Hi all, currently I don't think we have a proper roadmap on the addons development so I'd like to propose one.
Some of the addons are based on some other libraries (e.g. Lucene, Solr, Tika, etc.) so the first thing I'd like to do is gradually update those to newly released major versions; these touches: - TikaAnnotator : currently at 0.7, migrate to 1.2 and make a release - Lucas : currently at 2.9.3, migrate to 3.6 / 4.x and maybe make one release each (because of API / index change from 3.x to 4.x) - Solrcas : currently at 3.1, migrate to 3.6 / 4.x and maybe make one release each (because of API / index change from 3.x to 4.x) The following addons providing services from external services may need an update as well in order to get latest features - OpenCalaisAnnotator - AlchemyAPIAnnotator then release each of them For all the others I think it's more or less just bugfixing. Another thing I'd like to add to our website / documentation is something like "how to do NLP task X within Apache UIMA"; we currently have a list of external sources plus the addons page but I think it'd be nice for a user to know which known open source UIMA enabled options exist for doing e.g. language detection, tokenization, etc either in the addons package or from some other sources. What do you think? Regards, Tommaso
