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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<document>
<properties>
<title>Lucene TODO List</title>
<authors>
<person email="pmularien@deploy.com" name="Peter Mularien" id="PM"/>
</authors>
</properties>
<body>
<section name="Purpose">
<p>
This document describes the list of tasks on
the plates of the Lucene development team. Tasks are assigned into two
categories: core or non-core.
</p>
</section>
<section name="About Core vs. Non-Core Development">
<p>
Currently the Lucene development team is working on
categorizing change requests into <b>core</b> and <b>non-core</b>
changes.
</p>
<p>
Core changes would entail a change to the search engine
core itself. From Doug Cutting:
<blockquote><i>
"Examples include: file locking to make things
multi-process safe; adding an API for boosting individual documents and fields
values; making the scoring API extensible and public; etc."
</i></blockquote>
</p>
<p>
Non-core changes would not affect the search engine
itself, but would consist instead of projects or components that would
make useful
additions to the core framework. Again, from Doug
Cutting:
<blockquote><i>
"[Examples] include: support for more languages; query
parsers; database storage; crawlers, etc. Whether these belong in the
base distribution is a matter of debate (sometimes hot). My rule of
thumb for including them is their generality: if they are likely to be
useful to a large proportion of Lucene users then they should probably go
in the base distribution. Language support in particular is tricky.
Perhaps we should migrate to a model where the base distribution
includes no analyzers, and supply separate language packages."
</i></blockquote>
</p>
<p>
Change requests will be categorically defined by the
development team (committers) as core or non-core, and a committer will
be assigned responsibility for
coordinating development of the change request. All
change requests should be submitted to one of the Lucene mailing lists, or
through
the <a href="http://issues.apache.org/bugzilla/">Apache
Bugzilla</a> database.
</p>
</section>
<section name="Core Development Changes">
<p>
<i>No change requests classified as core yet!</i>
</p>
</section>
<section name="Non-Core Development Changes">
<p>
<i>No change requests classified as non-core yet!</i>
</p>
</section>
<section name="Unclassified Changes">
<p>
<table cellpadding="5">
<tr>
<th valign="top">Name</th>
<th valign="top">Description</th>
<th valign="top">Links</th>
</tr>
<tr>
<td valign="top">Term Vector support</td>
<td valign="top"></td>
<td valign="top">
<ul>
<li><a
href="http://nagoya.apache.org/eyebrowse/ReadMsg?listName=lucene-dev@jakarta.apache.org&amp;msgNo=273">http://nagoya.apache.org/eyebrowse/ReadMsg?listName=lucene-dev@jakarta.apache.org&amp;msgNo=273</a></li>
<li><a
href="http://nagoya.apache.org/eyebrowse/ReadMsg?listName=lucene-dev@jakarta.apache.org&amp;msgNo=272">http://nagoya.apache.org/eyebrowse/ReadMsg?listName=lucene-dev@jakarta.apache.org&amp;msgNo=272</a></li>
</ul>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td valign="top">Support for Search Term Highlighting</td>
<td valign="top"></td>
<td valign="top">
<ul>
<li><a
href="http://www.geocrawler.org/archives/3/2624/2001/9/50/6553088/">http://www.geocrawler.org/archives/3/2624/2001/9/50/6553088/</a></li>
<li><a
href="http://nagoya.apache.org/eyebrowse/ReadMsg?listName=lucene-dev@jakarta.apache.org&amp;msgId=115271">http://nagoya.apache.org/eyebrowse/ReadMsg?listName=lucene-dev@jakarta.apache.org&amp;msgId=115271</a></li>
<li><a
href="http://www.iq-computing.de/index.asp?menu=projekte-lucene-highlight">http://www.iq-computing.de/index.asp?menu=projekte-lucene-highlight</a></li>
<li><a
href="http://nagoya.apache.org/eyebrowse/BrowseList?listName=lucene-dev@jakarta.apache.org&amp;by=thread&amp;from=56403">http://nagoya.apache.org/eyebrowse/BrowseList?listName=lucene-dev@jakarta.apache.org&amp;by=thread&amp;from=56403</a></li>
</ul>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td valign="top">Better support for hits sorted by things other
than score.</td>
<td valign="top"> An easy, efficient case is to support results
sorted by the order documents were
added to the index. A little harder and less efficient is support
for
results sorted by an arbitrary field.
</td>
<td valign="top">
<ul>
<li><a
href="http://nagoya.apache.org/eyebrowse/ReadMsg?listName=lucene-dev@jakarta.apache.org&amp;msgId=114756">http://nagoya.apache.org/eyebrowse/ReadMsg?listName=lucene-dev@jakarta.apache.org&amp;msgId=114756</a></li>
<li><a
href="http://www.mail-archive.com/lucene-user@jakarta.apache.org/msg00228.html">http://www.mail-archive.com/lucene-user@jakarta.apache.org/msg00228.html</a></li>
</ul>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td valign="top">Add some requested methods:
IndexReader.getIndexedFields</td>
<td valign="top">
String[] IndexReader.getIndexedFields();</td>
<td valign="top">
<ul>
<li><a
href="http://nagoya.apache.org/eyebrowse/ReadMsg?listName=lucene-dev@jakarta.apache.org&amp;msgId=330010">http://nagoya.apache.org/eyebrowse/ReadMsg?listName=lucene-dev@jakarta.apache.org&amp;msgId=330010</a></li>
<li><a
href="http://nagoya.apache.org/eyebrowse/ReadMsg?listName=lucene-dev@jakarta.apache.org&amp;msgId=330009">http://nagoya.apache.org/eyebrowse/ReadMsg?listName=lucene-dev@jakarta.apache.org&amp;msgId=330009</a></li>
</ul>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td valign="top">Add lastModified() method to Directory,
FSDirectory and RamDirectory, so it could be cached in IndexWriter/Searcher
manager.</td>
<td valign="top"></td>
<td valign="top"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td valign="top">Support for adding more than 1 term to the same
position.</td>
<td valign="top">N.B. I think the Finnish lady already
implemented this. It required some pieces of Lucene to be modified. (OG).</td>
<td valign="top"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td valign="top">The ability to retrieve the number of occurrences
not only for a term but also for a Phrase.</td>
<td valign="top"></td>
<td valign="top">
<ul>
<li><a
href="http://www.mail-archive.com/lucene-dev@jakarta.apache.org/msg00101.html">http://www.mail-archive.com/lucene-dev@jakarta.apache.org/msg00101.html</a></li>
</ul></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td valign="top">Che Dong's CJKTokenizer for Chinese, Japanese,
and Korean.</td>
<td valign="top"></td>
<td valign="top">
<ul>
<li><a
href="http://nagoya.apache.org/eyebrowse/ReadMsg?listName=lucene-dev@jakarta.apache.org&amp;msgId=330905">http://nagoya.apache.org/eyebrowse/ReadMsg?listName=lucene-dev@jakarta.apache.org&amp;msgId=330905</a></li>
</ul>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td valign="top">Selecting a language-specific analyzer according
to a locale.</td>
<td valign="top"> Now we rewrite parts of Lucene code in order
to use another analyzer. It will be useful to select analyzer without
touching code.</td>
<td valign="top"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td valign="top">Adding "-encoding" option and encoding-sensitive
methods to tools.</td>
<td valign="top"> Current tools needs minor changes on a
Japanese (and other language) environment: adding an "-encode" option and
argument, using Reader/Writer classes instead of InputStream/OutputStream
classes, etc.</td>
<td valign="top"></td>
</tr>
</table>
</p>
</section>
</body>
</document>