On Wed, 31 Aug 2005 14:37:54 -0700, Doug Cutting wrote: >[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> I, too, am looking forward to this, but I am wondering what that >> will do to Kelvin Tan's recent contribution, especially since I >> saw that both MapReduce and Kelvin's code change how >> FetchListEntry works. If merging mapred to trunk means losing >> Kelvin's changes, then I suggest one of Nutch developers >> evaluates Kelvin's modifications and, if they are good, commits >> them to trunk, and then makes the final pre-mapred release (e.g. >> release-0.8). >> > > It won't lose Kelvin's patch: it will still be a patch to 0.7. > > What I worry about is the alternate scenario: that Kelvin & others > invest a lot of effort making this work with 0.7, while the mapred- > based code diverges even further. It would be best if Kelvin's > patch is ported to the mapred branch sooner rather than later, then > maintained there. > > Doug
Agreed. I have some time in the coming weeks, and will work fulltime to evolve the patch to be more compatible with Nutch especially map-red.. k
