[hibernate-dev] New project, new group-id: org.hibernate.lucene-modules

[Sanne Grinovero]

On 17 February 2017 at 09:42, Gunnar Morling <gunnar at hibernate.org> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> That's a great initiative.

Thanks! Credit to Gustavo - he created the project idea - I actually
failed to follow
up for a long time.

I wasn't fully convinced, especially as we were waiting for directions
on the area,
but convinced now that we should at least split it out even if we don't know
the recommended modules format and WildFly strategies going forward.

> Have you considered to make this a more
> general effort, esp. should this rather be a repo / group id under the
> WildFly reign instead of Hibernate?

Yes, the "org.hibernate" organization prefix is a deliberate choice.

The main reason is that we're the ones maintaining and - hopefully - releasing
this module set.
Proper organization namespacing is important within the Maven modules world.

N.B. the modules id still is "org.apache.lucene": only the Maven group id
is prefixed by the Hibernate id. My intent is really to "sign" the provenance
only, while the package purpose is general.

>
> As you say, the modules may be interesting to people not using
> Hibernate Search, so a group id not tied to Hibernate would be less
> confusing: org. wildfly.modules.lucene.

In an ideal world, I would contribute this to the Lucene project:
what people need is such a moduleset for each single Lucene release,
so you might as well have the Lucene release process provide one.

But I think it's premature for that; not least because:
 - I doubt this format is  yet popular enough to be a compelling
feature for the Lucene team
 - we need them to be "retro-active", i.e. to re-package existing
Lucene versions
 - should we use the patch format instead? A feature pack? A fraction? etc..

Many such details need to be ironed out, then I'd be happy to propose
it to the Lucene
project for inclusion, but this might take some year yet and we need
this right now.

-- Sanne

>
> --Gunnar
>
>
>
> 2017-02-16 20:17 GMT+01:00 Sanne Grinovero <sanne at hibernate.org>:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I'm proposing the use of the `org.hibernate.lucene-modules` group id
>> for the stuff which we'll be releasing from this repository:
>>  - https://github.com/hibernate/lucene-modules
>>
>> Context: Hibernate Search has been packaging Apache Lucene as a
>> WildFly module, essentially including the Lucene modules as part of
>> the Hibernate Search modules.
>>
>> We want to separate these modules, for various reasons; the main
>> driver being the build of Infinispan is much simpler if they can
>> source the Lucene modules "out of band" from the Search release
>> version. Sometimes we need some more flexibility, and it's getting
>> close to mission impossible to workaround the tight coupling.
>>
>> This might also help other projects use Lucene when not necessarily
>> interested in Hibernate Search, or in using the Lucene versions which
>> Search would allow (a subset of the Lucene releases).
>>
>> Finally, since we release these modules with name "org.apache.lucene",
>> it might just make sense for them to be independent and just contain
>> Apache Lucene.
>>
>> If you're interested more details, have a look at PR number 1:
>>  - https://github.com/hibernate/lucene-modules/pull/1/files
>>
>> In Hibernate Search this would imply:
>>  - https://github.com/Sanne/hibernate-search/commit/a271d43d15b6af508ea693b3ccbe720604f9e1c8
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Sanne
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