=== Lucene Status Report: March, 2010 ===

TLP

The TLP is considering some restructuring of subprojects
per Board suggestions in December.  Solr and Lucene
are merging committers (there is already quite a 
bit of overlap) and development efforts, but maintaining
separate user lists and artifacts.  

Mahout and Tika have both begun discussions on becoming 
TLPs and all signs are positive for such a move, but there is 
no board resolution to consider yet.

The TLP has elected to sponsor incubation of the Lucene 
Connectors Framework.  The project is now underway in 
the incubator.  We expect this project will become
a TLP as well.

Added Mark Miller as a PMC Member.


LUCENE JAVA

Lucene Java is a search-engine toolkit.  Development has been
active and we have released 2.9.2 and 3.0.1.

Added Chris Male as a committer.

SOLR

Solr is a full text search server.  Development and the community
is active.  Community is working toward a 1.5 release.

NUTCH

Nutch is a web-search engine: crawler, indexer and search runtime. Bug fixes
and other improvements have been flying by, with many of the issues being 
addressed by new Nutch committer Julien Nioche. Work has been performed
 to integrate
Tika parsing into Nutch (in addition to the existing work to integrate Tika's mime
detection functionality). Community is working towards a 1.1. release.

Added Julien Nioche as a committer.
  
LUCY

Lucy is a loose C port of Lucene targeted at dynamic language bindings.  Basic
thread support for the object system was completed.  The community decided to
transition from C89 to a dialect defined by the intersection of C99 and C++.

LUCENE.NET

Lucene.NET is a .NET based port of Lucene Java. Development and the
community are active.  

Community is working towards a 2.9.2 release.

Added Michael Garski as a committer

MAHOUT

Apache Mahout is working towards
building a suite of scalable machine learning libraries for text and
data mining.  Development is active and we are working towards a
0.3 release.  The Mahout community has begun discussing
becoming a TLP and will likely request such a move after the 0.3
release is final.

Added Drew Farris as a committer.
Added Benson Margulies as a committer.

Open Relevance Project

The Open Relevance Project is a new project aimed at providing Lucene
and others tools for judging the quality of search and machine
learning approaches.
We added support for a third test collection: the TREC9 filtering corpus, added
documentation, and improved use with Lucene's benchmarking package.

PyLucene

PyLucene is a Python integration of Lucene Java.  Development is
active.  PyLucene 3.0.1-1 and 2.9.2-1 were released this quarter.

TIKA

Apache Tika is a toolkit for detecting and extracting metadata and
structured text content from various documents using existing parser
libraries. Progress has been steady, with 2 remaining issues in JIRA ready 
for a 0.7 release, which should happen likely within the next month or so.