2013-04 Status Report for the Apache Lucy project The Apache Lucy search engine library provides full-text search for dynamic programming languages. It is a "loose" C port of the Apache Lucene search engine library for Java. ISSUES There are no Board-level issues at this time. RELEASES There have been no releases in the last quarter. The last release is version 0.3.2, released on July 10th, 2012. ACTIVITY Development * Work on the stand-alone C library has progressed. It is in a testable state now and scheduled to be released in the next quarter. * Rework of the test infrastructure. * Improvements to the build system. * Minor progress on the Ruby and Python bindings. * Bug fixes. Mailing lists Judging by the number of messages, participation in the lucy-dev mailing list has increased from last quarter but is still below the long-term average. Traffic on lucy-user has been low but all questions have been answered. Lucy Book Club The Lucy Book Club reached a milestone when the participants made it all the way through the book set out to read, Programming Language Pragmatics, Third Edition by Michael L. Scott. COMMITTER/PMC CHANGES The following new committers have been added during the last quarter: * Kurt Starsinic, 2013-02-15 No new PMC members have been added in the last quarter and since Apache Lucy has graduated from the incubator in March 2012.