Hi Steve,

On Jul 20, 2012, at 11:49 AM, Steven Bethard wrote:

> On Jul 20, 2012, at 12:46 PM, Mattmann, Chris A (388J) wrote:
>> On Jul 20, 2012, at 10:59 AM, Chen, Pei wrote:
>> 
>>> Sounds good. We'll start this over the next several weeks (after the 
>>> current cTAKES 2.6 release).
>> 
>> Can you shed some light here? 
>> 
>> What current release are you talking about? I would encourage you not to 
>> duplicate
>> development especially while you now have a project at the ASF incubator 
>> called Apache
>> cTakes (incubating). Moreover, releasing software at the external, 
>> pre-Apache community
>> can potentially cause confusion (and maintenance woes) downstream especially 
>> for 
>> Apache cTAKES and can cause folks to just not come here or avoid coming here 
>> at all
>> from a user and developer perspective.
>> 
>> I'd really as a mentor like to know more about what's going on here, so 
>> hopefully you
>> (or someone else involved) can shed some light.
> 
> Pei can give you the full answer, but my impression was that the goal was to 
> make one final release of cTAKES at the old location before the refactoring, 
> etc. for Apache begins. Then all future releases would be from Apache.

Hmm, was this mentioned in the Incubator proposal? 

if so, sorry that I missed it -- if not, why not? 

Cheers,
Chris

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