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