I really can not agree with the way Mr. Richard Braman express his
views. I have tried Nutch since version 0.3 and I could not make the
0.8 release work (Nutch is becoming a little bit complicated with all
those map reduce, hadoop, and so on, that I can't deal with). I
understand, however, that if a product is not finished yet, some times
it may fail with the lack of some fundamental documentation, but, if
there is a bunch of people who develops, for free, a product that is
commercially worth some thousands of dollars and may fit our purposes,
we have to say thanks. After that we can, of course, express our views,
complaints and suggestions, but we should refrain from some hard, non
relevant comments, that goes nowhere, like this, non technical, post of
mine.
I, myself, have my own experimental implementation of Nutch 0.7.1.x (a
nightly version), with more than 400,000 pages, that can be, sometimes,
viewed at brazilian working hours, at
http://www.qualidade.eng.br/constelacao.htm . It is in portuguese, but
english terms related to quality, standards and environment can be
searched.
