Thanks a lot, Lewis. This was very helpful! Best regards, Martin
On Thu, 2013-06-27 at 13:07 -0700, Lewis John Mcgibbney wrote: > 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 >
