We invite you to take a look at the new OSAF project at http://pylucene.osafoundation.org

PyLucene is a Python wrapper around the Lucene indexing and search engine. It was developed by Andi Vajda at OSAF for use in Chandler. PyLucene is a way of letting Python use Lucene to do full text indexing.

There has been a lot of interest and feedback from the Python developer community that it would be nice to be able to get this functionality without having to deal with all of the Chandler source tree. This interest lead naturally to the idea of a separate project.

During the weekly OSAF IRC Office Hour on June 23, 2003 there was a discussion with Andi, the original developer of PyLucene about its origins, scope, and current status. You can review this conversation on the IRC log (from 11:00 to noon).

Chandler’s repository enables concurrent and versioned access to the items it stores. The repository keeps the history of all changes made to items over their lifetime. This history can be used to replay or revert changes made to an item. It makes undoing committed transactions possible. It makes automated merging of different versions possible.

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We have opened a search for someone to join the OSAF team as Program Manager. Please see OSAF’s Employment page for details on this and the other positions we have open.

OSAF chose a non-locking transaction model for Chandler’s repository. One advantage of that choice is that items are never locked. Read the rest of this entry »