Hi Tommaso, and thank you for leading this :-) The stuff on new distr system: see this earlier email: http://markmail.org/message/m2pulezchutdirwl
Cheers. -Marshall On 11/20/2012 3:04 AM, Tommaso Teofili wrote: > First of all thank you all for the feedback :) > > @Erik: I think your patch would be extremely useful, if you're up to it I > would be happy to apply it. > > @Richard: thanks for the useful report, I am with you when we talk about > experienced UIMA developers (e.g. like you at DKPro are) but in my > experience newcomers often just look at the project website and, even if we > have a lot of nice documentation, I think we loose those users who are just > looking for "something to do language detection". > > @Peter/Marshall: I can take care of the addons stuff even though I'm not > that experienced in every single component. > > @Marshall: what do you mean exactly to migrate to the new distribution > system ? Regarding Eclipse plugins I think it applies less to the addons > stuff, or maybe just to TextMarker. > > Looking forward to your comments, > Tommaso > > > > 2012/11/19 Marshall Schor <[email protected]> > >> A few other things for the "roadmap": >> >> - migrating the distribution system to the new Apache way (required by end >> of >> year !) >> - updating the build of Eclipse plugins for P2 and perhaps Tycho style >> - updating our m2e environment to current levels of m2e and writing the >> needed >> additional metadata needed to get that to work well >> >> -Marshall >> On 11/18/2012 6:36 PM, Marshall Schor wrote: >>> Sounds good to me, +1. >>> >>> The main thing will be to get volunteers to do the updates, on >> approximately the >>> road map schedule. >>> >>> I think the NLP tasks could be seeded by harvesting our mailing lists >> for useful >>> nuggets. >>> >>> Of course, another thing could be to get someone to write a book >> covering these >>> topics. >>> >>> -Marshall >>> >>> >>> On 11/18/2012 3:10 AM, Tommaso Teofili wrote: >>>> 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 >>>> >>
