New top-level Apache projects named

[Posted May 4, 2010 by corbet]

The Apache Software Foundation has announced the naming of a set of new top-level development projects. These include the Traffic Server, Mahout, Nutch, Avro, HBase, and Tika. "Apache Tika is an embeddable, lightweight toolkit for content detection, and analysis. Powering by MIME standards from IANA, advanced language detection features and on the ability to rapidly unify existing parser libraries, Tika provides a one-stop shop for navigating the modern information landscape."

New top-level Apache projects named

Posted May 4, 2010 15:22 UTC (Tue) by kpfleming (subscriber, #23250) [Link] (1 responses)

Umm... to my knowledge, IANA does not produce any standards.

New top-level Apache projects named

Posted May 4, 2010 16:10 UTC (Tue) by iabervon (subscriber, #722) [Link]

IANA does, however, maintain the MIME type registry. They are the official source for the information as to which of all the standards that exists is actually relevant to what this software is trying to do at any particular time.

New top-level Apache projects named

Posted May 4, 2010 15:42 UTC (Tue) by mmahut (guest, #45550) [Link]

I like the name Mahout.

New top-level Apache projects named

Posted May 5, 2010 6:30 UTC (Wed) by yodermk (subscriber, #3803) [Link]

Whenever I read Apache project descriptions, my eyes glaze over (with a few exceptions). Is it just me?

I'm sure there's tons of way useful stuff in there. But is there a user-friendly guide to figuring out which of it might be relevant to whatever I'm doing?

I think what Apache needs is a "Dummies" style book that simply takes a tour of their projects and shows use cases and basic examples for all of them.