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 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys - and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ Nutch-developers mailing list Nutch-developers@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nutch-developers
