[Nutch Wiki] Update of "ApacheConUs2009MeetUp" by KenKrugler

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List of potential discussion topics for ApacheCon US 2009 MeetUp

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We're planning to have a "Web Crawler Developer" !MeetUp at this year's ApacheCon US in Oakland.

Tentative plan is for Thursday evening, November 5th. The actual schedule for !MeetUps is [http://wiki.apache.org/apachecon/ApacheMeetupsUs09 here].

Below are some potential topics for discussion - feel free to add/comment.

* Potential synergies between crawler projects - e.g. sharing robots.txt processing code.
* How to avoid end-user abuse - webmasters sometimes block crawlers because users configure it to be impolite.
* Politeness vs. efficiency - various options for how to be considered polite, while still crawling quickly.
* robots.txt processing - current problems with existing implementations
* Avoiding crawler traps - link farms, honeypots, etc.
* Parsing content - home grown, Neko/TagSoup, Tika, screen scraping
* Search infrastructure - options for serving up crawl results (Nutch, Solr, Katta, others?)
* Testing challenges - is it possible to unit test a crawler?
* Fuzzy classification - mime-type, charset, language.
* The future of Nutch, Droids, Heritrix, Bixo, etc.
* Optimizing for types of crawling - intranet, focused, whole web.