http://lucene.grantingersoll.com/2008/09/12/the-difficulty-inherent-in-managing-an-open-source-community-the-open-road-the-business-and-politics-of-open-source-by-matt-asay-cnet-news/ Thoughts on Apache Lucene, Mahout, Solr, Tika and Nutch Sat, 10 Sep 2011 20:15:34 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://lucene.grantingersoll.com/2008/09/12/the-difficulty-inherent-in-managing-an-open-source-community-the-open-road-the-business-and-politics-of-open-source-by-matt-asay-cnet-news/comment-page-1/#comment-6123 Bob Carpenter Wed, 17 Sep 2008 18:24:27 +0000 http://lucene.grantingersoll.com/?p=104#comment-6123 I had a similar experience, but I wouldn't have described it the same way. I refactored the approximate search to be about twice as fast, but didn't have the energy to follow the How to Contribute guidelines. So I sent the whole patch to the mailing list, and Otis eventually plugged it or a variant of it in. I don't see how the Lucene project could've made contributing any easier given its scope. The unit testing and build frameworks in place with Ant are also super-easy to use, which is probably the biggest hurdle in most projects. I had a similar experience, but I wouldn’t have described it the same way. I refactored the approximate search to be about twice as fast, but didn’t have the energy to follow the How to Contribute guidelines. So I sent the whole patch to the mailing list, and Otis eventually plugged it or a variant of it in. I don’t see how the Lucene project could’ve made contributing any easier given its scope. The unit testing and build frameworks in place with Ant are also super-easy to use, which is probably the biggest hurdle in most projects.

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