Otis, Some time ago people on the list said that they are willing to at least maintain Nutch 0.7 branch. As a committer (not very active recently) I volunteered to commit patches when they appear - I do not have enough time at the moment to do active coding. I have created a 7.3 release in JIRA so we can start looking at it. So - we are ready and willing to move Nutch 0.7 forward but it looks like there is no interest at the moment. Regards Piotr
On 1/22/07, Otis Gospodnetic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hi, I've been meaning to write this message for a while, and Andrzej's StrategicGoals made me compose it, finally. Nutch 0.8 and beyond is very cool, very powerful, and once Hadoop stabilizes, it will be even more valuable than it is today. However, I think there is still a need for something much simpler, something like what Nutch 0.7 used to be. Fairly regular nutch-user inquiries confirm this. Nutch has too few developers to maintain and further develop both of these concepts, and the main Nutch developers need the more powerful version - 0.8 and beyond. So, what is going to happen to 0.7? Maintenance mode? I feel that there is enough need for 0.7-style Nutch that it might be worth at least considering and discussing the possibility of somehow branching that version into a parallel project that's not just in a maintenance mode, but has its own group of developers (not me, no time :( ) that pushes it forward. Thoughts? Otis
