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Lucene.Net

18 Dec 2024 [Shad Storhaug / Sander] ¶

## Description:
The mission of Lucene.Net is the creation and maintenance of software related
to Search engine library targeted at .NET runtime users.

## Project Status:
Current project status: Ongoing with high activity
Issues for the board: None

## Membership Data:
Apache Lucene.Net was founded 2012-08-14 (12 years ago)
There are currently 16 committers and 14 PMC members in this project.
The Committer-to-PMC ratio is 8:7.

Community changes, past quarter:
- No new PMC members. Last addition was Ron Clabo on 2022-03-02.
- No new committers. Last addition was Ron Clabo on 2021-06-02.

## Project Activity:
Apache Lucene.Net delivered the latest 4.8.0-beta00017 release on 2024-10-29,
the first release in over two years. Activity has picked up notably in the
past quarter. We are going to need one more beta release (4.8.0-beta00018) to
finish introducing necessary breaking changes, before focusing on finishing up
a 4.8.0 final release. 4.8.0-beta00018 is 46% complete by issue count at the
time of this writing, not including necessary changes to our dependencies J2N
and ICU4N, some of which are significant. Our goal is to deliver this beta in
the first quarter of 2025. The longer-term goal, post-4.8, is to catch up to a
more recent version of Lucene, which should be much easier with our current
foundation.

Our project has also been working on supporting the latest .NET versions,
improving performance through benchmarks, improving the documentation and unit
tests, automating various processes including API comparison, and continuing
to investigate and resolve issues submitted by the community.

## Community Health:
Activity has increased significantly on the project since the last board
report. Commits have increased to about 10.5 commits per week at time of
writing since the last board report, up from about 3.5 per week for the same
time period before that. Community interaction via GitHub issues continues to
be an effective means of communication. Discussions on Slack remain focused on
what is remaining to finish the 4.8 release and we have been putting all
efforts towards this goal.

- builds@lucenenet.apache.org had a 394% increase in traffic in the past
 quarter (94 emails compared to 19)
- dev@lucenenet.apache.org had a 500% increase in traffic in the past quarter
 (522 emails compared to 87)
- 79 commits since last board update (up from 8 in quarter prior to last board
 report)
- 7 code contributors since last board update (same)
- Last release: 2024-10-29 (4.8.0-beta00017) - over 90k downloads on nuget.org
 already

16 Oct 2024 [Shad Storhaug / Rich] ¶

## Description:
The mission of Lucene.Net is the creation and maintenance of software related
to Search engine library targeted at .NET runtime users.

## Project Status:
Current project status: Ongoing
Issues for the board: None

## Membership Data:
Apache Lucene.Net was founded 2012-08-14 (12 years ago)
There are currently 16 committers and 14 PMC members in this project.
The Committer-to-PMC ratio is 8:7.

Community changes, past quarter:
- No new PMC members. Last addition was Ron Clabo on 2022-03-02.
- No new committers. Last addition was Ron Clabo on 2021-06-02.

## Project Activity:
The activity on the project has increased recently, with a focused push to get
the 4.8 release finished by the end of 2024. Some committers have also been
working to contribute to the J2N and ICU4N dependencies to shore them up for a
production 4.8 release. Improvements to the documentation site and various
bugfixes from community feedback have been implemented.

## Community Health:
GitHub discussions have seen an increase in traffic, and we continue to
receive new feature requests and bug reports from the community via GitHub
issues. Discussions on Slack remain focused on what is remaining to finish the
4.8 release and we have been putting all efforts towards this goal.

Statistics:
- builds@lucenenet.apache.org had a big increase in traffic in the past
 quarter (59 emails compared to 0)
- dev@lucenenet.apache.org had a 37% increase in traffic in the past quarter
 (122 emails compared to 89)
- 8 commits in the past quarter (NOTE: Apache statistics shows zero)
- 7 code contributors in the past quarter (NOTE: Apache statistics shows zero)
- Last release: 2022-02-17 (4.8.0-beta00016)

18 Sep 2024 [Shad Storhaug / Rich] ¶

No report was submitted.

17 Jul 2024 [Shad Storhaug / Jeff] ¶

## Description:
The mission of Lucene.Net is the creation and maintenance of software related
to Search engine library targeted at .NET runtime users.

## Project Status:
Current project status: Ongoing
Issues for the board: None

## Membership Data:
Apache Lucene.Net was founded 2012-08-14 (12 years ago)
There are currently 16 committers and 14 PMC members in this project.
The Committer-to-PMC ratio is 8:7.

Community changes, past quarter:
- No new PMC members. Last addition was Ron Clabo on 2022-03-02.
- No new committers. Last addition was Ron Clabo on 2021-06-02.

## Project Activity:
Mostly the same as last report.
No new releases have been made since the previous release. We have been
focusing on remaining work to get the 4.8 release finished, including test
review, OpenNLP support, .NET 8 testing, and various other code correctness
and cleanup issues.

## Community Health:
Mostly the same as last report.
As mentioned in the prior status report, most community discussions have been
moving to GitHub rather than the mailing list. There have been some new issues
opened with good discussion around them. PRs have mostly been among PMC
members with a few from the community since the last report.

19 Jun 2024 [Shad Storhaug / Rich] ¶

No report was submitted.

20 Mar 2024 [Shad Storhaug / Christofer] ¶

## Description:
The mission of Lucene.Net is the creation and maintenance of a search engine
library and related software for .NET runtime users.

## Project Status:
Current project status: Ongoing
Issues for the board: None

## Membership Data:
Apache Lucene.Net was founded 2012-08-14 (11 years ago) There are currently 16
committers and 14 PMC members in this project. The Committer-to-PMC ratio is
8:7.

Community changes, past quarter:
- No new PMC members. Last addition was Ron Clabo on 2022-03-02.
- No new committers. Last addition was Ron Clabo on 2021-06-02.

Two PMC members were invited to join as ASF members since the last report:
Shad Storhaug (nightowl888) and Paul Irwin (paulirwin).

## Project Activity:
No new releases have been made since the previous release. We have been
focusing on remaining work to get the 4.8 release finished, including test
review, OpenNLP support, .NET 8 testing, and various other code correctness
and cleanup issues.

## Community Health:
As mentioned in the prior status report, most community discussions have been
moving to GitHub rather than the mailing list. There have been some new issues
opened with good discussion around them. PRs have mostly been among PMC
members with a few from the community since the last report.

17 Jan 2024 [Shad Storhaug / Sander] ¶

## Description:
The mission of Lucene.Net is the creation and maintenance of software related
to Search engine library targeted at .NET runtime users.

## Project Status:
Current project status: Ongoing
Issues for the board: None

## Membership Data:
Apache Lucene.Net was founded 2012-08-14 (11 years ago)
There are currently 16 committers and 14 PMC members in this project.
The Committer-to-PMC ratio is 8:7.

Community changes, past quarter:
- No new PMC members. Last addition was Ron Clabo on 2022-03-02.
- No new committers. Last addition was Ron Clabo on 2021-06-02.

## Project Activity:
No new releases have been made since the previous release.
There is a large influx of work waiting to be published but there
hasn't been enough time for a full review. There have been several
community led discussions on issues or PRs on GitHub for
current bugs and enhancements.

## Community Health:
There have been several new contributors to the GitHub repo, both in
terms of PRs submitted or issues raised. Mailing lists aren't used
very much, GitHub is really the main place where discussions happen.

20 Dec 2023 [Shad Storhaug / Craig] ¶

No report was submitted.

20 Sep 2023 [Shad Storhaug / Justin] ¶

## Description:
The mission of Lucene.Net is the creation and maintenance of software related
to Search engine library targeted at .NET runtime users.

## Project Status:
Current project status: Ongoing Issues for the board: There was a flurry of
activity over the previous quarter but over the summer it has been
quieter.

(The reports in reporter.apache.org don't show commit or PR or issue activity
correctly it seems)

## Membership Data:
Apache Lucene.Net was founded 2012-08-14 (11 years ago)
There are currently 16 committers and 14 PMC members in this project.
The Committer-to-PMC ratio is 8:7.

Community changes, past quarter:
- No new PMC members. Last addition was Ron Clabo on 2022-03-02.
- No new committers. Last addition was Ron Clabo on 2021-06-02.

## Project Activity:
There was a big push last quarter to get another beta 4.8.0 beta00017 shipped,
but that hasn't been completed quite yet. The community is definitely onboard
to try to get an RTM release shipped but another beta is first required due to
some breaking API changes.

## Community Health:
Quite a few PRs opened up by new community members which is great to see and
lots of conversations going on in GitHub tickets.

16 Aug 2023 [Shad Storhaug / Justin] ¶

No report was submitted.

@Justin: pursue a report for Lucene.Net

19 Jul 2023 [Shad Storhaug / Sander] ¶

No report was submitted.

21 Jun 2023 [Shad Storhaug / Sander] ¶

No report was submitted.

19 Apr 2023 [Shad Storhaug / Sharan] ¶

## Description:

Apache Lucene.NET is a port of the Lucene search engine library, written in C#
and targeted at .NET runtime users.

## Issues:

There are no Board-level issues at this time.

## Membership Data:

Apache Lucene.Net was founded 2012-08-15 (11 years ago)
There are currently 16 committers and 14 PMC members in this project.
The Committer-to-PMC ratio is 8:7.

Community changes, past quarter:
- No new PMC members. Last addition was Ron Clabo on 2022-03-03.
- No new committers. Last addition was Ron Clabo on 2021-06-03.

## Project Activity:

Although there have been no recent releases, work has been progressing on
getting the ICU4N project (our biggest dependency) stabilized. We managed to
get it repackaged and the resource data is distributed as a separate NuGet
transitive dependency that is enabled by default but can be disabled so
smaller resource distributions can be made by end users. Although the work had
been done some time ago, we finally got a release out with the changes.

Lucene.Net had a flurry of activity around October and a new contributor
helped setup SonarCloud to scan the code base for issues. Although this
created a lot of noise, it has also helped us to spot some important problems.
For example, it helped us find all of the virtual members called in
constructors across the whole project and a couple of PMC members have managed
to fix nearly all of them, which was an issue we realized we had for a while
but had no real way to find them.

We also set up a Slack channel so PMC members can collaborate on the work that
is happening.

There has been over 200 (squashed) commits since the last release and we are
now in the process of preparing for a new release. However, we expect it might
take a while to get the new release out. We are trying to close as many open
PRs and issues as possible and we have several performance optimizations and
API refactorings in the works that we are hoping to include, as well as some
updated dependencies (ICU4N, IKVM, and OpenNLP).

Some of those updates are:

1. .NET Core support on OpenNLP
2. A new ValuePriorityQueue ref struct that allows us to reduce heap
   allocations on several hot paths
3. Multiple solutions for the virtual member calls in constructors that was
   previously mentioned
4. Refactored CharArraySet and CharArrayMap that conform to .NET conventions
5. Refactoring to the OfflineSorter to make it more reliable and perform
   better
6. Optimization of array copy operations
7. Migration of some areas (mostly in Lucene.Net.Analysis.Common) to use
   Span<T> and stack allocations
8. A new PersianStemmer class that was contributed by a Lucene.Net user (which
   we pushed back to the Lucene project)

Recent releases:

    Apache-Lucene.Net-4.8.0-beta00016 was released on 2022-02-17.
    Apache-Lucene.Net-4.8.0-beta00015 was released on 2021-10-29.
    Apache-Lucene.Net-4.8.0-beta00014 was released on 2021-03-28.

## Community Health:

We have had several people contribute to our commit log and we occasionally
get a PR here and there. There have also been several issues opened, but these
have mostly been user questions rather than bugs. While we still get most of
our commits from one or 2 users, there has been an improvement in
participation than in previous reports.

The dev mailing list has nearly all been re-posted issues and PRs from GitHub.

dev@lucenenet.apache.org had a 56% decrease in traffic in the past quarter
(217 emails compared to 488) 43 commits in the past quarter (-64% change) 5
 code contributors in the past quarter (-54% change) 42 PRs opened on GitHub,
 past quarter (-33% change) 45 PRs closed on GitHub, past quarter (-21%
 change) 8 issues opened on GitHub, past quarter (-65% change) 2 issues closed
 on GitHub, past quarter (-91% change)

(previous quarter stats available directly via
 https://reporter.apache.org/wizard/statistics?lucenenet)

22 Mar 2023 [Shad Storhaug / Sharan] ¶

No report was submitted.

@Sharan: pursue a roll call for Lucene.Net

15 Feb 2023 [Shad Storhaug / Sharan] ¶

No report was submitted.

18 Jan 2023 [Shad Storhaug / Sam] ¶

No report was submitted.

21 Dec 2022 [Shad Storhaug / Sam] ¶

No report was submitted.

21 Sep 2022 [Shad Storhaug / Sander] ¶

## Description:
The mission of Lucene.Net is the creation and maintenance of software related
to Search engine library targeted at .NET runtime users.

## Issues:
There are no issues requiring board attention

## Membership Data:
Apache Lucene.Net was founded 2012-08-14 (10 years ago)
There are currently 17 committers and 15 PMC members in this project.
The Committer-to-PMC ratio is roughly 9:8.

Community changes, past quarter:
- No new PMC members. Last addition was Ron Clabo on 2022-03-02.
- No new committers. Last addition was Ron Clabo on 2021-06-02.

## Project Activity:

There has been limited project activity over the summer period. This is most
likely due to summer holidays and vacations being taken.

Recent releases:
Apache-Lucene.Net-4.8.0-beta00016 was released on 2022-02-17.
Apache-Lucene.Net-4.8.0-beta00015 was released on 2021-10-29.
Apache-Lucene.Net-4.8.0-beta00014 was released on 2021-03-28.

## Community Health:

There has been limited project activity over the summer period. This is most
likely due to summer holidays and vacations being taken.

17 Aug 2022 [Shad Storhaug / Sander] ¶

## Description:

The mission of Lucene.Net is the creation and maintenance of software related
to Search engine library targeted at .NET runtime users.

## Issues:

There are no issues requiring board attention

## Membership Data:

Apache Lucene.Net was founded 2012-08-14 (10 years ago)
There are currently 17 committers and 15 PMC members in this project.
The Committer-to-PMC ratio is roughly 9:8.

Community changes, past quarter:
- No new PMC members. Last addition was Ron Clabo on 2022-03-02.
- No new committers. Last addition was Ron Clabo on 2021-06-02.

## Project Activity:

Not a lot of project activity for the past quarter probably due to it being
summer time and folks taking vacations, etc...

## Community Health:

There has been a decline in code contributions which is probably due to it
being summer time and folks taking vacations, etc... That said, the latest
version released 6 months ago has almost 150,000 downloads on Nuget
https://www.nuget.org/packages/Lucene.Net so it is a very actively used
project.

20 Jul 2022 [Shad Storhaug / Christofer] ¶

No report was submitted.

@Sander: pursue a report for Lucene.Net

15 Jun 2022 [Shad Storhaug / Willem] ¶

No report was submitted.

16 Mar 2022 [Shad Storhaug / Roman] ¶

## Description:
Apache Lucene.NET is a port of the Lucene search engine library, written in C#
and targeted at .NET runtime users.

## Issues:

There are no Board-level issues at this time.

## Membership Data:
Apache Lucene.Net was founded 2012-08-15 (10 years ago)
There are currently 17 committers and 15 PMC members in this project.
The Committer-to-PMC ratio is roughly 9:8.

Community changes, past quarter:
- Ron Clabo was added to the PMC on 2022-03-03
- No new committers. Last addition was Ron Clabo on 2021-06-03.

## Project Activity:

We released 4.8.0-beta00016 this quarter, which was our biggest update since
4.8.0-beta00008. The release includes some key bug fixes and we have closed
some issues that have been on our radar for quite some time.

Thanks to the recent completion of the repeatable random test feature, we have
tracked down the cause of nearly all of the test failures, and are down to a
handful of tests where we have a fair understanding of the problem.

J2N, RandomizedTesting.Generators, and Morfologik.Stemming have all had a
first stable release, and Spatial4n has been consolidated back into a single
package. The only unstable dependency we have left is ICU4N. These
dependencies, as well as Lucene.NET have also added Source Link to allow
consumers to be able to step into our code directly.

We have also solved an issue with ConditionalWeakTable that fixes a
long-standing memory leak issue on .NET Framework with the WeakDictionary
workaround that was carried over from Lucene 3.0.3. WeakDictionary is no
longer part of the codebase.

The focus has now shifted to ICU4N to solve some of the embedded resource
package size distribution problems by switching to satellite assemblies and to
add a better getting started section to the website.

Recent releases: Apache-Lucene.Net-4.8.0-beta00016 was released on 2022-02-17.
Apache-Lucene.Net-4.8.0-beta00015 was released on 2021-10-29.
Apache-Lucene.Net-4.8.0-beta00014 was released on 2021-03-28.

## Community Health:

We continue to have a small number of contributors doing the bulk of the work,
yet a few that are generous enough to submit small fixes (mostly with the API
docs) and occasional questions/bug reports.

Ron Clabo was also promoted to PMC this quarter.

- dev@lucenenet.apache.org had a 169% increase in traffic in the past quarter
(272 emails compared to 101)
- user@lucenenet.apache.org had a 100% decrease in
traffic in the past quarter (0 emails compared to 6)
- 131 commits in the past quarter (-9% change)
- 5
code contributors in the past quarter (25% increase)
- 48 PRs opened on GitHub,
past quarter (6% increase)
- 50 PRs closed on GitHub, past quarter (11%
increase)
- 12 issues opened on GitHub, past quarter (9% increase)
- 9 issues
closed on GitHub, past quarter (-62% change)

(previous quarter stats available directly via
https://reporter.apache.org/wizard/statistics?lucenenet)

15 Dec 2021 [Shad Storhaug / Sam] ¶

## Description:

Apache Lucene.NET is a port of the Lucene search engine library, written in C#
and targeted at .NET runtime users.

## Issues:

There are no Board-level issues at this time.

## Membership Data:

Apache Lucene.Net was founded 2012-08-15 (9 years ago)
There are currently 17 committers and 14 PMC members in this project.
The Committer-to-PMC ratio is roughly 9:7.

Community changes, past quarter:
- No new PMC members. Last addition was Laimonas Simutis on 2020-09-08.
- No new committers. Last addition was Ron Clabo on 2021-06-03.

## Project Activity:

We are continuing to track down bugs and/or mistranslations from Java, and are
uncovering new issues every month. We fixed the randomized seed functionality
in the test framework so we can now repeat failures. Although the feature is
still experimental, this has resulted in a much quicker resolution time for
bugs.

The primary development focus has been on migrating to the new J2N APIs that
were introduced earlier this year and to track down issues related to test
failures and hangs/crashes in the test environment.

Recent releases:

 Apache-Lucene.Net-4.8.0-beta00015 was released on 2021-10-29.
 Apache-Lucene.Net-4.8.0-beta00014 was released on 2021-03-28.
 Apache-Lucene.Net-4.8.0-beta00013 was released on 2020-11-16.

## Community Health:

We have a large increase in commit and PR activity this quarter, primarily in
preparation for our 4.8.0-beta00015 release. We have seen a drop in bug
reports for 4.8.0, many of the issues that are being opened by the community
are inquiries and not actual bug reports. We have also completed work on some
old issues that were first reported as early as 2017.

4 code contributors in the past quarter (no change) GitHub PR activity: 42 PRs
opened on GitHub, past quarter (82% increase) 44 PRs closed on GitHub, past
quarter (109% increase)

GitHub issues: 10 issues opened on GitHub, past quarter (42% increase) 20
issues closed on GitHub, past quarter (566% increase)

(previous quarter stats available directly via
https://reporter.apache.org/wizard/statistics?lucenenet#githubissues)

15 Sep 2021 [Shad Storhaug / Sander] ¶

## Description:

Apache Lucene.NET is a port of the Lucene search engine library, written in C#
and targeted at .NET runtime users.

## Issues:

There are no Board-level issues at this time.

We are still trying to work with INFRA to resolve a CI/CD issue we are having
with GitHub action https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/INFRA-21453
which is an ongoing task to allow us to automate the building and deployment
of both the Lucene.Net website but also it's documentation site.

## Membership Data:

Apache Lucene.Net was founded 2012-08-14 (9 years ago)
There are currently 17 committers and 14 PMC members in this project.
The Committer-to-PMC ratio is roughly 9:7.

Community changes, past quarter:
- No community committer or PMC changes in the last quarter.
- Ron Clabo was added as committer on 2021-06-02.

## Project Activity:

We are continuing to track down bugs and/or mistranslations from Java, and are
uncovering new issues every month. There has been an overall effort to
normalize exception handling, fix system timing issues, and to fix many
inefficiencies due to Java APIs that were missing in .NET, that have recently
been added to J2N.

J2N has been the primary focus of the Lucene.NET project this quarter.

Recent releases: Apache-Lucene.Net-4.8.0-beta00014 was released on 2021-03-28.
Apache-Lucene.Net-4.8.0-beta00013 was released on 2020-11-16.
Apache-Lucene.Net-4.8.0-beta00012 was released on 2020-09-19.

If all goes to plan there will be further beta releases shipped in the next
quarter and then hopefully an RC and final release of 4.8.

## Community Health:

Last quarter we welcomed our newest committer, Ron Clabo on 2021-06-02. He has
been helping a lot to close GitHub issues, answer incoming questions, and
promote Lucene.NET.

We have seen a slow down of incoming bug reports and have closed some issues
that have been open for a long time, which is hopefully a good sign that we
are nearing stability.


Since 2021-03-17 there has been 53 PRs created to the project of which 50 have
been closed or merged.

Since 2021-03-17 there has been 21 bugs reported to the project of which 10
have been fixed or closed.

(previous quarter stats available directly via
 https://reporter.apache.org/wizard/statistics?lucenenet#githubissues)

18 Aug 2021 [Shad Storhaug / Bertrand] ¶

No report was submitted.

@Sander: pursue a report for Lucene.Net

21 Jul 2021 [Shad Storhaug / Bertrand] ¶

No report was submitted.

16 Jun 2021 [Shad Storhaug / Roy] ¶

No report was submitted.

17 Mar 2021 [Shad Storhaug / Craig] ¶

## Description:
Apache Lucene.NET is a port of the Lucene search engine library, written in C#
and targeted at .NET runtime users.

## Issues:
There are no Board-level issues at this time.

## Membership Data:
Apache Lucene.NET was founded 2012-08-15 (9 years ago)
There are currently 16 committers and 14 PMC members in this project.
The Committer-to-PMC ratio is 8:7.

Community changes, past quarter:
- No new PMC members. Last addition was Laimonas Simutis on 2020-09-08.
- No new committers. Last addition was Jens Melgaard on 2020-10-20.

## Project Activity:
Progress:
- Several user-reported bug fixes
- 25 PRs were submitted
- We are continuing to expand testing, adding build hang detection, and
 Xamarin.Android tests to J2N
- Work has begun on tracking down concurrency contention problems
- Work has begun on reviewing tests for incomplete/partially implemented
 tests, API usability problems, and performance issues
- We are making preparations for the release of Lucene.NET 4.8.0-beta00014

We have also been steadily improving performance, refactoring APIs to be more
.NET-like than Java-like, and expanding testing.

Recent releases:
- Apache-Lucene.Net-4.8.0-beta00013 was released on 2020-11-16.
- Apache-Lucene.Net-4.8.0-beta00012 was released on 2020-09-19.
- Apache-Lucene.Net-4.8.0-beta00011 was released on 2020-07-24.

Average Daily Downloads of Lucene.NET from NuGet.org (all versions): 2,680

## Community Health:
Since our move to GitHub Issues, we are now getting bug reports that have been
long underreported. This new collaboration channel with end users is helping
us zero in on bugs, and is also helping to drive some PR activity from
contributors.

This quarter has seen a decrease in activity on Lucene.NET due to focus on the
Xamarin.Android tests, which were added to the smaller J2N dependency project
first before we scale up the approach for use in ICU4N and Lucnene.NET.

dev@lucenenet.apache.org had a 30% decrease in traffic in the past quarter
(287 emails compared to 405) user@lucenenet.apache.org had a 75% increase in
traffic in the past quarter (7 emails compared to 4) 77 commits in the past
quarter (-63% decrease) 5 code contributors in the past quarter (-37%
decrease) 25 PRs opened on GitHub, past quarter (-35% decrease) 25 PRs closed
on GitHub, past quarter (-32% decrease) 18 issues opened on GitHub, past
quarter (-14% decrease) 15 issues closed on GitHub, past quarter (-6%
decrease)

16 Dec 2020 [Shad Storhaug / Craig] ¶

## Description:
Apache Lucene.NET is a port of the Lucene search engine library, written in C#
and targeted at .NET runtime users.

## Issues:
There are no Board-level issues at this time.

## Membership Data:
Apache Lucene.NET was founded 2012-08-15 (8 years ago)
There are currently 16 committers and 14 PMC members in this project.
The Committer-to-PMC ratio is 8:7.
PMC Chair rotated 2018-06-20 to Shad Storhaug (nightowl888)

Community changes, past quarter:
- No new PMC members. Last addition was Laimonas Simutis on 2020-09-08.
- Jens Melgaard was added as committer on 2020-10-20

## Project Activity:

Progress:
- Several user-reported bug fixes
- 44 PRs were submitted including some new website features and performance
 improvements to Lucene.NET
- We set up a nightly build
- We are continuing to expand testing adding x86 and .NET 5.0 targets
- We set up GitHub Actions to automatically run tests when PRs are submitted

We have also been steadily improving performance, refactoring APIs to be more
.NET-like than Java-like, and expanding testing.

Recent releases:
- Apache-Lucene.Net-4.8.0-beta00013 was released on 2020-11-16.
- Apache-Lucene.Net-4.8.0-beta00012 was released on 2020-09-19.
- Apache-Lucene.Net-4.8.0-beta00011 was released on 2020-07-24.

## Community Health:

Since our move to GitHub Issues, we are now getting bug reports that have been
long underreported. This new collaboration channel with end users is helping
us zero in on bugs, and is also helping to drive some PR activity from
contributors. There was some additional PR activity through our participation
in Hacktoberfest this quarter.

However, we are seeing less activity on the mailing lists due to the fact
collaborators generally contact us directly through GitHub Issues.

- dev@lucenenet.apache.org had a 86% increase in traffic in the past quarter
 (411 emails compared to 220)
- user@lucenenet.apache.org had a 64% decrease in traffic in the past quarter
 (4 emails compared to 11)
- 258 commits in the past quarter (-18% decrease)
- 8 code contributors in the past quarter (60% increase)
- 44 PRs opened on GitHub, past quarter (83% increase)
- 45 PRs closed on GitHub, past quarter (104% increase)
- 21 issues opened on GitHub, past quarter (23% increase)
- 18 issues closed on GitHub, past quarter (20% increase)

16 Sep 2020 [Shad Storhaug / Craig] ¶

Apache Lucene.NET is a port of the Lucene search engine library, written in C#
and targeted at .NET runtime users.

== Summary ==

Lucene.NET has had a pretty active quarter:

• Several bug fixes
• Some missing features were added to the project
• The test framework has had some major bottlenecks removed
• We had 3 beta releases (00009, 00010, 00011)
• We also had releases of our 2 main dependencies, J2N and ICU4N
• We set up performance benchmarks to see how different releases compare

Since our move to GitHub Issues, we are now getting bug reports that have been
long underreported. This new collaboration channel with end users is helping
us zero in on bugs, and is also helping to drive some PR activity from
contributors. We have also been steadily improving performance and refactoring
APIs to be more .NET-like than Java-like.

In addition, 2 new PMC members were added this quarter.

== Board-Level Issues ==

There are no Board-level issues at this time.

== Releases ==

* Last Release 3.0.3 - Oct 2012
* Working toward 4.8.0 - Currently beta00011, released 2020-07-24

== People ==

* Last PMC Member added Sept 2020, Laimonas Simutis (laimis)
* Last committer added April 2020, Michael Condillac (xmichaelc78x)
* PMC Chair rotated 20 June 2018 to Shad Storhaug (nightowl888)

17 Jun 2020 [Shad Storhaug / Sander] ¶

Apache Lucene.Net is a port of the Lucene search engine library, written in C#
and targeted at .NET runtime users.


== Summary ==

This quarter has seen some progress with moving both the project and the
community forward:

 * We held a vote to move from JIRA to GitHub issues, which passed unanimously
 * We have migrated all of the open issues from JIRA to GitHub and set up new
   milestones
 * Lucene.NET 4.8.0 is now "feature complete"
 * The release procedure has been fully documented, and Shannon Deminick
   released 4.8.0-beta00008 as proof of concept
 * The API documentation has now been set up so each release has its own
   documentation version
 * We added a new PMC member and a new committer, who are both actively
   engaged in the project
 * The CI process has been streamlined a bit so a build/test cycle is about 5
   minutes faster
 * The Lucene.Net NuGet package is now being downloaded more than 2000 times
   daily (across all versions)

Lucene.NET 4.8.0-beta00008 was released this quarter. Since we have directed
our GitHub Issues to the mailing list, it has been more active than usual. A
few bug reports and user issues have also been reported, and several pull
requests have been submitted.


== Remaining Work on 4.8.0 ==

We updated the itemized list of remaining issues for both Lucene.NET and ICU4N
and have arrived at the following estimates to production release:

Lucene.NET 4.8.0

* Hours Completed: ~4200
* Hours Remaining: ~400

ICU4N 60.x

* Hours Completed:  ~550
* Hours Remaining: ~250 (assuming we don't port any more of it)
* Hours Remaining: ~715 (ported to feature completion)

Lucene.NET 8.x Upgrade

* Hours Completed: 0
* Hours Remaining: ~1700

The primary items left to complete for the 4.8.0 release are identifying and
addressing performance issues, reviews of tests and usage of IDisposable, the
API docs, and ICU4N.


== Releases ==

* Last Release 3.0.3 - Oct 2012

* Working toward 4.8.0 - Currently beta0008, released 2020-05-05



== People ==

* Last PMC Member added 12 April 2020, Shannon Deminick (shazwazza)

* Last committer added 27 April 2020, Michael Condillac (xmichaelc78x)

* PMC Chair rotated 20 June 2018 to Shad Storhaug (nightowl888)

18 Mar 2020 [Shad Storhaug / Craig] ¶

Apache Lucene.Net is a port of the Lucene search engine library, written in C#
and targeted at .NET runtime users.



== Summary ==

This quarter has seen some progress, mostly with addressing performance
issues:

 * NIOFSDirectory was modified to move buffered data in batches, rather than
   one byte at a time.
 * FSDirectory.FSIndexOutput was modified so it doesn't utilize the buffer in
   BufferedIndexOutput, since FileStream already has its own buffer.
 * TokenStream had Reflection code that ran at runtime, which has been
   replaced with a dotnet Code Analyzer and Fix which runs at design time.
 * Replaced Lucene's WeakIdentityMap with .NET's ConditionalWeakTable.
 * The scaffolding known as the Lucene.Net.Support namespace has been either
   moved to the J2N library or marked internal. Several types were optimized
   and consolidated in the process.
 * The caches in ICU4N were replaced with the cache from
   Microsoft.Extensions.Caching.Memory.
 * The API documentation has been cleaned up a lot and work is being done to
   set it up so each release has its own version.

Lucene.NET 4.8.0-beta00007 was released this quarter. A few bugs were reported
on JIRA, but the mailing lists have been mostly inactive.


== Remaining Work on 4.8.0 ==

We updated the itemized list of remaining issues for both Lucene.NET and ICU4N
and have arrived at the following estimates to production release:

Lucene.NET 4.8.0

* Hours Completed: ~4000
* Hours Remaining: ~450

ICU4N 60.x

* Hours Completed:  ~540
* Hours Remaining: ~260 (assuming we don't port any more of it)
* Hours Remaining: ~725 (ported to feature completion)

Lucene.NET 8.x Upgrade

* Hours Completed: 0
* Hours Remaining: ~1700

The primary items left to complete for the 4.8.0 release are identifying and
addressing performance issues, reviews of tests and usage of IDisposable, the
API docs, and ICU4N.


== Releases ==



* Last Release 3.0.3 - Oct 2012

* Working toward 4.8.0 - Currently beta0007, released 2019-12-29



== People ==



* Last PMC Member added May 2017, Shad Storhaug (nightowl888)

* Last committer added Oct 2019, Shannon Deminick (shazwazza)

* PMC Chair rotated 20 June 2018 to Shad Storhaug (nightowl888)

18 Dec 2019 [Shad Storhaug / Ted] ¶

Apache Lucene.Net is a port of the Lucene search engine library, written in C#
and targeted at .NET runtime users.

== Summary ==

There has been some progress in the last couple of months:

The broken NativeFSLock has been fixed for non-Windows platforms. The
remaining Lucene 4.8.0 modules, Lucene.Net.Analysis.OpenNLP (the Lucene 8.3
replacement for Lucene.Net.Analysis.UIMA) and Lucene.Net.Analysis.Mofologik
and its dependencies have been ported. ICU4N has had some API refactoring to
be more .NET-like and the API documentation comments have been (mostly)
completed. ICU4N has also had 2 releases on NuGet. A new project named J2N was
started to host the JDK-like types that were haphazardly lumped into the
“Support” namespace in both Lucene.NET and ICU4N. Full API documentation and
tests are being added, bugs fixed, as well as optimizations and finished
implementations. J2N has had 2 alpha releases to date. Now that the porting
work is complete, the focus has shifted to improving performance. Some
bottlenecks and potential bottlenecks have been identified, a few of which
have already been addressed. The API doc website (and the automation to
generate it) is continuing to be improved (thanks @Shannon Deminick and @Steve
Temple). It has been determined that NUnit has adequate repeatability for end
users to be able to debug random tests without having to port the
RandomizedTesting runner (which was previously our biggest remaining task).

Additionally, Aaron Powell blogged about Lucene.NET recently
(https://dev.to/dotnet/implementing-search-in-blazor-webassembly-with-lucene-net-4mpi)
and it was re-tweeted by Jon Galloway from Microsoft this week. Thanks Aaron
and Jon!

The mailing lists have been pretty quiet, and no new issues have been opened
recently. However, we are working on getting another beta release out soon.

== Remaining Work on 4.8.0 ==

We updated the itemized list of remaining issues for both Lucene.NET and ICU4N
and have arrived at the following estimates to production release:

Lucene.NET 4.8.0

Hours Completed: ~3850 Hours Remaining: ~600

ICU4N 60.x

Hours Completed:  ~500 Hours Remaining: ~300 (assuming we don’t port any more
of it) Hours Remaining: ~750 (ported to feature completion)

Lucene.NET 8.x Upgrade

Hours Completed: 0 Hours Remaining: ~1700

The primary items left to complete for the 4.8.0 release are migrating the
remaining types from Support to J2N (with improved implementations, tests, and
benchmarks), the API docs, and ICU4N.

== Releases ==

* Last Release 3.0.3 - Oct 2012
* Working toward 4.8.0 - Currently beta0006, released 2019-08-13

== People ==

* Last PMC Member added May 2017, Shad Storhaug (nightowl888)
* Last committer added Oct 2019, Shannon Deminick (shazwazza)
* PMC Chair rotated 20 June 2018 to Shad Storhaug (nightowl888)

== Statistics ==

As of 2019.12.13 Metric are as follows (followed by metric from 2019.10.10 for
comparison):

Release 3.0.3
* Lucene.Net 3.0.3: 3,095,953 (up from 2,737,979)
* Lucene.Net.Contrib 3.0.3: 671,201 (up from 601,751)
* Lucene.Net Contrib Spatial: 37,415 (up from 34,273)
* Lucene.Net Contrib Spatial.NTS: 7,177 (up from 6,986)

Beta 4.8.0-beta00005 (Published 10/24/2017)
* Lucene.Net: 206,059 (up from 177,945 )
* Lucene.Net.Analysis.Common: 189,268 (up from 164,168 )
* Lucene.Net.Analysis.Kuromoji: 5,911 (up from 5,070 )
* Lucene.Net.Analysis.Phonetic: 3,104 (up from 2,506)
* Lucene.Net.Analysis.SmartCn: 614  (up from 583)
* Lucene.Net.Analysis.Stempel: 1,221 (up from 1,141)
* Lucene.Net.Benchmark: 530 (up from 523)
* Lucene.Net.Classification: 1,090 (up from 1,065)
* Lucene.Net.Codecs: 3,381 (up from 3,125)
* Lucene.Net.Expressions: 6,441 (up from 6,065)
* Lucene.Net.Facet: 10,065 (up from 8,794)
* Lucene.Net.Grouping: 11,905 (up from 10,059)
* Lucene.Net.Highlighter: 6,012 (up from 5,251)
* Lucene.Net.ICU: 974  (up from 923)
* Lucene.Net.Join: 10,328 (up from 9,055)
* Lucene.Net.Memory: 11,180 (up from 9,171)
* Lucene.Net.Misc: 7,342 (up from 6,507)
* Lucene.Net.Queries: 167,030 (up from 144,937)
* Lucene.Net.QueryParser: 159,701 (up from 138,434)
* Lucene.Net.Replicator: 567 (up from 560)
* Lucene.Net.Sandbox: 165,227 (up from 144,268)
* Lucene.Net.Spatial: 6,363 (up from 5,553)
* Lucene.Net.Suggest: 6,316 (up from 5,604)

Beta 4.8.0-beta00006 (Published 08/13/2019)
* Lucene.Net: 21,486 (up from 4,989)
* Lucene.Net.Analysis.Common: 19,556 (up from 4,351)
* Lucene.Net.Analysis.Kuromoji: 147 (up from 93)
* Lucene.Net.Analysis.Phonetic: 129 (up from 72)
* Lucene.Net.Analysis.SmartCn: 268 (up from 138)
* Lucene.Net.Analysis.Stempel: 128 (up from 62)
* Lucene.Net.Benchmark: 57 (up from 47)
* Lucene.Net.Classification: 157 (up from 91)
* Lucene.Net.Codecs: 145 (up from 93)
* Lucene.Net.Expressions: 121 (up from 65)
* Lucene.Net.Facet: 687 (up from 125)
* Lucene.Net.Grouping: 750 (up from 141)
* Lucene.Net.Highlighter: 812 (up from 240)
* Lucene.Net.ICU: 269 (up from 125)
* Lucene.Net.Join: 732 (up from 140)
* Lucene.Net.Memory: 1,252 (up from 259)
* Lucene.Net.Misc: 585 (up from 139)
* Lucene.Net.Queries: 17,847 (up from 4,024)
* Lucene.Net.QueryParser: 17,674 (up from 3,989)
* Lucene.Net.Replicator: 62 (up from 53)
* Lucene.Net.Sandbox: 17,657 (up from 3,992)
* Lucene.Net.Spatial: 174 (up from 98)
* Lucene.Net.Suggest: 438 (up from 130)
* lucene-cli: 115 (up from 74)

16 Oct 2019 [Shad Storhaug / Roman] ¶

Apache Lucene.Net is a port of the Lucene search engine library, written in C#
and targeted at .NET runtime users.

== Summary ==

While the project had stalled in the first half of 2019, there has been some
progress in the last quarter:


 *   A new YAML CI configuration was setup on Azure DevOps, which was
     designed so anyone can build and test on their own Azure DevOps account
 *   The test framework APIs were cleaned up and several bugs addressed
 *   Progress is being made on ICU4N, our biggest dependent project
 *   The API doc website is coming along

We also added Shannon Deminick as a new committer on October 9, 2019, which is
our first since September 2016.

There has been very little activity on the user and dev lists in the past
couple of months, and there hasn't been any new bug reports in some time.

We have itemized the remaining issues for both Lucene.NET and ICU4N and have
arrived at the following estimates to production release:

Lucene.NET 4.8.0

Hours Completed: ~3700 Hours Remaining: ~750

ICU4N 60.x

Hours Completed:  ~350 Hours Remaining: ~450 (assuming we don't port any more
of it) Hours Remaining: ~900 (ported to feature completion)

Lucene.NET 8.x Upgrade

Hours Completed: 0 Hours Remaining: ~1700

The primary items left to complete for the 4.8.0 release are the
RandomizedTesting package that the test framework depends on, the API docs,
and ICU4N.


== Releases ==



* Last Release 3.0.3 - Oct 2012

* Working toward 4.8.0 - Currently beta0006, released 2019-08-13



== People ==



* Last PMC Member added May 2017, Shad Storhaug (nightowl888)

* Last committer added Oct 2019, Shannon Deminick (shazwazza)

* PMC Chair rotated 20 June 2018 to Shad Storhaug (nightowl888)



== Statistics ==



As of 2019.10.10 Metric are as follows (followed by metric from 2019.08.19 for
comparison):



Release 3.0.3

* Lucene.Net 3.0.3: 2,737,979  (up from 2,507,308)

* Lucene.Net.Contrib 3.0.3: 601,751  (up from 554,455)

* Lucene.Net Contrib Spatial: 34,273  (up from 32,467)

* Lucene.Net Contrib Spatial.NTS: 6,986  (up from 6,829)



Beta 4.8.0-beta00005 (Published 10/24/2017)

* Lucene.Net: 177,945  (up from 155,313)

* Lucene.Net.Analysis.Common: 164,168  (up from 142,723)

* Lucene.Net.Analysis.Kuromoji: 5,070  (up from 4,484)

* Lucene.Net.Analysis.Phonetic: 2,506  (up from 1,962)

* Lucene.Net.Analysis.SmartCn: 583  (up from 541)

* Lucene.Net.Analysis.Stempel: 1,141  (up from 1,090)

* Lucene.Net.Benchmark: 523  (up from 507)

* Lucene.Net.Classification: 1,065  (up from 1,030)

* Lucene.Net.Codecs: 3,125  (up from 2,835)

* Lucene.Net.Expressions: 6,065  (up from 5,577)

* Lucene.Net.Facet: 8,794  (up from 7,369)

* Lucene.Net.Grouping: 10,059  (up from 8,311)

* Lucene.Net.Highlighter: 5,251  (up from 4,695)

* Lucene.Net.ICU: 923  (up from 868)

* Lucene.Net.Join: 9,055  (up from 7,624)

* Lucene.Net.Memory: 9,171  (up from 8,121)

* Lucene.Net.Misc: 6,507  (up from 6,035)

* Lucene.Net.Queries: 144,937  (up from 125,839)

* Lucene.Net.QueryParser: 138,434  (up from 119,881)

* Lucene.Net.Replicator: 560  (up from 549)

* Lucene.Net.Sandbox: 144,268  (up from 125,906)

* Lucene.Net.Spatial: 5,553  (up from 4,615)

* Lucene.Net.Suggest: 5,604  (up from 5,185)



Beta 4.8.0-beta00006 (Published 08/13/2019)

* Lucene.Net: 4,989  (up from 133)

* Lucene.Net.Analysis.Common: 4,351  (up from 98)

* Lucene.Net.Analysis.Kuromoji: 93  (up from 50)

* Lucene.Net.Analysis.Phonetic: 72  (up from 42)

* Lucene.Net.Analysis.SmartCn: 138  (up from 42)

* Lucene.Net.Analysis.Stempel: 62  (up from 44)

* Lucene.Net.Benchmark: 47  (up from 36)

* Lucene.Net.Classification: 91  (up from 41)

* Lucene.Net.Codecs: 93  (up from 43)

* Lucene.Net.Expressions: 65  (up from 41)

* Lucene.Net.Facet: 125  (up from 44)

* Lucene.Net.Grouping: 141  (up from 45)

* Lucene.Net.Highlighter: 240  (up from 51)

* Lucene.Net.ICU: 125  (up from 41)

* Lucene.Net.Join: 140  (up from 46)

* Lucene.Net.Memory: 259  (up from 57)

* Lucene.Net.Misc: 139  (up from 49)

* Lucene.Net.Queries: 4,024  (up from 90)

* Lucene.Net.QueryParser: 3,989  (up from 90)

* Lucene.Net.Replicator: 53  (up from 40)

* Lucene.Net.Sandbox: 3,992  (up from 118)

* Lucene.Net.Spatial: 98  (up from 42)

* Lucene.Net.Suggest: 130  (up from 44)

* lucene-cli: 74  (up from 49)

18 Sep 2019 [Shad Storhaug / Rich] ¶

No report was submitted.

@Rich: pursue a report for Lucene.Net

21 Aug 2019 [Shad Storhaug / Joan] ¶

Apache Lucene.Net is a port of the Lucene search engine library, written in C#
and targeted at .NET runtime users.

== Summary ==

We have been stalled in the first half of 2019 with limited progress:

* New Website went live: http://lucenenet.apache.org/
* The team was looking at our CI options, the consensus was to try to get on
 Azure DevOps

However, over the past few months the community has submitted pull requests to
patch some important stability and thread safety bugs. We also got enough of
ICU4J ported to support Lucene.Net, which has been an issue that has been
blocking progress for some time. The previous dependency (icu-dotnet) was both
extremely large and unstable, and was causing lots of issues with getting the
tests to run reliably.

We have set up CI on Azure DevOps, which has also addressed another
long-standing issue: the amount of time it takes to increment and test.
Parallel testing was setup to reduce the testing time from around 1 hour and
15 minutes to around 45 minutes. The new setup also allows us to test on Linux
and macOS for the first time.

We released 4.8.0-beta00006 this month with the patches the community provided
as well as some bugs that were newly discovered with the new CI process. The
Lucene.Net.ICU module is now feature-complete. There was a command line tool
named lucene-cli included in the binary distribution of beta00005 but this
time around it has been packaged up as a dotnet tool on NuGet so it can be
installed directly from the command line.

We are currently working on finishing up the test framework module. It was
previously ported, but the fact that it was meant to be an end-user module was
overlooked, so there are several issues to address to ready it for wide use.
We are also working on more automation for generating API documentation to
keep it in sync with releases.

== Releases ==

* Last Release 3.0.3 - Oct 2012
* Working toward 4.8.0 - Currently beta0006, released 2019-08-13

== People ==

* Last PMC Member added May 2017, Shad Storhaug (nightowl888)
* Last committer added Sept 2016, Shad Storhaug (nightowl888)
* PMC Chair rotated 20 June 2018 to Shad Storhaug (nightowl888)

== Statistics ==

As of 2019.08.19 Metric are as follows:

Release 3.0.3
* Lucene.Net 3.0.3: 2,507,308
* Lucene.Net.Contrib 3.0.3: 554,455
* Lucene.Net Contrib Spatial: 32,467
* Lucene.Net Contrib Spatial.NTS: 6,829

Beta 4.8.0-beta00005 (Published 10/24/2017)
* Lucene.Net: 155,313
* Lucene.Net.Analysis.Common: 142,723
* Lucene.Net.Analysis.Kuromoji: 4,484
* Lucene.Net.Analysis.Phonetic: 1,962
* Lucene.Net.Analysis.SmartCn: 541
* Lucene.Net.Analysis.Stempel: 1,090
* Lucene.Net.Benchmark: 507
* Lucene.Net.Classification: 1,030
* Lucene.Net.Codecs: 2,835
* Lucene.Net.Expressions: 5,577
* Lucene.Net.Facet: 7,369
* Lucene.Net.Grouping: 8,311
* Lucene.Net.Highlighter: 4,695
* Lucene.Net.ICU: 868
* Lucene.Net.Join: 7,624
* Lucene.Net.Memory: 8,121
* Lucene.Net.Misc: 6,035
* Lucene.Net.Queries: 125,839
* Lucene.Net.QueryParser: 119,881
* Lucene.Net.Replicator: 549
* Lucene.Net.Sandbox: 125,906
* Lucene.Net.Spatial: 4,615
* Lucene.Net.Suggest: 5,185

Beta 4.8.0-beta00006 (Published 08/13/2019)
* Lucene.Net: 133
* Lucene.Net.Analysis.Common: 98
* Lucene.Net.Analysis.Kuromoji: 50
* Lucene.Net.Analysis.Phonetic: 42
* Lucene.Net.Analysis.SmartCn: 42
* Lucene.Net.Analysis.Stempel: 44
* Lucene.Net.Benchmark: 36
* Lucene.Net.Classification: 41
* Lucene.Net.Codecs: 43
* Lucene.Net.Expressions: 41
* Lucene.Net.Facet: 44
* Lucene.Net.Grouping: 45
* Lucene.Net.Highlighter: 51
* Lucene.Net.ICU: 41
* Lucene.Net.Join: 46
* Lucene.Net.Memory: 57
* Lucene.Net.Misc: 49
* Lucene.Net.Queries: 90
* Lucene.Net.QueryParser: 90
* Lucene.Net.Replicator: 40
* Lucene.Net.Sandbox: 118
* Lucene.Net.Spatial: 42
* Lucene.Net.Suggest: 44
* lucene-cli: 49

19 Jun 2019 [Shad Storhaug / Shane] ¶

No report was submitted.

@Shane: pursue a report for Lucene.Net

20 Mar 2019 [Shad Storhaug / Ted] ¶

Apache Lucene.Net is a port of the Lucene search engine library, written in C#
and targeted at .NET runtime users.

== Summary ==

We had stalled in the second half of 2018, with several board members
attempting to reach out to figure out status, and several board reports
missing, there were several calls and questions regarding moving to the attic.

In January 2019 an email to the dev mailing list generated activity, after the
private pmc mailing list seemed to have gone radio silent. There has been
vocal support (reported last month), and we have continued to make some
progress:

* New Website went live: http://lucenenet.apache.org/
* The team is re-looking at our CI options (previously TeamCity, may continue
 with that)
* We're looking at stabiling the current 4.8.0-beta0005 and cutting it as a
 release, and then moving on.

Issues:
* PMC Still seems a little stalled as there isn't much activity at that level
* As previously mentioned we needed a PMC roll call, that was not yet done.

== Releases ==

* Last Release 3.0.3 - Oct 2012
* Working toward 4.8.0 - Currently beta0005, which has been out for some time

== People ==

* Last PMC Member Added, Paul Irwin, October 2013
* Last committer added Sept 2016, Shad Storhaug (nightowl888)
* PMC Chair rotated 20 June 2018 to Shad Storhaug (nightowl888)

== Statistics ==

As of 2019.02.01 Metric are as follows:

Release 3.0.3
* Lucene.Net 3.0.3: 1,894,662 (Feb 2019:  1,757,023)
* Lucene.Net.Contrib 3.0.3: 403,432 (Feb 2019:  370229)
* Lucene.Net Contrib Spatial: 27,623 (Feb 2019:  26483)
* Lucene.Net Contrib Spatial.NTS: 5,836 (Feb 2019: 5697)

Beta 4.8.0-beta00005 (Published 10/24/2017)
* Lucene.Net: 83132
* Lucene.Net.Analysis.Common: 74917
* Lucene.Net.Analysis.Kuromoji: 2939
* Lucene.Net.Analysis.Phonetic: 757
* Lucene.Net.Analysis.SmartCn: 268
* Lucene.Net.Analysis.Stempel: 561
* Lucene.Net.Benchmark: 201
* Lucene.Net.Classification: 490
* Lucene.Net.Codecs: 1502
* Lucene.Net.Expressions: 3338
* Lucene.Net.Facet: 3768
* Lucene.Net.Grouping: 4388
* Lucene.Net.Highlighter: 2545
* Lucene.Net.ICU: 373
* Lucene.Net.Join: 3980
* Lucene.Net.Memory: 3865
* Lucene.Net.Misc: 3281
* Lucene.Net.Queries: 64592
* Lucene.Net.QueryParser: 60334
* Lucene.Net.Replicator: 212
* Lucene.Net.Sandbox: 66705
* Lucene.Net.Spatial: 1620
* Lucene.Net.Suggest: 2654

20 Feb 2019 [Shad Storhaug / Phil] ¶

Apache Lucene.Net is a port of the Lucene search engine library, written in C#
and targeted at .NET runtime users.

== Summary ==

We had stalled in the second half of 2018, with several board members
attempting to reach out to figure out status, and several board reports
missing, there were several calls and questions regarding moving to the attic.

It seems in early January an email to the dev mailing list generated activity,
after the private pmc mailing list seemed to have gone radio silent. There has
been vocal support on the dev@ mailing list and a flurry of activity.

* Several members have stepped up to work on cleaning up JIRA
 - 1 JIRA ticket fixed
 - 1 PR opened to improve merge stability
* We have a new website design/repo in the works
 - https://lucenenetsite.azurewebsites.net/
 - https://github.com/apache/lucenenet/pull/206
* We're working on bringing our TeamCity CI Servers back online and reporting
* We've a community member at MSFT voice their support for the general
  stability of 4.8.0-beta0005 in their projects, and is investingating their
  ability to contribute

We need to run a roll call at the PMC to see who is still around and possibly
add new members and new committers.

== Releases ==

* Last Release 3.0.3 - Oct 2012
* Working toward 4.8.0 - Currently beta0005, which has been out for some time

== Board Questions ==

"Missing Reports" (I'm not sure anyone explicitly asked this). As mentioned
 above, my time has been extremely limited, and we are looking to rotate our
 VP, but as of yet have had no takers. Stefan Bodewig suggests we might need
 to look towards the attic - which I believe would be unfortunate, but may be
 the reality.

== People ==

* Last PMC Member Added, Paul Irwin, October 2013
* Last committer added Sept 2016, Shad Storhaug (nightowl888)
* PMC Chair rotated 20 June 2018 to Shad Storhaug (nightowl888)

== Statistics ==

As of 2019.02.01 Metric are as follows:

Release 3.0.3
* Lucene.Net 3.0.3: 1,757,023 (Jan 2018 - 880,370)
* Lucene.Net.Contrib 3.0.3: 370229 (Jan 2018 - 202,988)
* Lucene.Net Contrib Spatial: 26483 (Jan 2018 - 17,182)
* Lucene.Net Contrib Spatial.NTS: 5697 (Jan 2018 - 2,6909)

Beta 4.8.0-beta00005 (Published 10/24/2017)
* Lucene.Net: 72395
* Lucene.Net.Analysis.Common: 64981
* Lucene.Net.Analysis.Kuromoji: 2240
* Lucene.Net.Analysis.Phonetic: 561
* Lucene.Net.Analysis.SmartCn: 238
* Lucene.Net.Analysis.Stempel: 469
* Lucene.Net.Benchmark: 181
* Lucene.Net.Classification: 361
* Lucene.Net.Codecs: 1205
* Lucene.Net.Expressions: 2770
* Lucene.Net.Facet: 3078
* Lucene.Net.Grouping: 3644
* Lucene.Net.Highlighter: 2156
* Lucene.Net.ICU: 332
* Lucene.Net.Join: 3286
* Lucene.Net.Memory: 3213
* Lucene.Net.Misc: 2580
* Lucene.Net.Queries: 56362
* Lucene.Net.QueryParser: 52534
* Lucene.Net.Replicator: 183
* Lucene.Net.Sandbox: 58878
* Lucene.Net.Spatial: 1080
* Lucene.Net.Suggest: 2067

16 Jan 2019 [Shad Storhaug / Isabel] ¶

No report was submitted.

@Rich: is this project headed for the attic?

19 Dec 2018 [Shad Storhaug / Ted] ¶

No report was submitted.

21 Nov 2018 [Shad Storhaug / Mark] ¶

No report was submitted.

17 Oct 2018 [Shad Storhaug / Rich] ¶

No report was submitted.

19 Sep 2018 [Shad Storhaug / Rich] ¶

No report was submitted.

@Rich: pursue a report for Lucene.Net

20 Jun 2018 ¶

Change the Apache Lucene.Net Project Chair

 WHEREAS, the Board of Directors heretofore appointed Prescott Nasser
 (pnasser) to the office of Vice President, Apache Lucene.Net, and

 WHEREAS, the Board of Directors is in receipt of the resignation of
 Prescott Nasser from the office of Vice President, Apache Lucene.Net,
 and

 WHEREAS, the Project Management Committee of the Apache Lucene.Net
 project has chosen by vote to recommend Shad Storhaug (nightowl888) as
 the successor to the post;

 NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, that Prescott Nasser is relieved and
 discharged from the duties and responsibilities of the office of Vice
 President, Apache Lucene.Net, and

 BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that Shad Storhaug be and hereby is appointed
 to the office of Vice President, Apache Lucene.Net, to serve in
 accordance with and subject to the direction of the Board of Directors
 and the Bylaws of the Foundation until death, resignation, retirement,
 removal or disqualification, or until a successor is appointed.

 Special Order 7D, Change the Apache Lucene.Net Project Chair,
 was approved by Unanimous Vote of the directors present.

20 Jun 2018 [Prescott Nasser / Phil] ¶

We've engaged the Lucene.Net community of the dev and user mailing lists in
discussions about the future of the project and people are showing interest in
helping out.

With this board meeting we are asking the board to make Shad the new chairman
of the Lucene.Net PMC and want to thank Prescott for his duty.

16 May 2018 [Prescott Nasser / Rich] ¶

Lucene.NET's development has come to a complete stand-still since
about six months by now. Not a single commit to the ASF repository has
happened. While there are a few PMC members around who send an
occasional emails, nobody seems to find the time to carry on
development.

When we asked on the dev list whether people were willing to
contribute only a few people indicated interest but said they wouldn't
find the time to contribute anyway.

Financial support has been offered to the project and directed to the
appropriate ASF channels
https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LUCENENET-601.

There are different opinions between PMC members whether Lucene.NET is
on its way into the Attic. The Attic has already been mentioned by one
PMC member on the dev list but we haven't openly discussed dissolving
the PMC and going to the Attic.

We'll be kicking of a public discussion about the future of the
project in the coming week. If we decide to go to the Attic then this
will have already been the first step according to
http://attic.apache.org/process.html

@Ted: remind them to please be sure to report next month

18 Apr 2018 [Prescott Nasser / Brett] ¶

No report was submitted.

@Shane: pursue a report again for Lucene.Net

21 Mar 2018 [Prescott Nasser / Shane] ¶

No report was submitted.

@Shane: pursue a report for Lucene.Net

17 Jan 2018 [Prescott Nasser / Mark] ¶

Apache Lucene.Net is a port of the Lucene search engine library, written in C#
and targeted at .NET runtime users.

== Summary ==
While we are *very* slowly working towards a 4.8 release, we are
really starting to stumble. Several of the PMC and committers are still
around and semi-response to the mailing lists, but their other commitments
leave little time to help get 4.8.0 over the line to a full release. We've
started a thread to try and learn from the mailing list members what the
barriers to contribute are.

The mailing lists still see's a modest amount of traffic, questions and
answers, but it's primarily support for packages out there and less about the
work we need to do to get over the line.

Additionally, we are looking to rotate VP's of the project, but as of yet
haven't had any takers. My own obligations have unfortunately left me with
little time to actively be involved. A few of the PMC members are still around
to run the test suite and vote, and I believe we have the 3 votes required to
pass releases, but we are limping.

== Releases ==
* Last Release 3.0.3 - Oct 2012 Working toward 4.8.0

==Board Questions==
"Missing Reports" (I'm not sure anyone explicitly asked this). As mentioned
 above, my time has been extremely limited, and we are looking to rotate our
 VP, but as of yet have had no takers. Stefan Bodewig suggests we might need
 to look towards the attic - which I believe would be unfortunate, but may be
 the reality.

== Statistics ==
* Last PMC Member Added, Paul Irwin, October 2013
* Last committer added Sept 2016, Shad Storhaug

We've adjusted our package structure with version 4.8 Beta, to be more modular
and we probably need to find a new way to report these metrics. For the older
packages:
* Lucene.Net 3.0.3: 880,370 (up from 357,422)
* Lucene.Net.Contrib 3.0.3: 202,988 (up from 95,087)
* Lucene.Net Contrib Spatial: 17,182 (up from 10,574)
* Lucene.Net Contrib Spatial.NTS: 2,690  (up from 1,999)

Package   Downloads (Beta 1-5) Version
Lucene.Net    18171 4.8.0-beta00005
Lucene.Net.Analysis.Kuromoji  50 4.8.0-beta00005
Lucene.Net.Analysis.Phonetic 80 4.8.0-beta00005
Lucene.Net.Analysis.SmartCn  52 4.8.0-beta00005
Lucene.Net.Analysis.Stempel  232 4.8.0-beta00005
Lucene.Net.Benchmark  52 4.8.0-beta00005
Lucene.Net.Classification  337 4.8.0-beta00005
Lucene.Net.Codecs   318 4.8.0-beta00005
Lucene.Net.Expressions         234 4.8.0-beta00005
Lucene.Net.Facet   793 4.8.0-beta00005
Lucene.Net.Grouping   892 4.8.0-beta00005
Lucene.Net.Highlighter  1117 4.8.0-beta00005
Lucene.Net.ICU    246 4.8.0-beta00005
Lucene.Net.Join          819 4.8.0-beta00005
Lucene.Net.Memory   1507 4.8.0-beta00005
Lucene.Net.Misc          878 4.8.0-beta00005
Lucene.Net.Queries   15920 4.8.0-beta00005
Lucene.Net.QueryParser          17078 4.8.0-beta00005
Lucene.Net.Replicator  49 4.8.0-beta00005
Lucene.Net.Sandbox   15321 4.8.0-beta00005
Lucene.Net.Spatial   361 4.8.0-beta00005
Lucene.Net.Suggest  487 4.8.0-beta00005

20 Dec 2017 [Prescott Nasser / Brett] ¶

Lucene.Net is a port of the Lucene search engine library, written in C# and
targeted at .NET runtime users.

The PMC chairman has indicated he'd like to step down but the PMC hasn't come
up with a successor so far. Please allow us to get our act together and report
in January.

Lucene.Net is actively developed with one committer (Shad Storhaug) carrying
almost all of the load. We released 4.8.0 beta 5 on October 23, 2017 which has
been downloaded more than 1000 times from nuget. We see an average of more
than 800 downloads a day for all versions combined. So the library is used a
lot but unfortunately we haven't been able to attract new contributors.

The last committer we added was Shad Storhaug who is also the latest PMC
member elected in May 2017.

@Phil: pursue a more substantial report for next month

15 Nov 2017 [Prescott Nasser / Shane] ¶

No report was submitted.

18 Oct 2017 [Prescott Nasser / Ted] ¶

No report was submitted.

20 Sep 2017 [Prescott Nasser / Jim] ¶

No report was submitted.

21 Jun 2017 [Prescott Nasser / Jim] ¶

Apache Lucene.Net is a port of the Lucene search engine library, written in C#
and targeted at .NET runtime users.

== Summary ==
* As of last board report we had finally shipped beta 1 of Lucene 4.8.0. We
 are currently at 4.8.0-beta00004
* Strong community involvement to get this over the line, and lots of people
 are jumping in to give feedback on the release.

== Releases ==
* Release 4.8.0 Beta4 - May 21st, 2017
* Release 4.8.0 Beta1 - May 9th, 2017
* Release 3.0.3 - Oct 2012

== Statistics ==
* Last PMC Member added May 2017, Shad Storhaug
* Last committer added Sept 2016, Shad Storhaug

Nuget package downloads:
As we will have 17 packages for 4.8.0 release, I'll work on a new way to
present these metrics. Currently we have just over 900 downloads of the core
beta package and 50 for the various libraries that add additional features

17 May 2017 [Prescott Nasser / Ted] ¶

Apache Lucene.Net is a port of the Lucene search engine library, written in C#
and targeted at .NET runtime users.

== Summary ==
* Finally released a beta version of 4.8.0 to the community. (Vote:
 https://s.apache.org/e5mT, passed )
* We're quickly following that up with a second beta to fix some critical
 multi threading issues (Vote currently inprogress)
* Strong community involvement to get this over the line, and lots of people
 are jumping in to give feedback on the release.
* Previously we've been asked about "strong involvement". In efforts to
 quantify that a bit, mailing list message count on dev starting in Jan: 28,
 14, 58, 167, 123 (10 days into may). Additionally, we've had several
 community members look at performance enhancements and submit PR's (which
 for us is not common).


== Releases ==
* Release 4.8.0 Beta1 - May, 2017
* Release 3.0.3 - Oct 2012

== Statistics ==
* Last PMC Member added May 2017, Shad Storhaug
* Last committer added Sept 2016, Shad Storhaug

Nuget package downloads:
* Lucene.Net 3.0.3: 550,874 (up from 417,307)
* Lucene.Net.Contrib 3.0.3: 141,606 (up from 109,915)
* Lucene.Net Contrib Spatial: 12,883 (up from 11,269)
* Lucene.Net Contrib Spatial.NTS: 2,347 (up from 2,079)

As we will have 17 packages for 4.8.0 release, I'll work on a new way to
present these metrics. Currently we have about 18 downloads of the core beta
package and 9 for the various libraries that add additional features

19 Apr 2017 [Prescott Nasser / Shane] ¶

No report was submitted.

15 Mar 2017 [Prescott Nasser / Jim] ¶

No report was submitted.

@Jim: pursue a report for Lucene.Net

21 Dec 2016 [Prescott Nasser / Shane] ¶

Apache Lucene.Net is a port of the Lucene search engine library, written in
C# and targeted at .NET runtime users.

== Summary ==
* Currently have 4.8 in pre-release (http://myget.org/gallery/lucene-net,
 downloads: 25398)
* Strong community involvement to get this over the line

== Releases ==
* Last Release 3.0.3 - Oct 2012

== Statistics ==
* Last PMC Member Added, Paul Irwin, October 2013
* Last committer added Sept 2016, Shad Storhaug

Nuget package downloads:
* Lucene.Net 3.0.3: 417,307  (up from 357,422)
* Lucene.Net.Contrib 3.0.3: 109,915  (up from 95,087)
* Lucene.Net Contrib Spatial: 11,269  (up from 10,574)
* Lucene.Net Contrib Spatial.NTS: 2,079 (up from 1,999)

21 Sep 2016 [Prescott Nasser / Greg] ¶

Apache Lucene.Net is a port of the Lucene search engine library, written in C#
and targeted at .NET runtime users.

== Summary ==
* Currently looking at releasing nuget packages for 4.8.0 Beta
* Voted to add a new committer Shad Storhaug (who joined early September)
* Officially we have had Lucene.Net 4.8 out in beta for a while, we're getting
 close to a final release

== Releases ==
* Last Release 3.0.3 - Oct 2012 Working toward 4.8.0

== Statistics ==
* Last PMC Member Added, Paul Irwin, October 2013
* Last committer added Sept 2016, Shad Storhaug

==Board Question==
"mt: An explanation for the long gap between releases would be helpful."

As mentioned in many previous board reports the Lucene.Net community has
struggled to consistently maintain strong community involvement. We had
several quarters of good progress followed by zero progress. As of this
moment, we are making great progress and our community appears to be much more
vibrate than in the past when we had on going progress.

Nuget package downloads:
* Lucene.Net 3.0.3: 357,422 (up from 308,623)
* Lucene.Net.Contrib 3.0.3: 95,087 (up from 83,361)
* Lucene.Net Contrib Spatial: 10,574 (up from 9,734)
* Lucene.Net Contrib Spatial.NTS: 1,999 (up from 1,841)

15 Jun 2016 [Prescott Nasser / Brett] ¶

Apache Lucene.Net is a port of the Lucene search engine library, written in C#
and targeted at .NET runtime users.

== Summary ==
* Currently looking at releasing nuget packages for 4.8.0 Beta
* We continue to see strong community support - looking at adding new
 committers soon
* Efforts are under way to make Lucene.Net into a Portal Common Library (PCL),
 to work across all devices that support .NET

== Releases ==
* Last Release 3.0.3 - Oct 2012 Working toward 4.8.0

== Statistics ==
* Last PMC Member Added, Paul Irwin, October 2013
* Two committers added Jan '15 -Laimonas, Feb '15 - Wyatt

Nuget package downloads:
* Lucene.Net 3.0.3: 308,623 (up from 278,843)
* Lucene.Net.Contrib 3.0.3: 83,361 (up from 75,128)
* Lucene.Net Contrib Spatial: 9,734 (up from 9,221)
* Lucene.Net Contrib Spatial.NTS: 1,841 (up from 1,749)

20 Apr 2016 [Prescott Nasser / Mark] ¶

Apache Lucene.Net is a port of the Lucene search engine library, written in C#
and targeted at .NET runtime users.

== Summary ==

We continue to yo-yo in community involvement. In our December report we saw
an uptick in community involvement, followed by a lull, followed by some very
active community engagement end of march to present.

We are looking at updating Lucene.Net 4.8.0 (which is nearly complete) to
work on .NET Core (to work across various OS's).

== Releases ==

Last Release 3.0.3 - Oct 2012 Working toward 4.8.0

== Statistics ==

Last PMC Member Added, Paul Irwin, October 2013
Two committers added Jan '15 -Laimonas, Feb '15 - Wyatt

Nuget package downloads:
Lucene.Net 3.0.3: 278,843 (up from 217,779)
Lucene.Net.Contrib 3.0.3: 75,128 (up from 59,022)
Lucene.Net Contrib Spatial: 9,221 (up from 8,060)
Lucene.Net Contrib Spatial.NTS: 1,749 (up from 1,523)

16 Mar 2016 [Prescott Nasser / David] ¶

No report was submitted.

16 Dec 2015 [Prescott Nasser / Rich] ¶

Apache Lucene.Net is a port of the Lucene search engine library, written in C#
and targeted at .NET runtime users.

== Summary ==

We continue to yo-yo in community involvement. Our report dated 10/17/15, we
were in a lull, but as of the last week or so we have started to uptick
towards a release of 4.8.0

We have verbal commitments from several open source projects to provide
assistance once we show some of our own momentum.

We are still working to have all tests passing across the various devs who run
them.

We are struggling to pull it over the line. We had a number of core committers
check who said they should be freeing up to help this quarter

== Releases ==

Last Release 3.0.3 - Oct 2012 Working toward 4.8.0

== Statistics ==

Last PMC Member Added, Paul Irwin, October 2013
Two committers added Jan '15 -Laimonas, Feb '15 - Wyatt

Nuget package downloads:
Lucene.Net 3.0.3: 217,779 (up from 195111)
Lucene.Net.Contrib 3.0.3: 59,022 (up from 52823)
Lucene.Net Contrib Spatial: 8,060 (up from 7349)
Lucene.Net Contrib Spatial.NTS: 1,523 (up from 1426)

21 Oct 2015 [Prescott Nasser / Sam] ¶

Apache Lucene.Net is a port of the Lucene search engine library, written in
C# and targeted at .NET runtime users.

== Summary ==

We continue to yo-yo in community involvement. Our report dated 6/10, we saw a
significant up tick, but that faded as we got very close to a 4.8.0 release.
Some of us have all the tests passing and some don't so we are close in the
Lucene.Net.Core project.

The status of the associated libraries are very behind - next up is the
Analysis code.

No progress was made on a website refresh (that we wanted to launch with
4.8.0)

We are struggling to pull it over the line. We had a number of core committers
check who said they should be freeing up to help this quarter (now only 2
months elft

Pushing on 4.8.0.
- Approximately 7 commits in the last quarter to move our port along
(resolving tests)
- Currently we have ~5 failed failing tests to fix (down from ~80 last report.
Also depends on environment still, we are trying to tighten that up)
- Some additional libraries that help users make the most of Lucene.Net
(Analysis, Suggest, Highlighters, QueryParser, Codecs and a few others)

== Releases ==
Last Release 3.0.3 - Oct 2012 Working toward 4.8.0

== Statistics ==
Last PMC Member Added, Paul Irwin, October 2013 Two committers added Jan '15 -
Laimonas, Feb '15 - Wyatt

Nuget package downloads:
Lucene.Net 3.0.3: 195111 (up from 160246)
Lucene.Net.Contrib 3.0.3: 52823 (up from 41550)
Lucene.Net Contrib Spatial: 7349 (up from 6123)
Lucene.Net Contrib Spatial.NTS: 1426 (up from 1239)

16 Sep 2015 [Prescott Nasser / David] ¶

No report was submitted.

17 Jun 2015 [Prescott Nasser / Brett] ¶

Apache Lucene.Net is a port of the Lucene search engine library, written in
C#  and targeted at .NET runtime users.

== Summary ==

As last reported, we were concerned with the stagnant nature of our PMC.
That concern is fading as we've seen a large uptick in community involvement
from both the current committers/PMC members as well as the greater community.


- Our website refresh has stalled, I will look to revive this over the next
quarter. We'd like to have a refresh with the 4.8.0 release

Pushing on 4.8.0.
- Approximately 30 commits in the last quarter to move our port along
- Currently we have ~80 failed failing tests to fix (down from ~120 last
report) as well
 as some additional libraries that help users make the most of Lucene.Net
 (Suggest, Analysis, Highlighters, QueryParser, Codecs and a few others)


== Crowdfunding ==

Previously we mentioned that one of our PMC members was looking to crowdfund
some of his development time. However, took up a new full time job while we
were sorting out some of the specifics. We currently have no knowledge of any
plans for this at this time

== Releases ==
Last Release 3.0.3 - Oct 2012 Working toward 4.8.0

== Statistics ==
Last PMC Member Added, Paul Irwin, October 2013 Two
committers added Jan '15 - Laimonas Simutis, Feb '15 - Wyatt Barnett

Nuget package downloads:
Lucene.Net 3.0.3: 160246 (up from 133926)
Lucene.Net.Contrib 3.0.3: 41550 (up from 34701)
Lucene.Net Contrib Spatial: 6123 (up from 4892)
Lucene.Net Contrib Spatial.NTS: 1239 (up from 1120)

18 Mar 2015 [Prescott Nasser / Doug] ¶

Apache Lucene.Net is a port of the Lucene search engine library, written in
C#  and targeted at .NET runtime users.

== Summary ==

As last reported, we were concerned with the stagnant nature of our PMC.
That concern is fading as we've seen a large uptick in community invovlement
from both the current commiters/PMC members as well as the greater community.

- Continous Integration is now fully configured
- We're still looking at website refresh

Pushing hard on 4.8.0.
 - Approxmiately 200 commits in the last quarter to move our port along
 - 4 community members submitted patches to the port (who are not commiters
   or PMC members)
 - Currently we have ~120 failing tests to fix, as well as some additional
   libraries that help users make the most of Lucene.Net (Suggest, Analysis,
   Highligthers, QueryParser, Codecs and afew others)
 - Mailing list messages are also on the up tick.

== Crowdfunding ==

One of our PMC members (Itamar Syn-Hershko), is working on launching a crowd
funding campaign to allow him to finalize the work he has been tirelessly
putting into the 4.8.0 release. The PMC is supportive of his efforts.

== Releases ==
Last Release 3.0.3 - Oct 2012
Working toward 4.8.0

== Statistics ==
Last PMC Member Added, Paul Irwin, October 2013
Two committers added Jan '15 - Laimonas Simutis, Feb '15 - Wyatt Barnett

Nuget package downloads:
Lucene.Net 3.0.3: 133926
Lucene.Net Contrib 3.0.3: 34701
Lucene.Net Contrib Spatial: 4892
Lucene.Net Contrib Spatial.NTS: 1120

17 Dec 2014 [Prescott Nasser / Bertrand] ¶

Apache Lucene.Net is a port of the Lucene search engine library, written in C#
and targeted at .NET runtime users.

== Summary ==

The PMC has recognized we have become stagnant and have not had a release in
two years. We are actively working towards rebuilding and re-invigorating the
community.
Cleaning up our PMC processes:
 - We realized several PMC members were not on the private mailing list
 - There was a typo in the moderation account for the mailing list
   that wasn't realized
 - We had a roll call and all PMC members are now present and accounted for
 - Last PMC Member Added, Paul Irwin, October 2013

Working on our community / tooling:
 - We're actively brainstorming how to create better documentation around
   getting started with Lucene.Net as a developer, and getting invovled
   as a committer
 - With the help of our community members and some free licensing, we are
   in the process of setting up a CI system for our tests
 - We're looking at possibly pulling in questions from stackoverflow to the
   mailing list to expand visibility of those questions to the mailing list
   and hopefully spur conversation (SO questions look like 1 per 1-2 days
   or so at most)
 - Looking at a website refresh to go along with the documentation
Pushing hard on 4.8.0.
 - We were provided a contribution from MSFT over the summer of a significant
   code port of the 4.8.0 Java code. We have been working to clean that up.
   Currently we have 300 failing tests to fix, as well as some additional
   libraries that help users make the most of Lucene.Net (encoding codecs and
   contrib extensions)

We could use any advice or assistance on the above to help us build / rebuild our
community.

== Releases ==
Last Release 3.0.3 - Oct 2012
Working toward 4.8.0

== Statistics ==
Nuget package downloads:
Lucene.Net 3.0.3: 106720
Lucene.Net Contrib 3.0.3: 29343
Lucene.Net Contrib Spatial: 3987
Lucene.Net Contrib Spatial.NTS: 980

@Ross: Discuss with comdev how to get projects to engage with them more

17 Sep 2014 [Prescott Nasser / Chris] ¶

Apache Lucene.Net is a port of the Lucene search engine library, written in C#
and targeted at .NET runtime users.

== Summary ==

In the last month we have had a significant contribution from some interns at
Microsoft. After working through CLA/ICLA issues we were able to get their
code for a port of Java Lucene 4.8 into our official Lucene.Net repo. We are
actively working on getting tests to pass (with approx. 3/4ths passing). As
well as porting additional contrib packages for additional functionality.

We had some issues with the ICLA, and it was determined, with legal, secretary
and some board input, that we are not going to question CLA's and their
responses where they say they do not require employer CCLA's.

== Releases ==

Working toward 4.8. Additionally we have a 4.3 port targeting portable common
library in the works.

== Statistics ==

Nuget package downloads:
Lucene.Net 3.0.3: 85731
Lucene.Net Contrib 3.0.3: 25325
Lucene.Net Contrib Spatial: 3480
Lucene.Net Contrib Spatial.NTS: 842

== Additional Information ==

- We've gotten some support from Microsoft developers, it looks like there is
 a group in MSFT that is taking an active interest in this project (just an
 observation)
- We've had some questions about the health of the project on our mailing
 list, as well as a number of people asking how they could get involved
 (from website maintenance to porting code)
- A few of our committers are very active working to finalize the v4 port of
 Lucene.Net
- There have been ~50 new questions tagged as Lucene.Net since July
 (http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/lucene.net?page=1&sort=newest&pagesize=50)
- Overall, I feel we are doing ok, but as a team we need to get a new release
 out (last release was end of 2012)

Our last PMC Member and Committer was added late 2013

18 Jun 2014 [Prescott Nasser / Sam] ¶

Apache Lucene.Net is a port of the Lucene search engine library, written in C#
and targeted at .NET runtime users.

== Summary ==

Activity has picked up for the port of 4.3.0, the team is finishing up testing
and some contrib packages for additional functionality. It looks like we
should be approaching a release soon (closer than last report which had
similar language)

== Releases ==

Working toward 4.3.0

== Statistics ==

Nuget package downloads: Lucene.Net 3.0.3: 69765
Lucene.Net Contrib 3.0.3: 20767
Lucene.Net Contrib Spatial: 2639
Lucene.Net Contrib Spatial.NTS: 732

== Additional Information ==

The overall health of the community is difficult to quantify -
* We have some new names popping up in our developers mailing list, helping us
with bug fixes and tweaks, as well as questions regarding our progress
* A few of our committers are very active working to finalize the v4 port of
Lucene.Net
* There have been ~50 new questions tagged as Lucene.Net since March
(http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/lucene.net?page=1&sort=newest&pages
ize=50)

Areas needing improvement -
* As a group we need to update our documentation / wiki to allow others to
easily jump in and contribute - it's difficult to understand the current
progress and see what needs to be done as an outsider
* A better, more up to date roadmap and better communication with the
community

Our last PMC Member and Committer was added late 2013

19 Mar 2014 [Prescott Nasser / Shane] ¶

Apache Lucene.Net is a port of the Lucene search engine library, written
in C# and targeted at .NET runtime users.

== Summary ==

Activity has picked up for the port of 4.3.0, the team is finishing up
testing and some contrib packages for additional functionality. It looks
like we should be approaching a release soon.

== Releases ==

Working toward 4.3.0, hopefully shortly

== Statistics ==

Nuget package downloads:

Lucene.Net 3.0.3: 53626
Lucene.Net Contrib 3.0.3: 16349
Lucene.Net Contrib Spatial: 2205
Lucene.Net Contrib Spatial.NTS: 611

18 Dec 2013 [Prescott Nasser / Greg] ¶

Apache Lucene.Net is a port of the Lucene search engine library, written in
C# and targeted at .NET runtime users.

== Summary ==

Activity has really picked up on our .NET port of Lucene 4.3. We've
officially brought in our apache repo work that started the 4.3 port from our
community. Work is still underway to finalize the port, some clean up work,
some additional features, and testing are all underway.

It's not clear when we will be releasing 4.3, but I think our hope is
January.

== Statistics ==

Nuget package downloads:
Lucene.Net 3.0.3: 39549
Lucene.Net Contrib 3.0.3: 12674
Lucene.Net Contrib Spatial: 1715
Lucene.Net Contrib Spatial.NTS: 521

18 Sep 2013 [Prescott Nasser / Shane] ¶

Apache Lucene.Net is a port of the Lucene search engine library, written in
C# and targeted at .NET runtime users.

== Summary ==

Over the past two months we have tried to re-invigorate our efforts on the
Lucene.Net project. Interest, progress and discussion had waned. One of our
community members has stepped up and has a running version of Lucene.Net
4.0.3 core. We have voted to invite him into the Lucene.Net PMC. We've begun
coordination of including his code into our official repo (waiting on a
signed ICLA). We hope to continue this progress.

== Releases ==

Last release was 3.0.3. We're attempting with the help of a group of our
community members to get 4.0.3 bootstrapped.

== Statistics ==

Nuget package downloads:
Lucene.Net 3.0.3: 26993 (+4374 over last month)
Lucene.Net Contrib 3.0.3: 8773 (+1079 over last month)
Lucene.Net Contrib Spatial: 1035 (+90 over last month)
Lucene.Net Contrib Spatial.NTS: 378 (+54 over last month)

21 Aug 2013 [Prescott Nasser / Chris] ¶

Apache Lucene.Net is a port of the Lucene search engine library, written in
C# and targeted at .NET runtime users.

== Summary ==

The board should be aware that while our mailing list is somewhat active - we
still answer and help the community, our development has stalled. Recently,
we have tried to reinvigorate the discussion. One of our community members
has stepped up and has a running version of Lucene.Net 4.0.3 core. We're
attempting to coordinate to get that into our official repo and rounding out
some of the additional contributed packages.

== Releases ==

Last release was 3.0.3. We're attempting with the help of a group of our
community members to get 4.0.3 bootstrapped.

== Statistics ==

Nuget package downloads:
Lucene.Net 3.0.3: 22619
Lucene.Net Contrib 3.0.3: 7695
Lucene.Net Contrib Spatial: 945
Lucene.Net Contrib Spatial.NTS: 324

17 Jul 2013 [Prescott Nasser / Chris] ¶

Apache Lucene.Net is a port of the Lucene search engine library, written in
C# and targeted at .NET runtime users.

== Summary ==

The board should be aware that while our mailing list is somewhat active -
we still answer and help the community, our development has stalled. Recently,
we have tried to reinvigorate the discussion, it's too early to tell how much
momentum we can gain and maintain.

Since last months (late report), not much progress has been made.

== Releases ==

None recently. One of the members of our community has started a 4.3 port, and
we're hoping to take that up and get that moving.

== Statistics ==

Nuget package downloads:
Lucene.Net 3.0.3: 20032
Lucene.Net Contrib 3.0.3: 6839
Lucene.Net Contrib Spatial:  905
Lucene.Net Contrib Spatial.NTS: 296

AI: Chris: late report; ask PMC to report next month

19 Jun 2013 [Prescott Nasser / Chris] ¶

No report was submitted.

20 Mar 2013 [Prescott Nasser / Bertrand] ¶

Apache Lucene.Net is a port of the Lucene search engine library, written in
C# and targeted at .NET runtime users.

== Summary ==

No Board level issues.

We adopted GIT source control in February

== Releases ==

Progress has been a bit slow but the next planned release is 3.6 which
mirrors the 3.6 code for Java Lucene. No timeline is currently available.
Planning and discussion are underway.

We're also discussing 4.0 release to get up to parity with Java Lucene.

== Statistics ==

Nuget package downloads:
 Lucene.Net 3.0.3: 8482
 Lucene.Net Contrib 3.0.3: 2772
 Lucene.Net Contrib Spatial: 463
 Lucene.Net Contrib Spatial.NTS: 188

19 Dec 2012 [Prescott Nasser / Roy] ¶

DESCRIPTION
Apache Lucene.Net is a port of the Lucene search engine library,
written in C# and targeted at .NET runtime users.

SUMMARY
No Board level issues.

RELEASES
The next planned release is 3.6 which mirrors the 3.6 code for Java Lucene.
No timeline is currently available. Planning and discussion are underway.

STATISTICS
Nuget package downloads (totals):
* Lucene.Net 3.0.3: 2279 (up from 850 last month)
* Lucene.Net Contrib 3.0.3: 612 (up from 229)
* Lucene.Net Contrib Spatial: 132 (up from 38)
* Lucene.Net Contrib Spatial.NTS: 115 (up from 34)

21 Nov 2012 [Prescott Nasser / Rich] ¶

Apache Lucene.Net is a port of the Lucene search engine library, written in
C# and targeted at .NET runtime users.

== Summary ==
No Board level issues.

== Releases ==
Lucene.Net 3.0.3 was released in the last month.
The next planned release is 3.6 which mirrors the 3.6 code for Java Lucene.
No timeline is currently available. Planning and discussion are underway.

== Statistics ==
Nuget package downloads:
Lucene.Net 3.0.3: 850
Lucene.Net Contrib 3.0.3: 229
Lucene.Net Contrib Spatial: 38
Lucene.Net Contrib Spatial.NTS: 34
Note: all these packages are new in the last month, so these represent <1
month of downloads

17 Oct 2012 [Prescott Nasser / Greg] ¶

== Description ==
Apache Lucene.Net is a port of the Lucene search engine library, written in C#
and targeted at .NET runtime users.

== Releases ==
We just passed a vote (Oct 9th, 2012) to release Apache Lucene.Net 3.0.3 with
the accompanying contrib packages. With version 2.9.4 we lost .Net 3.5
compatibility, with 3.0.3 we have brought that back. In the contrib release we
also have a completely new spatial package.

== Current Activity ==
The next planned release is 3.6 which mirrors the 3.6 code for Java Lucene. No
timeline is currently available.

== Statistics ==
Nuget package downloads:
Lucene.Net RC1 & RC2: 431
Lucene.Net Contrib RC1 & RC2: 125

19 Sep 2012 [Prescott Nasser / Greg] ¶

Apache Lucene.Net is a port of the Lucene search engine library,
written in C# and targeted at .NET runtime users.

Lucene.Net just graduated from the Incubator August 15th and we are
currently moving our resources and website out of the incubator. A new
DNS https://lucenenet.apache.org has been setup and our new mailing
lists have been created. Still to do is moving our SVN repositories
and moving over our website. We are nearing a new release, 3.0.3,
which should be put to a vote within a day or two.

15 Aug 2012 ¶

Establish the Apache Lucene.Net Project

 WHEREAS, the Board of Directors deems it to be in the best
 interests of the Foundation and consistent with the Foundation's
 purpose to establish a Project Management Committee charged with
 the creation and maintenance of open-source software, for distribution
 at no charge to the public, related to maintaining a .NET platform
 version of the Lucene Indexing Engine.

 NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, that a Project Management
 Committee (PMC), to be known as the "Apache Lucene.Net Project",
 be and hereby is established pursuant to Bylaws of the Foundation;
 and be it further

 RESOLVED, that the Apache Lucene.Net Project be and hereby is
 responsible for the creation and maintenance of software related
 to maintaining a .NET platform version of the Lucene Indexing
 Engine and be it further

 RESOLVED, that the office of "Vice President, Apache Lucene.Net"
 be and hereby is created, the person holding such office to serve
 at the direction of the Board of Directors as the chair of the
 Apache Lucene.Net Project, and to have primary responsibility for
 management of the projects within the scope of responsibility of
 the Apache Lucene.Net Project; and be it further

 RESOLVED, that the persons listed immediately below be and hereby
 are appointed to serve as the initial members of the Apache
 Lucene.Net Project:

 Prescott Nasser                <pnasser@apache.org>
 Christopher Currens            <ccurrens@apache.org>
 Stefan Bodewig                 <bodewig@apache.org>
 DIGY                           <digydigy@gmail.com>
 Michael Herndon                <mherndon@apache.org>
 Troy Howard                    <thoward@apache.org>
 Simon Svensson                 <sisve@apache.org>
 Itamar Syn-Hershko             <synhershko@apache.org>
 Scott Lombard                  <slombard@apache.org>

 NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that Prescott Nasser be
 appointed to the office of Vice President, Apache Lucene.Net, to
 serve in accordance with and subject to the direction of the Board
 of Directors and the Bylaws of the Foundation until death,
 resignation, retirement, removal or disqualification, or until a
 successor is appointed; and be it further

 RESOLVED, that the initial Apache Lucene.Net PMC be and hereby is
 tasked with the creation of a set of bylaws intended to encourage
 open development and increased participation in the Apache
 Lucene.Net Project; and be it further

 RESOLVED, that the Apache Lucene.Net Project be and hereby is
 tasked with the migration and rationalization of the Apache
 Incubator Lucene.Net podling; and be it further

 RESOLVED, that all responsibilities pertaining to the Apache
 Incubator Lucene.Net podling encumbered upon the Apache Incubator
 Project are hereafter discharged.

 Special Order 7B, Establish the Apache Lucene.Net Project, was
 approved by Unanimous Vote of the directors present.

15 Aug 2012 ¶

Lucene.Net was accepted into the Apache Incubator in February 2011.
Originally it was a sub project of the Lucene Project.

Lucene.Net is a port of the Lucene search engine library, written in C# and
targeted at .NET runtime users. Lucene.Net has three primary goals:

 - Maintain the existing line-by-line port from Java to C#, fully automating
   and commoditizing the process such that the project can easily synchronize
   with the Java Lucene release schedule.

 - High-performance C# search engine library.

 - Maximize usability and power when used within the .NET runtime. To that
   end, it will present a highly idiomatic, carefully tailored API that
   takes advantage of many of the special features of the .NET runtime.

Recent Activity:

 - Voted to graduation (vote passed - we will now be sending our resolution
   to the board)

Current Activities:

 Lucene 3.0.3 has taken longer to get out the door than expected -
 originally planned for June. We are still nearly ready to release,
 but we have added a lot of functionality - compatibility with .NET 3.5
 (which we removed for the 2.9.4 release). CLS compliance for usage with
 other .NET languages (like VB.NET). We have also done a lot of cleanup
 work on the code base.

 Working through the graduation process and all the entails.

Long term goals:

 Have a nearly fully automated process to convert Java Lucene to C#.
 (This has been a goal, but we are discussing if this is truly the best
 idea of the project).
 MAY UPDATE: We have done some more investigative work on this, but not
 much progress was made.
 AUGUST UPDATE: still unfortunately little progress has been made

 Parity with Java Lucene (4.0). Planning for an interim 3.6 release before
 the 4.0.

 Have a new .NET version of Lucene utilizing .NET constructs and idioms.
 Much progress was made on this (using properties vs GetXX/SetXX).

Graduation thought:

 We are submitting our resolution to the board, the vote has passed in
 our Lucene.Net community as well as by the IPMC and incubator community.

Signed-off-by: jukka

16 May 2012 ¶

Lucene.Net was accepted into the Apache Incubator in February 2011.
Originally it was a sub project of the Lucene Project.

Lucene.Net is a port of the Lucene search engine library, written in C# and
targeted at .NET runtime users. Lucene.Net has three primary goals:

 - Maintain the existing line-by-line port from Java to C#, fully automating
   and commoditizing the process such that the project can easily synchronize
   with the Java Lucene release schedule.

 - High-performance C# search engine library.

 - Maximize usability and power when used within the .NET runtime. To that
   end, it will present a highly idiomatic, carefully tailored API that
   takes advantage of many of the special features of the .NET runtime.

Recent Activity:

 - Released 2.9.4g (generics version of 2.9.4) at the end of january

Current Activities:

 - Lucene 3.0.3 porting is nearly complete. We have some bugs to work out,
   and need to clean up our contrib projects a bit, but we hope to release
   that within a month or two.

Long term goals:

 - Have a nearly fully automated process to convert Java Lucene to C#.
   (This has been a goal, but we are discussing if this is truely the best
   idea of the project). UPDATE: We have done some more investigative work
   on this, but not much progress was made.

 - Parity with Java Lucene (4.0)

 - Have a new .NET version of Lucene utilizing .NET constructs and idioms

Graduation thought:

 One of the mentors (Stefan Bodewig) has indicated he wants to start
 pushing for graduation. UPDATE: Unfortunately, we have not made any
 progress on this - hopefully we can have a more conclusive update next
 check in. Our development/committers group is small, and work sometimes
 happens in bursts and then stalls - something we need to work on a bit.
 The team has started to be more vocal about the project, for example a
 blog has been added, and hopes to attract more contributors.

Signed off by mentor: bodewig

15 Feb 2012 ¶

Lucene.Net was accepted into the Apache Incubator in February 2011.
Originally it was a sub project of the Lucene Project.

Lucene.Net is a port of the Lucene search engine library, written in
C# and targeted at .NET runtime users. Lucene.Net has three primary goals:

 - Maintain the existing line-by-line port from Java to C#, fully automating
   and commoditizing the process such that the project can easily synchronize
   with the Java Lucene release schedule.

 - High-performance C# search engine library.

 - Maximize usability and power when used within the .NET runtime. To that
   end, it will present a highly idiomatic, carefully tailored API that
   takes advantage of many of the special features of the .NET runtime.

Recent Activity:

 - Lucene.Net 2.9.4g passed a vote for release Jan 29th. We are preparing
   to move the files to dist, creating NuGet packages and updating the website

 - Significant Activity for Lucene.Net 3.0.3

Current Activities:

 - Porting Java Lucene 3.0.3
 - Porting Java Lucene 4.0
 - Hashing out style guidelines (FxCop / ReSharper)

Long term goals:

 - Have a nearly fully automated process to convert Java Lucene to C#.
   (This has been a goal, but we are discussing if this is truely the
   best idea of the project)
 - Release Lucene.Net 3.0.3 (port of Java Lucene 3.0.3)
 - Have a new .NET version of Lucene utilizing .NET constructs and idioms

Graduation thought:

 - One of the mentors (Stefan Bodewig) has indicated he wants to start
   pushing for graduation. We will be making plans to do this in the next
   couple of months

Signed off by mentor: bodewig

21 Dec 2011 ¶

DID NOT REPORT

16 Nov 2011 ¶

DID NOT REPORT

17 Aug 2011 ¶

Lucene.Net was accepted into the Apache Incubator in February 2011.
Originally it was a sub project of the Lucene Project.

Lucene.Net is a port of the Lucene search engine library, written in C# and
targeted at .NET runtime users. Lucene.Net has three primary goals:
* Maintain the existing line-by-line port from Java to C#, fully automating
and commoditizing the process such that the project can easily synchronize
with the Java Lucene release schedule.
* High-performance C# search engine library.
* Maximize usability and power when used within the .NET runtime. To that
end, it will present a highly idiomatic, carefully tailored API that takes
advantage of many of the special features of the .NET runtime.

Recent Activity:

* Lucene.Net 2.9.4 & 2.9.4g are being worked on and tested. The 'g' stands
for generics. The 2.9.4g version now uses .NET 4.0
* Prototyped build scripts with ncover, fxcop, style cop, nunit/mbunit, and
sandcastle have been made.

Current Activities:

* New site design per new Lucene.Net logo. StackOverflow was gracious enough
to put together a logo contest including footing the bill. The incubation
site now shows the logo that was picked from the contest.
http://incubator.apache.org/lucene.net/
* Working towards getting CI installed.
* The shingle filter was ported
* A simple faceted search contrib project was created.
* Develop a process to automatically (as much as possible) convert the Java
Lucene code to C# (to maintain our line by line port)

Goals for graduation:

* Have a nearly fully automated process to convert Java Lucene to C#.
* Release Lucene.Net 3.0.3 (port of Java Lucene 3.0.3)
* Have a new .NET version of Lucene utilizing .NET constructs and idioms

19 May 2011 ¶

Lucene.Net was accepted into the Apache Incubator in February 2011.
Originally it was a sub project of the Lucene Project.

Lucene.Net is a port of the Lucene search engine library, written in C# and
targeted at .NET runtime users. Lucene.Net has three primary goals:
* Maintain the existing line-by-line port from Java to C#, fully automating
and commoditizing the process such that the project can easily synchronize
with the Java Lucene release schedule.
* High-performance C# search engine library.
* Maximize usability and power when used within the .NET runtime. To that
end, it will present a highly idiomatic, carefully tailored API that takes
advantage of many of the special features of the .NET runtime.

Recent Activity:

* Lucene.Net 2.9.4 is in the trunk and currently being tested
* Continuous Integration, Unit Testing, and Code Coverage has been fully
vetted

Current Activities:

* Release Lucene.Net 2.9.4
* Refactoring of project files for the main trunk, allowing us to fully
implement CI, Unit Testing, and Code Coverage
* Develop a process to automatically (as much as possible) convert the Java
Lucene code to C# (to maintain our line by line port)

Goals for graduation:

* Have a nearly fully automated process to convert Java Lucene to C#.
* Release Lucene.Net 3.0.3 (port of Java Lucene 3.0.3)
* Have a new .NET version of Lucene utilizing .NET constructs and idioms

20 Apr 2011 ¶

Lucene.Net was accepted into the Apache Incubator in February 2011.
Originally it was a sub project of the Lucene Project.

Lucene.Net is a port of the Lucene search engine library, written in C# and
targeted at .NET runtime users.

Recent Activity:

* New website has been launched
* All Java Lucene changes for 2.9.4 have been ported and pre-release testing
has begun.

Current Activities:

* Complete testing of 2.9.4 version for release
* Implement a process for continuous integration, unit testing, and code
coverage
* Develop a process to automatically (as much as possible) convert the Java
Lucene code to C# (to maintain our line by line port)

Goals for graduation:

* Have a nearly fully automated process to convert Java Lucene to C#.
* Release Lucene.Net 3.0.3 (port of Java Lucene 3.0.3)
* Have a new .NET version of Lucene utilizing .NET constructs and idioms

16 Mar 2011 ¶

Lucene.Net was accepted into the Apache Incubator in February 2011.
Originally it was a sub project of the Lucene Project.

Lucene.Net is a port of the Lucene search engine library, written in C# and
targeted at .NET runtime users. Lucene.Net has three primary goals:
* Maintain the existing line-by-line port from Java to C#, fully automating
and commoditizing the process such that the project can easily synchronize
with the Java Lucene release schedule.
* High-performance C# search engine library.
* Maximize usability and power when used within the .NET runtime. To that
end, it will present a highly idiomatic, carefully tailored API that takes
advantage of many of the special features of the .NET runtime.

Recent Activity:

* Our new website is currently in the staging area utilizing the new ASF CMS
system
* We have officially released Lucene.Net 2.9.2.

Current Activities:

* Fully launch website
* Quickly iterate our release from 2.9.2 to 2.9.4
* Develop a process for continuous integration, unit testing, and code
coverage
* Develop a process to automatically (as much as possible) convert the Java
Lucene code to C# (to maintain our line by line port)

Goals for graduation:

* Have a nearly fully automated process to convert Java Lucene to C#.
* Release Lucene.Net 3.0.3 (port of Java Lucene 3.0.3)
* Have a new .NET version of Lucene utilizing .NET constructs and idioms

15 Jul 2009 ¶

DID NOT REPORT

15 Apr 2009 ¶

Lucene.Net has been in incubation since April 2006

Lucene.Net is a source code, class-per-class, API-per-API and algorithmatic
port of the Java Lucene search engine to the C# and .NET platform utilizing
Microsoft .NET Framework.

Not much changed from the last report:

 * Announced Lucene.Net 2.3.1 as "final" (via SVN).

 * Port of 2.3.2 is completed; the code is being reviewed and should be
announced soon.

 * Work is simultaneously underway on the Lucene.Net 2.4.0 port.

 * We are in the process of looking into graduation

21 Jan 2009 ¶

Lucene.Net has been in incubation since April 2006

Lucene.Net is a source code, class-per-class, API-per-API and algorithmatic
port of the Java Lucene search engine to the C# and .NET platform utilizing
Microsoft .NET Framework.

Lucene.Net has seen positive activities over the past 3 (or even 6 months),
the key highlights are:

 * Accepted Isik Yigit (aka: "DIGY") and Doug Sale as new committers, on
November 2008.
 * Announced Lucene.Net 2.3.1 as beta (via SVN).
 * Work is underway on the Lucene.Net 2.3.2 port.
 * Work is simultaneously underway on the Lucene.Net 2.4.0 port.

15 Oct 2008 ¶

No changes.... still a limping along community with the potential for new
committers on the horizon for quite some time now but no action towards
bringing them on.  There is some vitality to the mailing list, but being a
mostly auto-generated port of Java Lucene does not an excitingly innovative
project make.

16 Jul 2008 ¶

IPMC reviews: jukka

Lucene.Net is a source code, class-per-class, API-per-API and algorithmatic
port of the Java Lucene search engine to the C# and .NET platform utilizing
Microsoft .NET Framework. Lucene Indexes created with Java / C# Lucene are
cross compatible.

Lucene.Net has been incubating since April 2006.

Development on Lucene.Net is back with renewed interest and commitment from
a number of new folks. Currently, work is underway to port Java Lucene
2.3.1 to the .NET platform. In addition, we are looking to add new
committers to the project based on their contribution.

16 Apr 2008 ¶

Lucene.Net has been struggling with the absence of the only committer
(George Aroush).  A handful of the top contributors are in the process of
rallying and proposing themselves as future committers and rejuvenating the
project.  There is interest here, but it has been a tough time for this
project.

Perhaps we could liason with Microsoft (Bill Rowe might take point) on
publicizing and promoting ASF .NET/C# projects.

17 Oct 2007 ¶

Project name - Apache Lucene.Net

Description - Lucene.Net is a source code, class-per-class, API-per-API and
algorithmtic port of the Java Lucene search engine to the C# and .NET
platform utilizing Microsoft .NET Framework.

Date of entry - April, 2006

Progress since last report - We have seen good activities in the past three
months on the mailing list (both the dev and user).  Unlike in the past,
where I was taking care of all fixes in the code in preparation to a
release, I have seen considerable patches submitted by the community to
resolve open issues in Lucene.Net 2.1 work.  This is very encouraging and I
would like to suggest to the community to vote on adding one of the active
patch submitter as a committer.

Code aspects - Code is very stable with current "beta" version of 2.1 which
we expect to release in the next few weeks.

Community aspects - We have good followers and the past three months have
shown good commitments for submitting patches.

Top three items to resolve -

1. Growth of community - while this has been improving, we still need more
active members, specially those who submit patches.

2. Release Apache Lucene.Net 2.1 and start working on 2.2 / 2.3.

3. Vote in a new committer.

18 Jul 2007 ¶

Description - Lucene.Net is a source code, class-per-class, API-per-API and
algorithmatic port of the Java Lucene search engine to the C# and .NET
platform utilizing Microsoft .NET Framework.

Date of entry - April, 2006

Top item(s) to resolve - Increase the development community and
participation.  Since the incubation of Lucene.Net, there has been only one
active committer, George Aroush, who has done 99% of the port work.  This
has slowed the port effort such that we are now over 3 months behind with
out 2.1 release.  Currently, I have tried to re-energies this effort and
emphasized that without developers, Lucene.Net will suffer and never
graduate.  I have gotten several mails offering to help, I will work on
those and try to build the development community.

Community aspects - There is a good followers, with good user base.  A lot
of questions get asked and answered on the user list.

Code aspects - Released version 2.0 "final" on April 2007.  Released version
2.1 "alpha" on May 2007

25 Apr 2007 ¶

iPMC Reviewers: rdonkin, jukka

Lucene.Net has had a rough time learning the ropes of the Apache Incubator,
struggling with making releases that dot all the i's.  There are several
hurdles, with a single committer (George Aroush) using a language/platform
that is not commonly used at the ASF and which has a culture that has
historically not been about open source (C# .NET).  Goerge has put forth
additional effort recently to address the concerns that the Incubator PMC
mentioned, and is on its way to a new release.

iPMC questions / comments:
 * jukka: Incubating since 2006-03-15

17 Jan 2007 ¶

Lucene.Net is a port of the Java Lucene to C#.  The API, algorithm and index
are cross compatible.

Incubation

* Lucene.Net has been under incubation since April 2006

Community

* An active, but a small community exists.  The challenge has been to bring
in folks who are willing to contribute to the code beside myself.

Code and documentation

* The code base continues to develop and new releases are being made.
Recently Lucene.Net 2.0 "final" was release as well as Highlighter.Net 2.0
and Snowball.Net 2.0.  In addition, for each of those components, there
corresponding MSDN style documentation is also release.

----

19 Jul 2006 ¶

Lucene.Net continues to progress. Recently Lucene.Net 1.9 RC1 Final was
released.  In addition, Lucene.Net 1.9.1 Beta is released.  Work is underway
to release Lucene.Net 2.0 Beta by end of July. Folks are beginning to
discover Lucene.Net and activities on the project from posting questions and
code fixes are beginning to show some signs of life. However, things are
still slow in terms of participation. Lucene.Net can use some publicity and
exposure which I intend to start doing by asking to create a link to
Lucene.Net on the main Jakarta Lucene web page as well as by creating a Wiki
page for Lucene.Net.