=== Lucene Status Report: March, 2009 === TLP -The PMC voted to create a new subproject named the Open Relevance Project designed to collect and distribute collections, queries and relevance judgments for search (and other) testing. -The PMC added Mahout committers Sean Owen and Ted Dunning. -The PMC added PyLucene committer Andi Vajda. -The PMC added Nutch committer Dennis Kubes. LUCENE JAVA Lucene Java is a search-engine toolkit. Development has been active and we are working towards the release of 2.9. Lucene added Uwe Schindler as a core committer. SOLR Solr is a full text search server. Development and the community is active. Solr is working towards the release of 1.4. Solr added Mark Miller and Noble Paul as committers. NUTCH Nutch is a web-search engine: crawler, indexer and search runtime. Nutch 1.0 was released on March 28, 2009. Development is active, though slow. A major redesign and re-targetting of the project is planned and under discussion. LUCY Lucy is a C-based port of Lucene Java. Discussion has picked up on the Lucy dev mailing list and signs are positive, but we are still monitoring the project for viability. LUCENE.NET (incubating) Lucene.NET is a .NET based port of Lucene Java. Development and the community are active. Incubating project needs to look towards graduation soon. MAHOUT Apache Mahout is working towards building a suite of scalable machine learning libraries for text and data mining. Mahout released its first public release, version 0.1, on April 7, 2009. Mahout marked Ozgur Yilmazel, Erik Hatcher and Niranjan Balasubramanian as emeritus committers. PyLucene PyLucene is a Python integration of Lucene Java. Development is active. PyLucene 2.4.1 was first released on April 03, 2009. A refresher release, PyLucene 2.4.1-2, was released on May 23, 2009. TIKA Apache Tika is a toolkit for detecting and extracting metadata and structured text content from various documents using existing parser libraries. Tika 0.3 was released in March, and we are planning to release version 0.4 soon. Tika development continues at a steady pace with no major roadblocks in sight. A Solr-based search feature built and hosted by Lucid Imagination was added to the Tika web site.