Ernesto, a long-time contributor of patches, is now an official developer. Yay!
The next version of OpenCms -- version 6 -- will include Lucene support internally. This module, then, will be obsolete for version 6. Where appropriate, we will try to assist the OpenCms team in porting functionality from our code to OpenCms' code (the two are unrelated). This may entail changing our license from GPL to LGPL.
dkuntze has been added to the project as a developer. Amongst other things, he will be working on the PDF indexing code.