I'm interesting in supporting Droids Too.

2010/11/18 Chapuis Bertil <[email protected]>:
> I agree. We have to plan a little bit what has to be done and to take some
> decisions about which features should be implemented in the next droids
> releases. Once the targets are set we can create jira (improvement, bug,
> ...) tickets to fullfill the targets. Personally I think Jira is a really
> good tool. Unfortunately at the moment we don't really use it to schedule
> the changes and set priorities.
>
> IMHO one of the primary requirements is to clean the trunk: for exemple, the
> work which has been done in the droids-crawler project has to be integrated
> with the droids-core project. Then making some refactoring and implementing
> some new features will be much easier.
>
>
> On Thu, Nov 18, 2010 at 3:48 PM, Paul Rogalinski <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> Hello,
>>
>> this would make two of us. We do also use Droids for an Internet (not
>> Intranet) crawler project and would agree to contribute reference
>> impelmentation and improvements to the API to fix some shortcomings of the
>> current version.
>>
>> Right now I am ending up with overwriting many core classes to fix issues
>> with caching, proxy support, url acceptance / rejection vs. filter chains
>> and more. I would like to discuss if those changes would make sense in the
>> Droids-core or if they are supposed to be implemented on top of the Droids
>> API and reference crawler implementation. This has a lot to do with the
>> project philosophy and is not for me to decide.
>>
>> So yes, I am offering my help - but Droids still needs an active project
>> maintainer role. Opening Jira tasks and committing patches won't do any good
>> until then and feels like wasted energy to me. Please correct me if I am
>> wrong.
>>
>> Kind Regards,
>> Paul.
>>
>>
>> tobr wrote:
>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> In our company, we are using droids as a crawler for intranet and extranet
>>> applications.
>>> We are also highly interested in supporting the project.
>>> But with the lack of community support by not answering questions on the
>>> mailing list,
>>> we recently did not even know, if the project is still alive.
>>>
>>> Tobias
>>
>>
>



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