I just wanted to drop a note to see how to best proceed with 3.0.0-incubating? I'm personally a big fan of releasing incremental releases frequently rather than a mammoth release. Having said that, should we proceed (as long as there are no stoppers) and make any fixes in a subsequent release?
--Pei > -----Original Message----- > From: Chen, Pei [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Wednesday, December 05, 2012 11:25 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: RE: Create a ctakes-3.0.0-incubating RC4 soon? > > Hi Jukka, > Welcome, it's awesome to have the chair (or former char now?) of the > incubator project join!! > > > * The source archive is pretty big at ~600MB. Surely that's not all > > source code written by you? External or precompiled binaries like the > > various lib jars should not be included in the source release as their > > contents can't reasonably be reviewed. Instead they can be made > > available as a separate - libs (or -deps) archive, or (better yet) > > downloaded automatically from something like the central Maven > repository as a part of the build. > > These files were system generated statistical models built by their > respective authors/institutions who contributed the source code and should > be ASL 2.0 licensed along with the code. > For the ones that had a license or potential license conflict, we moved them > to maven central to be automatically downloaded. For example: > <!-- cTAKES Resources --> > <dependency> > <groupId>net.sourceforge.ctakesresources</groupId> > <artifactId>ctakes-resources-umls2011ab</artifactId> > <version>3.0.0</version> > </dependency> > > Do you think this is a show-stopper from releasing this candidate out of > incubator? > Or will we need to move the remaining resources out the projects and have > it pulled in automatically by maven like the umls? i.e. Can we potential do > this > for the next release? > > > * The top-level LICENSE file only mentions ALv2. Are there no non-ALv2 > > code or dependencies included? All the licenses covering code or other > > bits included in a release archive should be included or at least > > referenced in the LICENSE file. > Do we need separate LICENSE/NOTICE files? There is one that inside ctakes- > distribution (that gets copied when packaging all of the binaries contains > references to the 3rd party libs.) > > > * How does the licensing of models like the ones in ctakes-dependency- > > > parser/src/main/resources/org/apache/ctakes/dependency/parser/models/ > > dependency/ > > work? > Yes, these models were system generated statistical models built by their > respective authors/institutions who contributed the source code and > licensed along with the code ASL. > > Thanks, > Pei > > > > > > BR, > > > > Jukka Zitting
