Hi, I was wondering why Nutch project is not involved in Google SoC: http://code.google.com/soc/2008/ Many Apache projects including Commons, Hadoop and Mahout have put up the ideas here: http://wiki.apache.org/general/SummerOfCode2008
Wouldn't it be great to have students helping the project out with some of the work which noone has found time for? For example, many people have requested for a POST based authentication support in Nutch. I personally wanted to do it after adding HTTP Authentication Schemes, but unfortunately I could never manage my time well to do it since it would require a good deal of effort. I am sure, there are many such ideas which have not been done because the contributors did not get time. IMHO, it would be great if students are given opportunity to contribute through GSoC 2008. The mentors can guide them through the work for a few hours every week and some valuable work can be done. What do you say? Regards, Susam Pal
