Nutch Incubation Status - Apache Incubator

Nutch is web search software. It builds on the Apache Lucene search library, adding a crawler, web database (including full link graph), plugins for various document formats, user interface, etc. It is currently used by sites such as The Creative Commons , Oregon State University , and The Internet Archive.

Project info

Project Website: http://www.nutch.org/

Project Mailing Lists: http://incubator.apache.org/nutch/mailing_lists.html

If the project website and code repository are not yet setup, use the following table:

item	type	reference
Website	www	http://incubator.apache.org/nutch/
	wiki	http://wiki.apache.org/nutch/
Mailing list	dev	nutch-dev@incubator.apache.org
	commits	nutch-commits@incubator.apache.org
	user	nutch-user@incubator.apache.org
	agent	nutch-agent@incubator.apache.org
		nutch-general@incubator.apache.org
Bug tracking	Jira	http://issues.apache.org/jira/
Source code	SVN	https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/incubator/nutch
Mentors	cutting	Doug Cutting
	ehatcher	Erik Hatcher
Committers	cutting	Doug Cutting
	cafarella	Michael Cafarella
	abial	Andrzej Bialecki
	johnx	John Xing
	ziren	Sami Siren

Incubation status reports

none yet

Incubation work items

Project Setup

This is the first phase on incubation, needed to start the project at Apache.

Item assignment is shown by the Apache id. Completed tasks are shown by the completion date (YYYY-MM-dd).

Identify the project to be incubated

status	item
DONE	Make sure that the requested project name does not already exist and check www.nameprotect.com to be sure that the name is not already trademarked for an existing software product.
DONE	If request from an existing Apache project to adopt an external package, then ask the Apache project for the cvs module and mail address names.
DONE	If request from outside Apache to enter an existing Apache project, then post a message to that project for them to decide on acceptance.
DONE	If request from anywhere to become a stand-alone PMC, then assess the fit with the ASF, and create the lists and modules under the incubator address/module names if accepted.

Interim responsibility

status	item
DONE	Identify all the Mentors for the incubation, by asking all that can be Mentors.
DONE	Subscribe all Mentors on the pmc and general lists.
DONE	Give all Mentors access to all incubator CVS modules. (to be done by PMC chair)
DONE	Tell Mentors to track progress in the file 'incubator/projects/{project.name}.cwiki'

Copyright

status	item
DONE	Check and make sure that the papers that transfer rights to the ASF been received. It is only necessary to transfer rights for the package, the core code, and any new code produced by the project.
DONE	Check and make sure that the files that have been donated have been updated to reflect the new ASF copyright.

Verify distribution rights

status	item
DONE	Check and make sure that for all code included with the distribution that is not under the Apache license, e have the right to combine with Apache-licensed code and redistribute.
DONE	Check and make sure that all source code distributed by the project is covered by one or more of the following approved licenses: Apache, BSD, Artistic, MIT/X, MIT/W3C, MPL 1.1, or something with essentially the same terms.

Establish a list of active committers !

status	item
DONE	Check that all active committers have submitted a contributors agreement.
DONE	Add all active committers in the STATUS file.
DONE	Ask root for the creation of committers' accounts on cvs.apache.org.

Infrastructure !

status	item
DONE	Ask infrastructure to create source repository modules and grant the committers karma.
DONE	Ask infrastructure to set up and archive Mailing lists.
DONE	Decide about and then ask infrastructure to setup an issuetracking system (Bugzilla, Scarab, Jira).
DONE	Migrate the project to our infrastructure.

Project specific

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Incubation

These action items have to be checked for during the whole incubation process.

These items are not to be signed as done during incubation, as they may change during incubation. They are to be looked into and described in the status reports and completed in the request for incubation signoff.

Collaborative Development

Have all of the active long-term volunteers been identified and acknowledged as committers on the project?

Yes. All existing committers have migrated to Apache.

Are there three or more independent committers? (The legal definition of independent is long and boring, but basically it means that there is no binding relationship between the individuals, such as a shared employer, that is capable of overriding their free will as individuals, directly or indirectly.)

Yes. Nutch has five committers. No two committers share an employer. Yahoo! at times contracts with two of the five committers (Mike & Doug) to work on Nutch.

Are project decisions being made in public by the committers?

Yes. Project discussions are on public mailing lists.

Are the decision-making guidelines published and agreed to by all of the committers?

Yes. Committers are using Apache decision-making guidelines.

Licensing awareness

Are all licensing, trademark, credit issues being taken care of and acknowleged by all committers?

Yes. Several Nutch plugins were disabled when Nutch entered incubation, since they required libraries with incompatible licenses. Nearly all of these have since been re-written and re-enabled. Two plugins remain disabled (parse-mp3 and parse-rtf) but these are not critical. Through this process, all comitters have become familiar with the legal issues related to Apache software.

Project Specific

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Exit

Things to check for before voting the project out.

Organizational acceptance of responsibility for the project

If graduating to an existing PMC, has the PMC voted to accept it?

Yes. It has on 2005-06-01.

Incubator sign-off

Has the Incubator decided that the project has accomplished all of the above tasks?

Yes. It has on 2005-06-01.