=== Lucene Status Report: December, 2008 ===

TLP

The TLP has added Lucene Java committer Michael Busch to the PMC.

CRYPTOGRAPHY

Nutch uses PDFBox and thus has a dependency on BouncyCastle.  
https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/NUTCH-621 is now closed.


LUCENE JAVA

Lucene Java is a search-engine toolkit.  Development has been
active and we are working towards the release of 2.9.  
Uwe Schindler has been added as a contrib committer.

SOLR

Solr is a full text search server.  Development and the community
is active.  Solr 1.3 was released on September 15, 2008.

NUTCH

Nutch is a web-search engine: crawler, indexer and search runtime.
Development activity (measured by number of commits) has been low,
mainly bug fixes and minor enhancements. There are however some
nice new exciting features, currently under discussion attached
to Jira.
  
LUCY

Lucy will develop a shared C-based core for ports of Lucene to other
languages, such as Perl, Python and Ruby.  Some small, incremental
 progress has been made this quarter.

LUCENE.NET (incubating)

Lucene.Net continues to thrive with the addition of two new committers,
Doug Sale and Digy.  The project is still working through making some
official releases and getting organized but the community is vibrant.

TIKA

Apache Tika is a toolkit for detecting and extracting metadata and
structured text content from various documents using existing parser
libraries.  Tika has graduated from the Incubator and is now
a Lucene subproject.  On December 9th, 2008, Tika 0.2 was released
under the Lucene PMC. 


MAHOUT

Apache Mahout is a new subproject of the Lucene PMC with the goal of
building a suite of scalable machine learning libraries for text and
data mining.  We know have Map-Reduce implementations of several 
clustering algorithms, 2 classification algorithms based 
on bayesian statistics and support 
for scaling fitness functions in genetic algorithms.  
We are working on bug fixes and documentation to get ready for a 0.1 release.