Hi Rajesh,

It couldn't be further from the truth that there is any time line allocated
to a particular patch review. Patches are reviewed based upon community
driven priorities, new releases, patch quality, committer opinion and
overall value to the Nutch project codebase. Without taking this too far, I
would also say that the ongoing conversation is not in agreement with the
overall friendly ethos which is shared across both the Nutch user and
developer community that such false opinions should be openly expressed in
the hope that this actually benefits the overall environment which we enjoy
within the Nutch community... I would say that to then compare the patch
review process with taking close to a year, then further expanding this to
mention the end of the world is slightly delusional.

As a community we greatly appreciate good quality contributions from all
walks of life, this enables us to leverage a wide diverse developer
expertise, however unfortunately it also means that from time to time there
are cases that form an exception. This being one of them. I find it
extremely difficult to comprehend how it is expected that patches should be
getting integrated into our main development trunk when they have been
openly under development, numerous revisions and subject to several
amendments with little or no comprehensive supporting documentation.

As I said it the past, I think it would be great to get this particular
functionality integrated into the Nutch codebase, but only when the patch
documentation has been substantiated upon and the active committers on the
project have been convinced by the patch quality. This is by no-means
unique to the Apache Nutch project... please take a look at numerous other
projects under the ASF and you will see that this open review and quality
assurance process is pretty much consistent (obviously there are
exceptions).

Finally, I hope this fully addresses the back-hand comments regarding the
review process and that subject to the above conditions the patch can make
its way into the trunk code-base in the near future.

Thanks for now

Lewis

On Sat, Oct 29, 2011 at 12:47 PM, Ramanathapuram, Rajesh <
[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi Radim,
>
> I am fairly new to nutch, Thank you for the explaination about the patch
> review and commit process.
>
> Good luck on your patch being committed to the core.
>
> Thanks,
> Rajesh Ramana
>
>
>
>
> On Oct 29, 2011, at 2:46 AM, "Radim Kolar" <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > Dne 29.10.2011 5:20, Ramanathapuram, Rajesh napsal(a):
> >> Hi Radim,
> >>
> >> I looked at the patch details and the code itself.  On first look, this
> patch looks like it is for handling spaces (%20) and not for spanish
> accented chars (ñ).
> >>
> >> Please let me know if I am overlooking something.
> >>
> >> I will take a closer look as soon as I get time. Thanks for your help.
> > you are right. Spanish characters decode is not yet included.
> >
> > You must understand that nutch team has extensive patch review process
> and this path is beeing reviewed for about 2 months already. If i add
> support for decoding spanish characters now, patch review process will be
> restarted  and %20 encoding and other stuff will be commited in 2012, which
> is too late because end of world is scheduled in 2012 and i would really
> wanted to crawl site with spaces in URL before world is over.
>



-- 
*Lewis*

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