Bug#660826: RFP: Elasticsearch -- Distributed, RESTful, Search Engine built on top of Apache Lucene
Hi Nicholas,
2012/10/28 Nicholas Robinson-Wall <nick@robinson-wall.com>:
>> I would love to see Elasticsearch in Debian. I'm not sure how package
>> maintenance will be done, since they build .deb packages as well.
>
> I make heavy use of Elasticsearch at work and would like to see a package
> in Debian as well. The upstream .deb is generated by Maven using jdeb
> and is consequently full of lintian warnings and errors.
Yeah, that's a problem indeed. I saw it after opening this bug.
>
>> I would volunteer for maintaining the package
>
> As would I. Are you still interested in maintaining, or even comaintaining?
Yes, I'm actually more involved with ES now than I was a while ago. I
almost forgot about it because I didn't see any reaction to this bug.
Until now :)
>
> I plan on looking at the feasibility of a proper (non-jdeb) package for this
> shortly, and changing this to an ITP if it looks doable.
That sounds really nice, thank you. Maybe we can come up with a plan
on how to go further.
> Involving upstream in
> some capacity might also be advisable, given their obvious interest in
> providing Debian support.
Yeah, given how active the ES world is, I'm pretty sure they'd help.
Best regards,
Radu
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