Andrzej Bialecki wrote:
I would be disappointed by this move - language identifier is an important component in Nutch. Now the mere fact that it's bundled with Nutch encourages its proper maintenance. If there is enough drive in terms of willingness and long-term commitment it would make sense to move it to a separate project on its own (or maybe as a part of Jakarta Commons), but moving it into a catch-all purely optional category like Lucene contrib would increase risks that it slides into oblivion...
In 1.9 and beyond the plan is to build and distribute the contrib with Lucene. So 'ant test' in Lucene should test contrib too, etc. The point is to make sure that this stuff is maintained, but not to merge it into the core. So stuff in contrib should not slide into oblivion.
Doug
