[GSoC 2024 PROPOSAL] Overhaul the legacy Apache Nutch plugin framework and replace it with PF4J

[Lewis John Mcgibbney]

Hi PF4J Community,

I decided to write up a Google Summer of Code project proposal titled “Overhaul the legacy Apache Nutch plugin framework and replace it with PF4J”.

Apache Nutch is a highly extensible, highly scalable, matured, production-ready Web crawler which enables fine grained configuration and accomodates a wide variety of data acquisition tasks. You can learn more about Nutch at https://nutch.apache.org.

For quite a while now the Nutch development community have been thinking about adopting and evangelizing PF4J. Hopefully this GSoC initiative will address that want.

I encourage interested applicants to register your interest in the below JIRA issue or else reach out on d...@nutch.apache.org (please CC lew...@apache.org).

Title: Overhaul the legacy Nutch plugin framework and replace it with PF4J
JIRA: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/NUTCH-3034

Thanks in advance, and good luck to prospective GSoC applicants.

Lewis McGobbney