Coderspiel / January 2008
I hardly think Lucene is creating an isolationist culture, nor do we think our project is perfect. What we do agree on is that our time is better spent on figuring out how to make Lucene better, not how to spend our time doing UNIX administration in a virtual server environment. As I said before, we would love to do it, we just need a volunteer. Since n8han is so concerned about us and our use of Google in our little template search box that comes with Forrest and is turned on by default, maybe he would like to volunteer his time to set it up to use Nutch. And don’t give the cop-out that you work on other projects, you don’t buy our “we have other things to do” argument, so why should we buy yours?
I’m all for criticism of Lucene. I dish it out a fair amount, just read the java-dev mailing list (I try to do it in a constructive way), but I would rather it be about something that matters to Lucene, i.e how well it indexes and finds results or how we can improve _______, not about the fact that we don’t have a system administrator volunteering on the project.
