I'm interested in helping to update the code if someone gives me guidance.

rainman wrote:

Not sure if full update would make sense because we used a slightly patched version of Lucene 2.4. We would also need some testing to see if the performance (of how we use lucene libraries) is unaffected by the upgrade. However, copying some of the new analyzers and testing them would be a good idea.

mhershberger wrote:

Unassigning default assignments. http://article.gmane.org/gmane.science.linguistics.wikipedia.technical/54734

We won't be updating lucene further, lsearchd has reached end of life.