diff --git a/dev-tools/eclipse/dot.classpath b/dev-tools/eclipse/dot.classpath
index 673f754f8f2..d0895779880 100644
--- a/dev-tools/eclipse/dot.classpath
+++ b/dev-tools/eclipse/dot.classpath
@@ -46,6 +46,8 @@
   <classpathentry kind="src" path="lucene/benchmark/src/java"/>
   <classpathentry kind="src" path="lucene/benchmark/src/test"/>
   <classpathentry excluding="src" including="conf/**" kind="src" path="lucene/benchmark"/>
+  <classpathentry kind="src" path="lucene/classification/src/java"/>
+  <classpathentry kind="src" path="lucene/classification/src/test"/>
   <classpathentry kind="src" path="lucene/facet/src/java"/>
   <classpathentry kind="src" path="lucene/facet/src/examples"/>
   <classpathentry kind="src" path="lucene/facet/src/test"/>
diff --git a/dev-tools/scripts/smokeTestRelease.py b/dev-tools/scripts/smokeTestRelease.py
index 5bb85a7642b..0932a6f7b15 100644
--- a/dev-tools/scripts/smokeTestRelease.py
+++ b/dev-tools/scripts/smokeTestRelease.py
@@ -441,7 +441,7 @@ def verifyUnpacked(project, artifact, unpackPath, version, tmpDir):
 
   if project == 'lucene':
     # TODO: clean this up to not be a list of modules that we must maintain
-    extras = ('analysis', 'benchmark', 'codecs', 'core', 'demo', 'docs', 'facet', 'grouping', 'highlighter', 'join', 'memory', 'misc', 'queries', 'queryparser', 'sandbox', 'spatial', 'suggest', 'test-framework', 'licenses')
+    extras = ('analysis', 'benchmark', 'classification' 'codecs', 'core', 'demo', 'docs', 'facet', 'grouping', 'highlighter', 'join', 'memory', 'misc', 'queries', 'queryparser', 'sandbox', 'spatial', 'suggest', 'test-framework', 'licenses')
     if isSrc:
       extras += ('build.xml', 'common-build.xml', 'module-build.xml', 'ivy-settings.xml', 'backwards', 'tools', 'site')
   else:
diff --git a/lucene/build.xml b/lucene/build.xml
index 5827a8b783e..001b1aaf132 100644
--- a/lucene/build.xml
+++ b/lucene/build.xml
@@ -243,6 +243,7 @@
       <check-missing-javadocs dir="build/docs/analyzers-stempel" level="class"/>
       <check-missing-javadocs dir="build/docs/analyzers-uima" level="class"/>
       <check-missing-javadocs dir="build/docs/benchmark" level="class"/>
+      <check-missing-javadocs dir="build/docs/classification" level="class"/>
       <check-missing-javadocs dir="build/docs/codecs" level="class"/>
       <check-missing-javadocs dir="build/docs/core" level="class"/>
       <check-missing-javadocs dir="build/docs/demo" level="class"/>
diff --git a/lucene/classification/src/java/org/apache/lucene/classification/package.html b/lucene/classification/src/java/org/apache/lucene/classification/package.html
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..fa7ad55c739
--- /dev/null
+++ b/lucene/classification/src/java/org/apache/lucene/classification/package.html
@@ -0,0 +1,23 @@
+<!--
+ Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
+ contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file distributed with
+ this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership.
+ The ASF licenses this file to You under the Apache License, Version 2.0
+ (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with
+ the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+
+     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+
+ Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+ distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+ WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+ See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+ limitations under the License.
+-->
+<html>
+<body>
+Uses already seen data (the indexed documents) to classify new documents.
+Currently only contains a (simplistic) Lucene based Naive Bayes classifier 
+but more implementations will be added in the future.
+</body>
+</html>
