Welcome back James! Good to hear from you again. Out of respect for the others in the community who already volunteered to be RM, I do not see an need for BCH to override existing volunteers. Unless they unable or unwilling. Would you/others agree?
Sent from my iPhone > On Jan 27, 2017, at 2:23 PM, James Masanz <masanz.ja...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hi, > > I'm James Masanz -- if you've been on the dev list for more than a couple > years, you might recognize my name from my previous contributions to > cTAKES, which include having been a release manager. > > I've joined the Boston Children's Hospital NLP team. I will be devoting > significant energy to the next release of cTAKES, and I volunteer to be the > release manager for it. > > My initial thoughts are that we could make the "fast dictionary lookup" be > the default dictionary lookup, incorporate the dictionary GUI from sandbox, > and call the release 4.0. I'm also interested in migrating the Wiki away > from Confluence to Apache's moin-moin instance. I'm sure there are other > things to include in the next release as well. > > You'll be hearing more from me over the next few weeks as I review the list > of issues in Jira and get caught up with details of what's been going on > while I was less active here. > > One thing I would like to track for release candidates would be a list of > what is tested on which platforms, which could be as simple as a post with > a matrix of src/bin/other vs. linux/windows/mac, and making sure we have at > least one volunteer to test the install and run of a pipeline for each > entry in the table. Future releases might expand on that to include > tracking multiple pipelines across environments, etc. > > I'm happy I'm returning to being active in the cTAKES community! > > -- James
