Splendid +1! On Tuesday 04 January 2011 21:27:54 Andrzej Bialecki wrote: > Hi users & devs, > > As you probably know, there are currently two active lines of > development for Nutch: > > * Nutch trunk, a.k.a. Nutch 2.0: this is based on a completely > redesigned storage layer that uses Apache Gora, which in turn can use > various storage implementations such as HBase, Cassandra, and MySQL. > This branch is still largely experimental and unstable, but work is > progressing, and at the current pace I think a release should be > possible within the next ~6 months. Another important addition on this > branch is a REST API that allows using Nutch as a black-box crawling > service. > > * Nutch branch-1.3: this started as a snapshot of Nutch trunk just > before merging with nutchbase (i.e. switching to Gora as a storage > layer). This branch is still largely similar to the previous versions of > Nutch, and uses Hadoop MapFile/SequenceFile and "segments". As compared > with release 1.2 it does NOT ship with any search infrastructure, > because all search functionality has been delegated to Solr (via > SolrIndexer). This is BTW also true about Nutch trunk. > > Regarding branch-1.2 (which is a maintenance branch after release 1.2) > there have been pretty no updates there, if any. Nutch committer > resources are very limited (when it comes to active committers), so I > don't expect any maintenance release from this branch to happen... > > I think that considering the relatively remote release date for Nutch > 2.-0 it would make sense to roll out a 1.3 release based on branch-1.3, > after making sure that all critical patches from trunk have been merged > in there. > > What do you think?
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