[Pdx-pm] Apache Lucy inaugural release 0.1.0 (incubating)

[Brady Sullivan]

So there's going to be a full thesis and speech on your endeavour Wednesday? ;)

That's a nice success story to hear about given all your hard work.

Congrats!

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On Jun 2, 2011, at 5:26 PM, Marvin Humphrey <marvin at rectangular.com> wrote:

> Greets,
> 
> Those of you who have been around for a while may be able to dredge from your
> memory vague recollections of a January 2005 meeting with three lightning
> talks, one of them on "Kinosearch".
> 
>  http://mail.pm.org/pipermail/pdx-pm-list/2005-January/002350.html
> 
>  - MarvinHumphrey: Kinosearch, a Perl search engine library
>  - GabrielleRoth: How I Integrated & Automated a Network Management System
>    with Perl
>  - Keith Lofstrom: Dirvish - disk-to-disk based on perl and rsync
> 
> A lot has happened since then.  :)
> 
>  * July 2005 -- "Search::Kinosearch" 0.01 released to CPAN.
>  * January 2006 -- "KinoSearch", a rewrite loosely based on Java Lucene and
>    incorporating considerable XS, released to CPAN.
>  * June 2006 -- Doomed original incarnation of Apache Lucy launched as a
>    Lucene subproject.
>  * 2007-2009 -- KinoSearch receives a torso transplant; all core code
>    rewritten in pure C.
>  * October 2008 -- I move from Oregon to San Diego and go work for Eventful.
>  * July 2010 -- Apache Lucy rebooted, leaves the Lucene umbrella and enters
>    the Apache Incubator with the goal of assimilating the KinoSearch code base
>    and community.
> 
> Two and a half years after moving to San Diego, I'm still working for
> Eventful, and still getting paid to write open source -- about 75% of my time
> goes towards working on Lucy.
> 
> And finally, today:
> 
>  * June 2011 -- Apache Lucy 0.1.0 (incubating) released.
> 
>  http://incubator.apache.org/lucy/
>  http://www.perlmonks.org/?node_id=907882
> 
> The Portland Perl Mongers were very first to hear about KinoSearch, and some
> of its denizens were among the first users and boosters: 
> 
>  http://www.justatheory.com/computers/blog/kinosearch.html
>  http://www.oreillynet.com/onlamp/blog/2006/03/cpan_module_review_kinosearch.html
> 
> Thanks for all the thoughtful and generous feedback I received back then,
> folks.  Look -- I took your advice, and it worked!
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Marvin Humphrey
> 
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