--- Doug Cutting <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > I, too, am looking forward to this, but I am wondering what that > will > > do to Kelvin Tan's recent contribution, especially since I saw that > > both MapReduce and Kelvin's code change how FetchListEntry works. > If > > merging mapred to trunk means losing Kelvin's changes, then I > suggest > > one of Nutch developers evaluates Kelvin's modifications and, if > they > > are good, commits them to trunk, and then makes the final > pre-mapred > > release (e.g. release-0.8). > > It won't lose Kelvin's patch: it will still be a patch to 0.7.
Ah, right, we could always make a 0.7.* release from release 0.7. > What I worry about is the alternate scenario: that Kelvin & others > invest a lot of effort making this work with 0.7, while the > mapred-based > code diverges even further. It would be best if Kelvin's patch is > ported to the mapred branch sooner rather than later, then maintained > there. I agree. I'll actually see Kelvin in person tomorrow, so we'll see if this is something he can do. It looks like he added some much-needed functionality in his patch, so it'd good to keep it. Otis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Simpy -- http://www.simpy.com/ -- Find it. Tag it. Share it.