[hibernate-dev] Hibernate Search 3.1

[Emmanuel Bernard]

I think Hibernate Search should go for 3.1 from now one in trunk:
  - Lucene 2.3 brings some interesting enhancements that we could  
benefit from.
  - Sanne has some interesting feedbacks on new reader strategies  
(warming up readers), as well as some alternative strategies to speed  
up mass indexing.
  - Hardy started working on the Null marker value and this requires  
some compatibility changes
  - John worked on adding TermVectors
  - Nick has been working on Similarity, which is a big feature and  
deserve some testing and feedbacks.
  - I have some additional idea to move some API to a higher level

Do not restrain from breaking changes, but please discuss them here  
first before using the butchery knife :)

If you have a todo list for Hibernate Search or if you think some  
Hibernate Search areas should be enhanced / reworked, feel free to  
discuss your ideas here.

On a less technical note, Hibernate Search has some very good  
adoption both standalone and together with JBoss Seam. I had a lot of  
tremendous feedback at JBoss World Orlando. We even won a JBoss  
Innovation Awards ( well Alintec did ;) ).

Keep up the good work!

Emmanuel