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Solr, Lucene, Apache and You!
• Lucene and Solr are the guts of Enterprise Search
• Who develops them? Where did they come from? How do we know they are safe to use? Will they be around in 5 years' time? How do we get support for them? Bugfixes?
Lucene Potted History
1999: Created by Doug Cutting
2001: Donated to the ASF
2005: ASF “top level project”
photo by Tim Bray; http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Doug-Cutting.JPG
Solr Potted History
2004: Created by Yonik Seeley
2006: Donated to the ASF
2007: Graduated from incubator
2010: Merged with Lucene
photo by tomdz; http://www.flickr.com/photos/tomdz/2038233746/
Apache Potted History1994: Web server started
1996: number one web server
1999: Foundation formed
2011:
2663 committers
370 members
94 projects
57 incubating projects
Donated
Top level
ASF
Graduated from incubator
Committers
Members Projects
Apache
The Apache Software Foundation provides organizational, legal, and financial support for a broad range of open source software projects. The Foundation provides an established framework for intellectual property and financial contributions that simultaneously limits contributors potential legal exposure. Through a collaborative and meritocratic development process, Apache projects deliver enterprise-grade, freely available software products that attract large communities of users. The pragmatic Apache License makes it easy for all users, commercial and individual, to deploy Apache products.
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Community
http://people.apache.org/map.html
Meritocracy in Action
User Contributor Committer Member
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How to get involved
• Read the lists
• Ask questions
• Offer patches
• Engage with the community