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

Nick Wallace (fyb3roptik@php.net) was also interested in participating to the development of the solr extension, I think you should get in touch and work together on the ext. On Mon, Dec 31, 2012 at 5:19 PM, Eric Caron <eric.caron@gmail.com> wrote: > 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 >> > > -- Ferenc Kovács @Tyr43l - http://tyrael.hu