John ,
thanks for understanding me. :)
I was suggesting a mile stone plan, that needn't be to detailed and agile, but this would help to don't lose the target.(1) Use wiki as the CENTRAL place to register contribution proposals with contact info and expected finishing time.
This is to keep potential developers well informed and avoid
"reinventing of wheels". I used to spend weeks to read through nutch-dev
mailing list archives. It was not very efficient, for sf.net is rather slow.
We can call it visions or planed development as well.
I had create this page, it would be great if others would extend, correct or restructure the page.
http://www.nutch.org/cgi-bin/twiki/view/Main/Development
(2) Have SIGs (special interest group): jmx, topic filtering, page ranking, parameter tuning, gui ends, engine operation, grand search, niche search, local search, etc. You got the idea,
I love this idea.
We already had tried that and the reason was that the work of a group wasn't transparent to other developers.
There already was a context extractor team early this year, with a own mailinglist and cvs. Nothing of this work comes to the nutch cvs. ;-/.
So I suggest until we haven't to much traffic to use mail subject prefixes like [jmx] or [filtering] in combination with the wiki page where people just announce to join a SIG.
Sound great!
People tend to specilize and can't be expected conversant on all topics at the same level. Experts should take the lead and, often time, may have to elaborate more about your good stuff. Each SIG can have its own thread on wiki.
Yes!
(3) Make ready-to-use rpm/deb packages for linux and installer for Windows.
At least it is not only the rpm we required a more self management of nutch.
Right! I already write some stuff about the plugin system at January or February.(4) Create documents for developers and non-developers.
Howto and FAQ are among the best "sells" pamphlets. Nutch still does not have.
I would offer to write a how to use the plugin system, but it would be good to get support by a native english speaker.
Thank you John for some good ideas to solve the problems I was trying to address!
Stefan --------------------------------------------------------------- enterprise information technology consulting open technology: http://www.media-style.com open source: http://www.weta-group.net open discussion: http://www.text-mining.org
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