It all sounds reasonable and makes sense, thanks. Otis
--- Doug Cutting <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Otis Gospodnetic wrote: > > Would it be good to make one last release of Nutch before starting > the > > MapReduce effort? This would give people the chance to grab this > last, > > pre-MapReduce version now, instead of having to wait for MapReduce > port > > to be done. > > Yes, I would like to make a 0.7 release soon. > > While we're in the incubator, releases require a vote of the > Incubator > PMC, which I would rather avoid, since it involves a lot of folks who > > are not familiar with Nutch. Once we are a sub-project of Lucene > then > we can make releases and add comitters with the oversight of only > Lucene's PMC. As you know, the Lucene PMC is willing to accept Nutch > as > a sub-project, so now the only formality is a vote by the Incubator > PMC > to graduate Nutch from the incubator and into > lucene.apache.org/nutch. > I will call that vote today and, if all goes well, we should be able > to > make a 0.7 release in a week or two. > > > I see there is a new branch for MapReduce. Is the plan to keep > going > > in parallel on the trunk and release MapReduce-less Nutch from > there > > later? > > Yes, more or less. I wanted to be able to start incompatible > MapReduce-related work without breaking 0.7. Sometime after the 0.7 > release we can merge the changes from the mapred branch back into the > > trunk and kill the mapred branch. Normally I try to avoid branching, > > but I really want to get started on the MapReduce work without > worrying > about back-compatibility, but I also still want to make a > pre-MapReduce > release based on the current trunk. A branch seemed like the best > way > to do this. > > Doug > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.Net email is sponsored by Oracle Space Sweepstakes > Want to be the first software developer in space? > Enter now for the Oracle Space Sweepstakes! > http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=7412&alloc_id=16344&op=click > _______________________________________________ > Nutch-general mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nutch-general >
