On Wed, 2008-08-27 at 21:59 +0200, Bernd Fondermann wrote: > 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.
Agree. > > >> >> 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 :-) jeje, yeah. :) > > 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. Yeah, somebody needs to get the ball rolling. ;) > No doubt your decision is well-planned. > And: You are the PI, so decide about your labs direction. Cheers and yes I started talk about moving droids to the incubator since feburary. > > > 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. Yeah, very well known. > > I plan to release a milestone of Vysper some day, when it implements > the two most basic RFCs. I always wanted to look into Vysper but ATM there is always something else coming up with higher priority. :( salu2 > Bernd > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -- 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]
