stack wrote:
> Yeah. I tried using 2.0.1 recently (Was trying to help along the
> hbase-writer effort: http://code.google.com/p/hbase-writer/). I had a
> similar experience. I had to authenticate every time I submittted a
> form and then it'd NPE more often than it'd work. Whats up w/ 2.0.x?
> Is it being used by anyone?

I haven't encountered nor previously heard of any 2.0.1 web UI issue
where reauthentication is necessary on every submit, so I'd have to
guess this was something unique to your browser/network situation.

If you can reproduce, more details about the problem would be great.

At IA we haven't yet adopted any 2.0.x builds for production crawling,
and don't expect to until after 2.2 is available. However, from list
traffic it seems some people are having both success and issues actively
using 2.0.x releases.

> Was also wondering about the move to Apache-licensing project that was
> talked of a while back up on the list?

A future release, most likely 2.2, will move to the Apache 2 license.
The steps required to get there include:
- source file relabelling
- replacing or moving to a well-defined subsection that remains LGPL
some code that originated in other LGPL projects (eg. MG4J/fastutil)
- ensuring any major standalone components/classes from outside
contributors have the contributor's permission to relicense

- Gordon @ IA