+1 vote for Option #2
 "models in ASF repo in a separate module" 


On Mar 15, 2013, at 8:39 AM, "Chen, Pei" <[email protected]> wrote:

> Just to recap:
> We dodged this issue in the 3.0 release by removing the models in src and bin 
> from the ASF distributions (I think this is something that is better answered 
> by the cTAKES community as a TLP rather than the IPMC). This came about 
> because there were concerns raised by the Incubator community so I decided to 
> remove the models from the 3.0 branch, but I left trunk as-is pending this 
> discussion just to move things forward.
> 
> As our mentors pointed out in the discussion [1], ASF is not a top down 
> organization and we will most likely not get any official answer from anyone 
> "above".  Once cTAKES is a TLP, I believe it would be up to the cTAKES 
> community as  "*individuals* as part of a PMC (who are the ones that 
> *release* the software) are, and are not able to do, and what risk they are 
> and are not able to (implied) take on, and perform, within their community".
> 
> So the question is: What should we do with the model files?  Some options 
> include:
> 
> 1)      Leave them in SourceForge/Maven Central.  Maven can download and 
> include them in the convenience binaries in the ctakes-distribution project. 
> Something we did quickly for 3.0, but needs to be improved if we go with this 
> approach.  For example: [2]
> 
> 2)      Leave them in the ASF repo, but separate modules/projects.
> 
> 3)      Keep them in the same respective ASF modules under /src/main/resources
> 
> I think it's nice to keep these fairly large (~1GB) and static resource files 
> separate from the source code (Either option 1 or 2).  Also, option 1 will 
> require a little more work by the committers/release managers but will 
> definitely avoid any licensing issues/concerns.
> 
> [1] 
> http://markmail.org/search/+list:org.apache.incubator.general#query:list%3Aorg.apache.incubator.general%20from%3A%22Mattmann%2C%20Chris%20A%20(388J)%22+page:6+mid:nzquchvuvgkije3n+state:results
> [2] https://oss.sonatype.org/index.html#nexus-search;quick~ctakesresources :
> <dependency>
>  <groupId>net.sourceforge.ctakesresources</groupId>
>  <artifactId>ctakes-resources-assertion</artifactId>
>  <version>3.1.1-SNAPSHOT</version>
> </dependency>
> <dependency>
>  <groupId>net.sourceforge.ctakesresources</groupId>
>  <artifactId>ctakes-resources-core</artifactId>
>  <version>3.1.1-SNAPSHOT</version>
> </dependency>

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