Hi James, On Jul 20, 2012, at 12:45 PM, Masanz, James J. wrote:
> > There is active development of cTAKES enhancements on the sourceforge > site by people who are not among the initial Apache committers. OK, this is a seriously concerning statement. Why weren't these people made part of the initial set of committers? > The 2.6 > release of cTAKES which is in the start of its build process is what I > would call a functional release. This release and its release date were > planned prior to being accepted as an incubator project. That's fine and dandy, but when the decision was made to make this an Incubator project, I don't think those plans should have been left to sit, and they needed to be revisited. I'll put it simply, I would seriously consider right now, not waiting, doing the following: 1. Reconsidering anyone that is developing cTAKES at sourceforge that you didn't bring on the committer list here at Apache, and proposing those people as new committers and PPMC members. If they are developing the code, and working on the project, why are they not doing it here? 2. Assessing, with the Apache cTAKES community here, the impact of making 2.6 at Apache? What is stopping you, specifically, from making the release here? > > I was hoping before the first release of "Apache cTAKES" the initial > committers would spend time refactoring (removing spaces from directory > names, as well as standardizing tree names, and other refactoring). These sound like improvements, but not *blockers* to releasing Apache cTAKES. > There isn't time for those sorts of changes before 2.6 unless we change > the release plans for it. And why can't that be done? Cheers, Chris ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Chris Mattmann, Ph.D. Senior Computer Scientist NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory Pasadena, CA 91109 USA Office: 171-266B, Mailstop: 171-246 Email: [email protected] WWW: http://sunset.usc.edu/~mattmann/ ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Adjunct Assistant Professor, Computer Science Department University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089 USA ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
