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?
I agree with you that there is a need for 0.7-style Nutch. I wouldn't
say reviving but more "Disecting and re-directing" :-). here you go
--- my focus here is 0.7 style i.e. mid-size, enterprise need.
Solr could use a good crawler cos it has everything else .. (AFAIK)
probably this is not technically "plug an pray :-)" also I am not sure
Solr community wants a crawler but it could benefit from such Solr add
on/snap on crawler. Furthermore I am sure some of the 0.7 plugins
could be re-factored to fit into Solr.
I will forward the mail to Solr community to see if there any interest.
Cheers
