Re: Release planning

[Julien Nioche <li...@gmail.com>]

+1 from me. I've committed today a bunch of patches which were in 1.2 but
not in 1.3 (just one last one to do) but haven't compared with 2.0

Having a release based on 1.3 would be great as it would be a nice
transition towards 2.0 (delegate indexing/search, dependency management with
Ivy, separation between local and remote deployment, removal of redondant
plugins etc...).

Julien

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On 4 January 2011 20:27, Andrzej Bialecki <ab...@getopt.org> wrote:

> Hi users & devs,
>
> As you probably know, there are currently two active lines of development
> for Nutch:
>
> * Nutch trunk, a.k.a. Nutch 2.0: this is based on a completely redesigned
> storage layer that uses Apache Gora, which in turn can use various storage
> implementations such as HBase, Cassandra, and MySQL. This branch is still
> largely experimental and unstable, but work is progressing, and at the
> current pace I think a release should be possible within the next ~6 months.
> Another important addition on this branch is a REST API that allows using
> Nutch as a black-box crawling service.
>
> * Nutch branch-1.3: this started as a snapshot of Nutch trunk just before
> merging with nutchbase (i.e. switching to Gora as a storage layer). This
> branch is still largely similar to the previous versions of Nutch, and uses
> Hadoop MapFile/SequenceFile and "segments". As compared with release 1.2 it
> does NOT ship with any search infrastructure, because all search
> functionality has been delegated to Solr (via SolrIndexer). This is BTW also
> true about Nutch trunk.
>
> Regarding branch-1.2 (which is a maintenance branch after release 1.2)
> there have been pretty no updates there, if any. Nutch committer resources
> are very limited (when it comes to active committers), so I don't expect any
> maintenance release from this branch to happen...
>
> I think that considering the relatively remote release date for Nutch 2.-0
> it would make sense to roll out a 1.3 release based on branch-1.3, after
> making sure that all critical patches from trunk have been merged in there.
>
> What do you think?
>
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> Best regards,
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