Re: I would like to take over the PECL Solr extension

Thank you very much! My next steps: - Start figuring out what should happen in the 1.0.3 release - Start thinking about the 2.0 - Do some benchmarks against the pure-PHP Solr project - Get ready to move to git - [Most importantly] Start looking for other collaborators for the project On Sun, Dec 30, 2012 at 10:23 PM, Ferenc Kovacs <tyra3l@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > On Fri, Oct 19, 2012 at 6:22 PM, Eric Caron <eric.caron@gmail.com> wrote: > >> I have not heard from sole project maintainer Israel Ekpo (iekpo@php.net) >> since July 7th. The last email from him was: >> >> Good morning Eric, >> > >> > This sounds like a great idea. Do you have access to commit to the PECL >> > source control? If not, you can send them to me as patches and I will >> check >> > them in. Thanks for offering to help. Some of the tasks require >> building on >> > windows. Others require changing the internal architecture of the >> > extension. Let's get together and chat. What city do you live in? What >> time >> > zone are you located? What are your availabities for a quick chat and >> > review of the bugs? >> > Sent via BlackBerry from T-Mobile >> > >> >> 5 emails since then have gone unanswered. He has not shown any activity on >> his other outlets since that time either (https://twitter.com/israelekpo, >> https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=62835) >> >> Since then, Lucene/Solr 4 have some out and, with it, many of the 3.x >> deprecated features have been removed and 4.x yields errors when using the >> extension. I've been addressing as many of the bugs as I can in my GitHub >> fork (https://github.com/ecaron/php-pecl-solr), and have been actively >> maintaining the dll extension (https://github.com/ecaron/php_solr.dll). >> It >> is likely that previous users of the extension are switching to Solarium ( >> http://www.solarium-project.org/), and I feel the community >> is best >> served >> by having 2 well maintained Solr/PHP offerings. The 1.x branch needs an >> update, and a 2.x needs to be started to compensate for functions invoking >> parameters that have been completely removed from the core (1.x branch >> will >> simply ignore them.) >> >> Hoping this satisfactorily states my case, >> Eric Caron (@ecaron) >> > > Hi Eric, > > I've opened your pecl account request and assigned you to the solr package. > > -- > Ferenc Kovács > @Tyr43l - http://tyrael.hu >