Andrzej Bialecki wrote: > Nitin Borwankar wrote: > >> Hi all, >> >> First an intro. I am another Nutch newbie and am finding 0.7.2 to be >> quite an effective single machine crawler. > > [..] > >> The ability to keep db formats compatible would be nice to allow reuse >> of existing results but is not necessary. >> > > > > That's probably not going to happen - each branch has specific > requirements from the db and segment formats, which are incompatible. > However, given enough interest we could implement converters, even > bi-directional. > > >> As a potential developer I would like to volunteer for the ongoing >> maintenance and evolution of 0.7.2 as an effective single machine >> crawler. >> > > > That's excellent! I imagine the procedure to get you involved would be > something like this: > > * start collecting issues related to maintenance, bugfixes or > improvements of that branch,
what is the mechanism for this collection process - do we create a separate email list, a separate alias ... or everyone just sends me email ( this may get messy fast ). > > * create JIRA issues, plus start collecting patches, tested and ready > for committing. One of the existing developers will commit them on > your behalf. > sounds good. > * after a while we would consider giving you committer rights so that > you could work directly with the code. > fair enough. Do we take this offline for further thrashing out ? Or continue here ? Nitin Borwankar > >> Consider this a proposal to maintain two separate versions by continuing >> bug fix versions of 0.7 until one of two things happen >> >> a) 0.8 evolves to something satisfactory for use as also as a single >> machine search engine and everyone is happy moving to it >> b) a critical mass of developers steps forward to support the ongoing >> development of 0.7.2 into say Nutch-lite always and only meant for >> single machine use. >> > > I do hope that option a) becomes a reality sooner rather than later. > But if there is sufficient interest (and enough developers) in > developing 0.7 branch, then go for it - keeping in mind, though, that > eventually these code bases will diverge so much that maintaining them > will require two mostly separate teams ... > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys - and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ Nutch-general mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nutch-general
