.

I would very much appreciate it if KinoSearch users who have opinions  
about the API sign up for the Lucy developers list by sending a  
message to <lucy-dev-subscribe at lucene.apache.org>.  Lucy's API will  
come closer to Lucene's than KinoSearch's does, but just how close  
will be a matter of debate.  It will be easier for me to advocate for  
certain KinoSearch-isms if somebody's there to back me up with an "I  
like that", casting the change as something positive rather than a  
critique.  Speak up now or forever hold your peace about Lucy's  
peculiarly Java-esque interface.  :)

People interested in the "rich positions" scoring enhancement should  
expect some lively discussion on that topic in due course.  Also, if  
you want to see the dang "Alpha" label come off Lucy as soon as  
possible, I could use your input.  In order to make that happen,  
we'll need to design a plugin-based file-reader, something that will  
have implications for compatibility with Java Lucene.  The nature of  
CPAN and the fact that Perl is compiled just before execution makes  
it difficult to deprecate API facets or change file formats in the  
way that Java Lucene has at major version increments.  It would be  
nice if I wasn't the only one available to explain requirements like  
that.

Some hard-core stuff will fly by, and you can delete or peruse  
however much of it you like.  Regardless, it will be nice to have a  
choice and a public record of the development process -- since the  
KinoSearch rewrite was pretty much a solo project until it was  
launched, the inner workings have been more obscured from the user- 
base than I would prefer.  Now maybe I'll be able to point people at  
archives more often rather than writing so many giganto-mails.  :)

Banzai!

Marvin Humphrey
Rectangular Research
http://www.rectangular.com/


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