Good words Lewis. On Fri, Oct 6, 2017 at 9:26 AM, lewis john mcgibbney <lewi...@apache.org> wrote:
> Hi Folks, > In my limited experience at Apache ;) > I've come to notice that communities and therefore projects far exceed > their usefulness outside of what current industry or academia is doing. > Examples are all over the place, but my own experience stems from my > involvement with the Apache Nutch project. Key inventors of that software > moved on to Hadoop and goodness knows whatever else, but the current Nutch > community remains at around ~1K subscribers on out user@ mailing list. > I've > personally seen and pushed >15 releases used by countless (1000's) of > people around the world. The software exists are THE best maintained, > highest quality, production ready Web search software current available to > this day. > Chris' points are well founded, Tomasso's match very appropriately to the > fact that Joshua is nowhere near a dead project. I acknowledge that no-one > said it was. The resources available for Joshua are FAR more comprehensive > than anywhere else I've seen. FAR FAR more comprehensive. Joshua is the > FIRST toolkit to be made available as a packaged, consumable, > community-backed software artifact for anyone attempting to get involved > with machine translation. > NONE of the NMT software communities even come close to providing new > software developers with translation packs as Joshua does. They don't even > come close. AFAIK, all of the people so far working on NMT have kept > everything proprietary... which is utterly useless for the next person or > the next academic, etc. > This highlights the essence and hits at the heart of why a group of us > shepharded Joshua into the ASF in the first place. > Believe me, if people are actively discussing a new release on an Apache > mailing list (or any mailing list for that matter), there is always purpose > in continuing. > To bring this back a bit, I will openly state that Matt you have been an > excellent champion for JHU as well as representing yourself with regards to > the way you have adopted and displayed a forward thinking, collaborative > mentality for Joshua. > If you feel your job is 'done', then I congratulate you. > Joshua will live on... at Apache. > Writing software at Apache is not about a competition. It is about writing > high quality software in a collaborative environment for the public good. > We achieve this through peer review from people we have probably never met. > That is called community. > If you would be gracious enough to stay with the community as a PMC Chair > then it would be highly appreciated. If you feel at any time that this is > too much, then let us know. We will be here and we will act when we cross > that bridge. > Over and out folks. > Lewis > > > On Thu, Oct 5, 2017 at 10:04 PM, < > dev-digest-h...@joshua.incubator.apache.org> wrote: > > > > > > > From: Matt Post <p...@cs.jhu.edu> > > To: dev@joshua.incubator.apache.org > > Cc: > > Bcc: > > Date: Fri, 6 Oct 2017 07:03:58 +0200 > > Subject: Re: [DISCUSS] Graduation (was Re: Path to TLP) > > Thanks Tommaso. Though, I should say, initial thanks goes to Zhifei Li. I > > just took it over. > > > > I think I can stick around in the capacity Chris suggests. Thanks, all. > > > > matt > > > > > -- Tom Barber CTO Spicule LTD t...@spicule.co.uk http://spicule.co.uk @spiculeim <http://twitter.com/spiculeim> Schedule a meeting with me <http://meetme.so/spicule> GB: +44(0)5603641316 US: +18448141689 <https://leanpub.com/juju-cookbook>
