I agree with Andrzej. On my part if some takes the effort of preparing patches and testing I as a committer (not very active one recently) may focus on 7.2 issues and commit the patches. And in future prepare 7.3 release. Regards, Piotr
On 11/15/06, Andrzej Bialecki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Nitin Borwankar wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > First an intro. I am another Nutch newbie and am finding 0.7.2 to be > > quite an effective single machine crawler. > > > [..] > > The ability to keep db formats compatible would be nice to allow reuse > > of existing results but is not necessary. > > > > > That's probably not going to happen - each branch has specific > requirements from the db and segment formats, which are incompatible. > However, given enough interest we could implement converters, even > bi-directional. > > > > As a potential developer I would like to volunteer for the ongoing > > maintenance and evolution of 0.7.2 as an effective single machine > > crawler. > > > > That's excellent! I imagine the procedure to get you involved would be > something like this: > > * start collecting issues related to maintenance, bugfixes or > improvements of that branch, > > * create JIRA issues, plus start collecting patches, tested and ready > for committing. One of the existing developers will commit them on your > behalf. > > * after a while we would consider giving you committer rights so that > you could work directly with the code. > > > > Consider this a proposal to maintain two separate versions by continuing > > bug fix versions of 0.7 until one of two things happen > > > > a) 0.8 evolves to something satisfactory for use as also as a single > > machine search engine and everyone is happy moving to it > > b) a critical mass of developers steps forward to support the ongoing > > development of 0.7.2 into say Nutch-lite always and only meant for > > single machine use. > > > I do hope that option a) becomes a reality sooner rather than later. But if > there is sufficient interest (and enough developers) in developing 0.7 > branch, then go for it - keeping in mind, though, that eventually these code > bases will diverge so much that maintaining them will require two mostly > separate teams ... > > -- > Best regards, > Andrzej Bialecki <>< > ___. ___ ___ ___ _ _ __________________________________ > [__ || __|__/|__||\/| Information Retrieval, Semantic Web > ___|||__|| \| || | Embedded Unix, System Integration > http://www.sigram.com Contact: info at sigram dot com > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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-general mailing list Nutch-general@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nutch-general
