Hi Richard,
I told you I was more than willing to help, and I think many users
feel
the same way, but I for one feel that there is a lack of documentation
and support. This isn't meant to offend anyone, if you are
offended you
need to toughen up your skin a little bit.
Here you can find some more documentation:
http://wiki.media-style.com/display/nutchDocu/Home
It is the first hit when you are searching for nutch documentation
with google.
Sure it is full with tons of typos and has many language issues
since my english is terrible
but at least I guess that it already helps some people to get a nutch
0.7 or nutch 0.8 up and running.
Serious nutch is as much production ready as a noncommercial open
source project could be.
I know people having >500 mio pages index and I personal run crawls
with ~300 pages per second.
I'm not sure what you can expect more than that from a open source
search project.
Stefan