=== Lucene Status Report: September 2013 ===

The Apache Lucene project develops open-source search software.

TLP
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No new PMC members were added in the last quarter.  The most recent PMC
member addition happened in April 2013.

We added one new committer in the last quarter: Cassandra Targett.

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 one release of both Lucene Core and Solr:

 - 4.4.0 on 23 July 2013

In addition, for the first time, we released the PDF version of the
Apache Solr Reference Guide, which is developed in the Lucene Confluence
Wiki. The reference guide's content was donated by LucidWorks Inc.
and incorporated into Lucene's Confluence Wiki on 3 June 2013. The
first PDF release (corresponding to the 4.4.0 Lucene/Solr release)
was made on 29 July 2013 and is available through the ASF mirrors.

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.

In the last quarter we made one release of PyLucene:

 - 4.4.0-1 on 23 August 2013.