Busy Week, Lucene wise
It has been a busy week, Lucene wise; sometimes it seems it is all I can do to keep up with the dev mailing list with work, life, etc. I have managed to work a bit on Lucene 675. Doron Cohen has submitted quite a nice upgrade to the current benchmarking suite that provides expandability, interfaces, threading, scriptability, etc. to the problem. I hope to get that committed soon, as I think it will be quite useful. Also of interest is to me is the discussion of the use of “impacts” for large scale search and how it might mix with the flexible indexing plans that are in the works. I haven’t gotten to the papers cited yet, but they will probably be appearing on my Paper of the Week site soon in an attempt to better understand them. Last, but not least, I submitted a couple of proposals to ApacheCon EU 2007 and hope at least one of them sticks. From the sounds of it, a fair number of Lucene people are hoping to go. I hope they have room for all of us, as it would be great to put some faces to the names on the mailing lists.
You are not alone - it’s getting pretty hard to keep up with Lucene, Solr, Nutch, Hadoop…