You are right, no need to add Nutch to the proposal then. Otis
--- Erik Hatcher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > 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 > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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]
