On Wed, Aug 27, 2008 at 19:46, Thorsten Scherler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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.
There are so many projects nowadays at Apache, that it is likely for a tool to fit more than one. >> >> 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. Hope, you can convert some contributors to committers :-) > 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. I'm just being interested and asking since you'd be the first lab to go into incubation. No doubt your decision is well-planned. And: You are the PI, so decide about your labs direction. > 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. Well, you could always release it on your own terms, simply not out of the Labs project. There are some very sucessfull tools around here at the ASF, which were never official Apache release. A well-known example is Andy Clark's nekohtml. I plan to release a milestone of Vysper some day, when it implements the two most basic RFCs. Bernd --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
