The difficulty inherent in managing an open-source community
I’ve heard the open-source search engine, Simplexo, come up twice in conversation this week, and so was interested to dig a deeper into what Simplexo offers. My own company, Alfresco, has worked with Lucene, another open-source search engine, for the past few years and has been both pleased and disappointed with its capabilities, but I’ve been particularly frustrated by how hard it is to contribute code to Lucene.
The Alfresco development team has put Lucene into serious production, and has found a range of areas in which it falls down. To remedy this, our development team has made a wide range of improvements and fixes to the Lucene code. At one time the team tried repeatedly to contribute the code back to the Lucene project, only to have it fall on deaf ears.
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