Lucene is maintained by a team of volunteer developers.

• Doug Cutting (cutting at apache.org)

  Lucene was originally written in Doug's spare time during late 1997 and early 1998. Doug had previously written search engines at Xerox's Palo Alto Research Center (PARC), Apple, and Excite@Home, and authored several information retrieval papers and patents.

  Doug currently works for Grand Central.

  Please do not email Doug directly about Lucene. Instead use the Jakarta-Lucene mailing lists.

• Otis Gospodnetic (otis at apache.org)
• Brian Goetz (briangoetz at apache.org)
• Scott Ganyo (scottganyo at apache.org)
• Eugene Gluzberg (drag0n at apache.org)
• Matt Tucker (mtucker at apache.org)
• Cory Hubert (clhubert at apache.org)
• Dave Kor (davekor at apache.org)
• Jon Stevens (jon at latchkey.com)
• Tal Dayan (zapta at apache.org)

• Josh Bloch
• Ted Husted