What is the philosophy about the 3.x branch? This is an all-new feature
added to 3.x.

Andrzej Bialecki (JIRA) wrote:
>       [ https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LUCENE-2482?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:all-tabpanel ]
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> Andrzej Bialecki  resolved LUCENE-2482.
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>      Resolution: Fixed
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> Committed in rev. 998948.
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>    
>> Index sorter
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>>                  Key: LUCENE-2482
>>                  URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LUCENE-2482
>>              Project: Lucene - Java
>>           Issue Type: New Feature
>>           Components: contrib/*
>>     Affects Versions: 3.1
>>             Reporter: Andrzej Bialecki
>>             Assignee: Andrzej Bialecki
>>              Fix For: 3.1
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>>          Attachments: indexSorter.patch
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>> A tool to sort index according to a float document weight. Documents with high weight are given low document numbers, which means that they will be first evaluated. When using a strategy of "early termination" of queries (see TimeLimitedCollector) such sorting significantly improves the quality of partial results.
>> (Originally this tool was created by Doug Cutting in Nutch, and used norms as document weights - thus the ordering was limited by the limited resolution of norms. This is a pure Lucene version of the tool, and it uses arbitrary floats from a specified stored field).
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On 2010-09-21 06:20, Lance Norskog wrote:
> What is the philosophy about the 3.x branch? This is an all-new feature
> added to 3.x.

FWIW, I plan to port this tool to trunk.

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