Hey, So I am admittedly a noob with Nutch, but have spent some time digging through the source code. I am just curious if anyone has talked about, in future developments of Nutch, replacing the whole way we register plugins? I ask because I am using Nutch on a project with Maven. At the moment I have to copy a whole bunch of JAR files with there plugin.xml files into a certain directory on build, which is fine, but is kind of breaking the whole Maven paradigm. It would be nice to have some sort of Maven repository where plugins lived, and then wire up which plugins I want to use using some kind of DI framework, like Spring or Guice. Then instead of writing XML Plugin Descriptor Files, every plugin could write a class extending PluginDescriptor and register its self with the PluginRepo, or something of the sort.
Also, I have never contributed to an open source project, so if I am being an ass I don't mean to be. Just would love to help make a great tool better in any way. Best, PJ Herring
