On Nov 7, 2012, at 21:23, James Carman <[email protected]> wrote:
> If we take it on, we might want to consider a rename. "Droids" makes > me think of Android, which would make me think this is some sort of > utility library for Android programming. And it does not fit what I consider commons naming. Recall the recent rename from sanselan to imaging. Gary > > On Wed, Nov 7, 2012 at 8:51 PM, Richard Frovarp <[email protected]> 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. >> >> Richard >> >> >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] >> For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] >> > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] > For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
