Hi Martin, Thanks for the mail. Please see my answers in line On Thu, Jun 27, 2013 at 12:53 PM, Martin Aesch <[email protected]>wrote:
> Should I switch from 2.1/Cassandra to 2.2.1/Cassandra? Once we release yes. we are currently VOTEíng on the release of 2.2.1. Some background here, in the last week or so, a member of the community came forward with a bug fix for Nutch 2.x which justified as bug fix release. It should be noted that 2.x HEAD supersedes 2.2.1 the minute a new commit is made to the branch. It is up to you whether you want to ship on the bleeding edge of development or with an official release. > Should I possibly > wait for 2.3? I imagine that 2.3 may be >3 months off... however I may be wrong here as anyone is free to cut a release at their own will. > I would need good Cassandra integration and hope for a > full maven project, so that I can just load it into netbeans, to speak > out my principal wishes. > Well we 'may' shift Nutch to a maven build some time soon however full support for all the IDE's out there is certainly not on the immediate roadmap I don't think. > > I recently started my project with Nutch 2.1 and already solved some > hassle, both in setup and storage, as well as in sources. Reading about > other peoples problems with Cassandra (which version btw would you > recommend?) makes me thinking, and a new release is as always attracting > people. > Glad to hear that it is not all pain for you. If you are looking at using Nutch 2.X, I would ALWAYS advise users to quickly look at the gora parent pom.xml. Currently gora-cassandra is tested against Cassandra 1.1.2, so we can say that we have support up till this version. I see there is a 2.2.1 branch, does this mean, you will provide further, > (((possibly regular))), bugfix-releases 2.2.x ? I doubt it. As I said, the 2.2.1 version semantics indicate a bug fix, we don't have a track history of making too many bug fixes in Nutch but you never know ;) > My project is young enough to upgrade and I am absolutely > prepared to code and solve further issues. Currently, HBase (0.90.x) is > though the focus for 2.x line; but is there any hope that Cassandra > development will be closer and more intense, especially with gora-0.3? > Yes a number of folks down in the Gora community have been adding andf improving support for gora-cassandra over the last few releases. There is also more planned and it will be maintained as such. It is likely that the HBase module will see much more (possibly non-backwards-compatable) change within Gora 0.4 development as we have a major upgrade of the HBase API to 0.94.X. If you are comfortable working with Cassandra I hope that you will enjoy working with gora-cassandra as part of your stack. Lewis -- *Lewis*
