Lucene.Net needs your help (or it will die)

I've recently started working with Lucene.net, It's immensly useful but I can understand why they're in trouble. It's not exactly easy to get started, downloading the current branch, get an overview of the state of the project etc etc. I think

if people understood how powerful it really is and it was a little easier to get started it would stand a much better chance of support.

Than being said, it would be nice to have something like lucene refactored to use more of the modern .net features