On Fri, 2008-09-12 at 00:03 +0200, Oleg Kalnichevski wrote: > On Thu, 2008-09-11 at 23:40 +0200, Thorsten Scherler wrote: > > On Thu, 2008-09-11 at 19:03 +0100, ant elder wrote: > > > Looks good to me and i agree would be good to mention about Droids. > > > > I started a proposal for incubation, but ATM there is a ongoing > > discussion about how to leave labs and we should wait till it settles. > > > > http://wiki.apache.org/incubator/DroidsProposal > > > > The other thing is the community component for droids. The only initial > > committer ATM besides me is Ryan from lucene/solr, some colleagues of > > mine have posted patches and lucene committer expressed interest for > > sponsoring droids as well (labs list) [1]. > > > > Hi Thorsten > > Community building is precisely the reason why Droids should go through > the process of incubation.
I agree, the recent discussion has started (I guess) because it is the first project leaving labs. > Several people (including myself) expressed > willingness to help with the incubation process, but this may not be > enough to ensure a tong term viability of Droids. Getting new people on > board is indeed the biggest issue. Yes. > > Another concern is that HttpComponents may prove too constraining if you > envisage Droids being more than a framework for web (HTTP) crawlers. Droids definitely is not limit to http. http will be a big part of droids but not any other protocol should be supported in the future. > In > this case Lucene could be a better home for Droids. Maybe we can postpone the decision. Both project can sponsor the incubation and when leaving we decide. Thanks Oleg. salu2 > > Cheers > > Oleg > > > > "The important thing right now for droids is to get people interested > > and committed." [2] > > > > salu2 > > > > [1] http://markmail.org/message/c7g5gxgducqdeeio > > [2] http://markmail.org/message/v7vuyv2dgzbzra7e > > > > > > > > ...ant > > > > > > On Thu, Sep 11, 2008 at 8:08 AM, Oleg Kalnichevski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > wrote: > > > > > > > Folks > > > > > > > > Please do try to find a few minutes to review the report and add bits > > > > that you think are missing. > > > > > > > > We probably should also mention the ongoing discussion about the > > > > possibility of Droids moving out of the Labs and joining the project as > > > > a subproject > > > > > > > > Oleg > > > > > > > > On Mon, 2008-09-01 at 22:11 +0200, Oleg Kalnichevski wrote: > > > > > Folks > > > > > > > > > > I put together a draft of the board report. Feel free to contribute > > > > > more > > > > > content / make corrections: > > > > > > > > > > http://wiki.apache.org/HttpComponents/BoardReportSept2008 > > > > > > > > > > Cheers > > > > > > > > > > Oleg > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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]
