Hi Susam, Good question, and I'm afraid we may be a little late: http://wiki.apache.org/general/SummerOfCodeMentor
I think the main problem is that nobody has time to be the mentor. As for ideas, I think Solr integration would be very nice to have. Solr, with its recent support for distributed searching could possibly even become the default searcher for Nutch, so we don't have duplicated functionality in Nutch. If somebody volunteers to be a mentor, we can try quickly add the project idea+mentor name to http://wiki.apache.org/general/SummerOfCode2008 Does any committer have time? Andrzej BialeckiMike CafarellaJérôme CharronDoug CuttingDoğacan GüneyPiotr KosiorowskiDennis KubesChris A. MattmannSami SirenJohn Xing Otis -- Sematext -- http://sematext.com/ -- Lucene - Solr - Nutch ----- Original Message ---- From: Susam Pal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: nutch-dev@lucene.apache.org Sent: Saturday, March 22, 2008 9:50:48 AM Subject: Why is Nutch not involved in Google Summer of Code - 2008? 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