[Snowball-discuss] snowball maintenance, a review

[Grant Ingersoll]

On Feb 22, 2013, at 7:54 AM, Damian Janowski wrote:
> 
> Unfortunately I haven't had enough time to understand how to properly
> fix my Spanish issues, but I want to fix them and I'll post a patch as
> soon as I achieve anything.
> 
> By the way, I proposed a move to GitHub not because I think SVN is
> 'old and thus bad', but because GitHub as a platform makes it much
> easier for many developers to contribute to projects. That said,
> Richard clarified that he is able and willing to port patches
> submitted through GitHub to the official SVN repository, so maybe this
> is no longer an important issue.

Would the project ever consider moving to the Apache Software Foundation?  I think you would find a lot of willing volunteers there who would help with sharing the load of answering questions and maintaining the code base.

I'd be willing to shepherd the process of bringing it in through incubation.  I can very much see it as a standalone, top level project (i.e. snowball.apache.org), as Snowball is such a fundamental part of so many language processing tools these days, I'd hate to see it languish.  Apache does, of course, come with a different process for development (meritocratic-based, i.e. those who do the work, make the decisions).  

-Grant Ingersoll

(FYI, I'm a Lucene/Solr/Mahout committer and also involved somewhat w/ OpenNLP and Apache Drill)
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