=== Lucene Status Report: March 2013 ===

The Apache Lucene project develops open-source search software.

TLP
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We added two new PMC members in the last quarter: James Dyer and Stefan
Matheis.

No new committers were added in the last quarter.  The most recent committer
addition happened in October 2012.


Lucene Core and Solr
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Lucene Core is a search-engine toolkit.

Solr is a search server built on top of Lucene Core.

In the last quarter we made two releases of both Lucene Core and Solr:

 - 4.1 on 22 January 2013
 - 4.2 on 11 March 2013

The community is very active.

Open Relevance Project
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The Open Relevance Project is a project aimed at providing Lucene and others
tools for judging the quality of search and machine learning approaches.  The
community is not very active, but we don't expect it to be very high volume
either as it is a niche area.


PyLucene
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PyLucene is a Python integration of Lucene Java.  Development is almost
entirely an automated port, so this project will never require a lot of
developers.  The user community is active.

PyLucene 3.6.2 was released on 04 January 2013.