I Would Like to Participate in Tika Development (Resend)

[Keith Bennett <kb...@sms-fed.com>]

(On Friday, I sent this message from a different address,  
kbennett@bbsinc.biz, but I am told that many spam filters will filter  
out any .biz addresses, so I am sending it again from this address  
(kbennett@sms-fed.com).)

Dear Friends,

My project is in serious need of the functionality that Tika was  
created to provide.  Although Tika is incomplete, it looks to be an  
excellent start for what we need.  I intend to use it as a starting  
point for my development.

I would love to contribute the fruits of my efforts to your project,  
if (as I hope and expect) you find them useful.  And, of course, I  
value highly your expertise, which would be greatly helpful to myself  
and the project on which I work.

If you are open to my participation, please let me know how to  
proceed.  I have been programming for over 25 years, but my  
participation in open source software is limited to my starting a  
functional but small, unknown, and underdeveloped project on  
SourceForge called yadameter (at http://sourceforge.net/projects/ 
yadameter/).

One of the things I would like to do is to add Javadoc (for those  
things I am confident that I understand).

Also, is there anything you can tell me about which parts are  
functional and which are not?

Regards,
Keith Bennett