WHEREAS, the Board of Directors deems it to be in the best
interests of the Foundation and consistent with the
Foundation's purpose to establish a Project Management
Committee charged with the creation and maintenance of
open-source software related to the Lucene and search technologies,
for distribution at no charge to the public.
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, that a Project Management
Committee (PMC), to be known as the "Apache Lucene PMC", be and
hereby is established pursuant to Bylaws of the Foundation; and
be it further
RESOLVED, that the Apache Lucene PMC be and hereby is
responsible for the creation and maintenance of software for
Lucene and for related software components, based on
software licensed to the Foundation; and be it further
RESOLVED, that the office of "Vice President, Apache Lucene" be
and hereby is created, the person holding such office to serve
at the direction of the Board of Directors as the chair of the
Apache Lucene PMC, and to have primary responsibility for
management of the projects within the scope of responsibility
of the Apache Lucene PMC; and be it further
RESOLVED, that the persons listed immediately below be and
hereby are appointed to serve as the initial members of the
Apache Lucene PMC:
Doug Cutting,
Otis Gospodnetic,
Erik Hatcher,
Daniel Naber,
Christoph Goller,
Mark Harwood,
Scott Ganyo
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that Doug Cutting
be and hereby is appointed to the office of Vice
President, Apache Lucene, to serve in accordance with and
subject to the direction of the Board of Directors and the
Bylaws of the Foundation until death, resignation, retirement,
removal or disqualification, or until a successor is appointed;
and be it further
RESOLVED, that the initial Apache Lucene PMC be and hereby is
tasked with the creation of a set of bylaws intended to
encourage open development and increased participation of
the Apache Lucene Project, in the Java language as well as
others, and be it further
RESOLVED, that the initial Apache Search PMC be and hereby is
tasked with the migration and rationalization of the Jakarta
Lucene subproject, and be it further
RESOLVED, that all responsibility pertaining to the Jakarta
Lucene sub-project and encumbered upon the Jakarta PMC are
hereafter discharged.