On 8 November 2012 01:51, Richard Frovarp <rfrov...@apache.org> wrote: > On 11/07/2012 07:03 PM, Phil Steitz wrote: >> >> On 11/7/12 4:02 PM, Emmanuel Bourg wrote: >>> >>> Le 08/11/2012 00:13, Gary Gregory a écrit : >>>> >>>> Or Nutch? >>>> >>>> Gary >>> >>> You are right, Nutch already has a web crawler, that looks like the >>> perfect home for a crawler framework. >> >> IIUC, Cocoon (and others?) also need this, so it makes sense for it >> to be a component on its own and - assuming it stays small - in >> Commons. I have not looked carefully at the code, but it does not >> look so much like "a crawler" to me as a framework for managing >> things like crawlers. >> >> Phil > > > It is a framework targeted at crawling something for some goal. Nutch is > about search and HttpComponents is about HTTP. You can Droids to crawl the > file system for some other goal other than search. So those other projects > aren't the best fit either. The other issue is that most projects are > spinning off sub-projects. Commons is the only place that is really taking > subprojects within its area of responsibility. There is a community behind > Droids, but not sure it's to the level of its own TLP.
According to the Droids status page [1] there are 8 committers. That is more than several TLPs, including HttpComponents and JMeter. I'm not yet convinced that Droids belongs in Commons. [1] http://incubator.apache.org/projects/droids.html > Richard > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@commons.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@commons.apache.org > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@commons.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@commons.apache.org
