On Wed, 2008-08-27 at 18:52 +0200, Bernd Fondermann wrote: > On Wed, Aug 27, 2008 at 14:06, Thorsten Scherler > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Wed, 2008-03-12 at 16:21 +0100, Thorsten Scherler wrote: > > ... > >> The Apache HttpComponents project are willing to sponsor the project. > > Why HC and not, say, Lucene/Nutch?
The hc project expressed their interest in droids from the beginning [3]. They planed to provide a http-spider as you can see from [4] but nobody found the time to implement it. This are the reasons why HC. Nutch/lucene did not express any interest, furthermore droids is not about search engine at all. It is a robot framework so lucene/nutch does not fit, I do not want to limit the focus of droids to search engines. > > >> I > >> think they still has to formalize this with an official vote but there > >> is interest [1]. > > I see you are the sole committer on this lab and there is little > documentation. I am till now the only one committing to the code that is right, however as you can see from the issue tracker there have been outside contributions. Further in my current work droids is starting to get recognition which will help to develop it. Regarding the documentation [5] I think that is not that little, like most open source projects documentation always can be enhanced but IMO there is enough to get started. > > Do you think this is sustainable enough to go into > incubation? You may review the archive since we had already this point covered with a former discussion on this list. However if I do not think it is sustainable I would not plan to move it. In lab I doubt to build a community around the code since not releasing is a show stopper for many company use cases, but yes I think the code and the idea behind it can attract some people. > > I'm just asking because these are the reasons for not taking Vysper to > the incubator in its current state. I have not looked into Vysper so I can not judge about this. > > > All the best and good luck in incubation! > (And please adjust your lab status as soon as you arrive there :-) Thanks and as soon as the status changes I will update it. > > Bernd > [3] http://labs.markmail.org/message/uth73pmi7q2dwo3j?q=Norbert [4] http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/hc-dev/200501.mbox/[EMAIL PROTECTED] [5] http://people.apache.org/~thorsten/droids/ -- Thorsten Scherler thorsten.at.apache.org Open Source Java consulting, training and solutions --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
