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

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