Well, it's always nice to have people drop by. We don't see much traffic here. But since Lucene's part of the apache.org collection of projects, I think I'd ask over
Here (Other Open Source Products).
The secret of how to be miserable is to constantly expect things are going to happen the way that they are "supposed" to happen.
You can have faith, which carries the understanding that you may be disappointed. Then there's being a willfully-blind idiot, which virtually guarantees it.