Re: Lucene.NET Community Status

On Oct 30, 2010, at 1:56 PM, Simone Chiaretta wrote:

> 
> Personally I don't care if Lucene.net is part of the ASF, in the incubator
> or hosted on CodePlex as standalone project, as long as there are releases,
> and some committers are working on it.
> Maybe Lucene.net could follow the same steps of NHibernate: it was just the
> step-child of Hibernate, owned by the same "company" and later it evolved to
> a project with its own dignity and ownership, implementing features that
> didn't exist in the java version (like Linq and now ConfORM), and not just
> doing line-by-line posting.

Just to be clear, the ASF owns the name Lucene.Net.  There is no Lucene.Net elsewhere.  The code can go elsewhere and the community can, but if you want to keep the name, it needs to be here.  It's perfectly acceptable, however, to name it something else.

-Grant