Status of Solr and Lucene in Debian

[Thomas Koch]

tomas at tuxteam.de:
> On Sun, May 20, 2012 at 07:58:19PM +0200, Thomas Koch wrote:
> > tomas at tuxteam.de:
> > > > But Solr is orphaned for a while now with nobody interested to
> > > > maintain
> 
> [...]
> 
> > I started learning the Java ecosystem myself by upgrading Solr and
> > packaging Hadoop. However learning Debian packaging and then Java
> > packaging isn't done in a couple of hours. On the other hand you'll
> > really learn a lot about the system that you're using.
> 
> On a very short note now, more perhaps in four weeks (I'm away and no
> net connectivity til 23 of July).
> 
> My boss offered that I work on that for 1..2 hours a week on company
> time. I'm aware that it will be far more than this at the beginning, so
> the difference will go to my account. But I'm seriously considering to
> take the plunge, unless someone beats me to it
> 
> More at the end of July
> 
> Regards
> -- tomás
Hi Tomas,

thank you for your motivation. However James Page is already working on 
updates Solr/Lucene packages. But I'm sure that there can be found something 
to work on in collaboration.

Regards,

Thomas Koch, http://www.koch.ro