On Dec 20, 2004, at 9:43 PM, Otis Gospodnetic wrote:
Sounds ok to me. There is no mention of Nutch, though. If Nutch is going through Incubator with its own proposal, maybe we need to say that. Let's give time developers in other time zones to add themselves to the list.
Sam Ruby recommended that we not emphasize making search.apache.org an umbrella project:
Sam Ruby had the following advice:
The board has a bias against self-referential definitions (the 'foo' project is for managing software related to the 'foo' project - believe it or not, this happens all too often). So naming the proposed project something like search is a good idea.
The board tends to prefer projects whose scopes don't overlap with other projects. That does not appear to be a problem here. In other cases, this involves highlighting differences in technical approaches taken by two "competing" projects.
Finally, some members of the board have a strong bias against umbrella projects. My advice here is to not emphasize this aspect of the proposal. Overall, the fact that this reduces the size of the Jakarta project umbrella, those with this bias will be happy.
While I'm confident that Nutch will be accepted for incubation and then migrate out of incubation, this is not a done deal. We have a compelling reason to bring Lucene to TLP without Nutch. Nutch has a compelling reason to incubate without worrying about its future home (which theoretically could be under Jakarta or Lucene (though of course search.apache.org is where its aimed).
Erik
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