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
