Hi Jörn, On Jul 23, 2012, at 8:40 AM, Jörn Kottmann wrote:
> On 07/23/2012 05:18 PM, Chen, Pei wrote: >> My apologies as we tried to be transparent as we can in the original project >> proposal: >> - There are currently over 50 contributors/developers actively contributing >> to cTAKES spread across over 8 sites (Mayo, BCH, Colorado University, >> Pittsburgh, UCSD, MITRE, etc.). >> - We have already communicated to developers as well as known users about >> the move to Apache as soon as we could. They have also been invited to the >> various ctakes-dev@ mailing lists as soon as they were created (which seems >> to be a first logical step in also becoming contributors/committers). > > I am a bit scared by this statement. The initial developers list only has 4 > names on it compared to 50 active contributors/developers, > why is there such a huge gap? How many people have commit rights for cTAKES > on SF? Yep this statement concerned me too. > > Did you reach consensus among the developers to move cTAKES to the Apache > Incubator or is this a fork of the cTAKES project? I have the same question. > > This also has a big impact on the IP clearance process because all parties > who contributed a significant amount > to the code base should be involved in it. Yep that's my other concern is that at the least, the Software Grant won't cover b/c the Software was developed by more contributors than are present here as initial Apache committers. 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 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
