Hi Dennis, Not too late, I think, just add Nutch + Solr idea to http://wiki.apache.org/general/SummerOfCode2008 on Monday.
Otis -- Sematext -- http://sematext.com/ -- Lucene - Solr - Nutch ----- Original Message ---- From: Dennis Kubes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: nutch-dev@lucene.apache.org Sent: Sunday, March 30, 2008 8:04:39 PM Subject: Re: Why is Nutch not involved in Google Summer of Code - 2008? Ok, I should be able to be a mentor. Besides solr integration are there other ideas for the project? Also is it too late? Dennis Susam Pal wrote: > I believe a couple of hours every week should be enough. Last year, I > signed up as a mentor for OSVDB and we managed to get some useful job > done. However, I hardly spent any time for the whole project. Though a > few people sign up us a mentor but it is mostly a community effort. > The students interact with the community and his assigned mentor > through the mailing list and since the whole community is there to > guide him, there is not much of a burden on the mentor. > > Regards, > Susam Pal > > On Sun, Mar 30, 2008 at 8:55 PM, Dennis Kubes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> How much of a time commitment would we need to make? >> >> Dennis >> >> >> >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> > Hi Susam, >> > >> > Good question, and I'm afraid we may be a little late: >> > http://wiki.apache.org/general/SummerOfCodeMentor >> > >> > I think the main problem is that nobody has time to be the mentor. >> > >> > As for ideas, I think Solr integration would be very nice to have. Solr, >> with its recent support for distributed searching could possibly even become >> the default searcher for Nutch, so we don't have duplicated functionality in >> Nutch. >> > >> > If somebody volunteers to be a mentor, we can try quickly add the project >> idea+mentor name to http://wiki.apache.org/general/SummerOfCode2008 >> > >> > Does any committer have time? >> > Andrzej BialeckiMike CafarellaJérôme CharronDoug CuttingDoğacan >> GüneyPiotr KosiorowskiDennis KubesChris A. MattmannSami SirenJohn Xing >> > >> > Otis >> > -- >> > Sematext -- http://sematext.com/ -- Lucene - Solr - Nutch >> > >> > ----- Original Message ---- >> > From: Susam Pal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> > To: nutch-dev@lucene.apache.org >> > Sent: Saturday, March 22, 2008 9:50:48 AM >> > Subject: Why is Nutch not involved in Google Summer of Code - 2008? >> > >> > Hi, >> > >> > I was wondering why Nutch project is not involved in Google SoC: >> > http://code.google.com/soc/2008/ Many Apache projects including >> > Commons, Hadoop and Mahout have put up the ideas here: >> > http://wiki.apache.org/general/SummerOfCode2008 >> > >> > Wouldn't it be great to have students helping the project out with >> > some of the work which noone has found time for? For example, many >> > people have requested for a POST based authentication support in >> > Nutch. I personally wanted to do it after adding HTTP Authentication >> > Schemes, but unfortunately I could never manage my time well to do it >> > since it would require a good deal of effort. I am sure, there are >> > many such ideas which have not been done because the contributors did >> > not get time. IMHO, it would be great if students are given >> > opportunity to contribute through GSoC 2008. The mentors can guide >> > them through the work for a few hours every week and some valuable >> > work can be done. What do you say? >> > >> > Regards, >> > Susam Pal >> > >> > >> > >>