2009/5/7 Brion Vibber brion@wikimedia.org:
Any interest in helping to roll the new features into the existing Lucene search that's already actively maintained for Wikimedia? This would maximize availability of new functionality and ensure it's used and maintained in the future.
I'm still looking forward to corporate readiness of MediaWiki, which for us basically means (1) good WYSIWYG (2) good search. (2) means Lucene in a box. We hardly care what box.
(The competitor is Confluence. Which is highly usable and an UTTER BASTARD to administer. Though Atlassian are very good at support.)
- d.