On 14/07/11 18:48, Jörn Kottmann wrote: > On 7/14/11 4:20 PM, Peter Klügl wrote: >> Hi all, >> >> I got right now the OK of our legal department, after exactly 7 months... >> don't ask ;-) >> >> We would of course still like to contribute the system to Apache UIMA, if the >> development team is interested. >> >> It's maybe prudent to incrementally contribute the different parts of the >> TextMarker system, e.g., starting with the rule engine after I reimplemented >> it in August. Afterwards, if there is interest in the Eclipse IDE, then I'd >> switch to DLTK 2.0 or 3.0 before contributing it. >> >> I'm looking forward to your thoughts and opinions. > > Why not contribute everything at once? > > We have a sandbox where it can stay until it (or pieces of it) are in a > release-able state. > > I believe it is actually a disadvantage when you decide to develop the > eclipse > plugin outside > of Apache for a while, just to bring it into a state which you feel should be > contributed. > Because this way the knowledge about it also stays outside. > > Jörn > >
A code contribution of that size is also a bit of work. You don't want to go through it several times. --Thilo
