All,
We're getting some increasing deltas btwn the 2.0 and trunk branches. Many
of these are my fault; I gave up making updates to 2.0 around April/May, I
think.
What would people think of punting on some of the desired goals of 2.0 (e.g.
chaining parsers, more structured but still simple metadata) and releasing 2.0
soonish...say 2.0-BETA end of September?
We've been able to make some major improvements to Tika without breaking
backwards compatibility. We _might_ be able to do that with the outstanding
issues for 2.0 when someone has time.
We could also do the upgrade to jdk 8 with Tika 2.0.
If this sounds reasonable, I propose creating a 1.x branch from trunk for 1.x
maintenance and then reworking trunk to the 2.x structure that Bob Paulin so
elegantly worked out. I figure we can either copy/paste from trunk to the
current 2.x (and _hope_ we get all the updates) or use Bob's 2.0 as a model for
restructuring trunk. At this point, I'd prefer the second option. The key
here is to switch "trunk" to 2.0 so that we all have the mindset that 2.0 is
what we're focused on.
The main benefit of this proposal is that we'd have a more modular Tika soon.
What do you think?
Best,
Tim
