Hi, thank you for your comments. I'll definitely incorporate your suggestions in the next UIMA-AS announcement. Here is an additional information that can be included in the future:
"The Unstructured Information Management Architecture (UIMA) is a component framework supporting development, discovery, composition, and deployment of multi-modal analytics tasked with the analysis of unstructured information. Apache UIMA is an Apache licensed open source implementation of the UIMA specification which is being developed by a technical committee within OASIS, a standards organization. The implementation comprises an SDK and tooling for composing and running analytic components written in Java and C++, with some support for Perl, Python and TCL. UIMA Asynchronous Scaleout (AS) is an augmented version of Apache UIMA that additionally provides a set of capabilities for achieving flexible scaleout of UIMA analytics. It is the next generation scalability replacement for the UIMA Collection Processing Manager (CPM) adding support for flow controllers and Cas Multipliers. The AS design is based on JMS (Java Message Service) which enables clients to submit multiple Work Items before receiving a response. The UIMA AS supports load balancing, error handling and recovery from errors, metrics collection and performance reporting to help identify bottlenecks in complex deployments." Let me know if the description makes it clear what the project is about. Any suggestions/corrections to the text above are welcomed. Thanks -Jerry Cwiklik On Fri, Dec 16, 2016 at 6:26 PM, sebb <[email protected]> wrote: > What is the project about? Why should I be interested in it? > [rhetorical questions] > > The Announce emails are sent to people not on the developer or user lists. > Most will have no idea what the project is about. > > So the e-mails should contain at least brief details of what the > product does, and some info on why the new release might be of > interest to them. > > Readers should not have to click the link to find out the basic information > (although of course it is useful to have such links for further detail). > > In this case it's fairly clear that the product is an add-on for UIMA. > But UIMA itself is not explained. > > Please can you add that information to future announce mails? > > Thanks. > > On 16 December 2016 at 14:25, Jaroslaw Cwiklik <[email protected]> wrote: > > The Apache UIMA team is pleased to announce the release of the Apache > > UIMA-AS version 2.9.0, which includes asynchronous scaleout capabilities > for > > the UIMA annotators. > > > > UIMA-AS includes the base UIMA SDK and augments it with scaleout > > capability; it is a next-generation replacement for the original CPM > > (Collection Processing Management) scaleout that is part of the core UIMA > > Framework. For more information, please visit: > > > > http://uima.apache.org/doc-uimaas-what.html > > > > This release contains a number of improvements and bug fixes. Notable > > updates in this release include: > > > > - Updated to use Activemq 5.14.0 > > - Added dependency on UIMA SDK 2.9.0 > > - Fixed http based service connectivity > > - Added support for automatic recovery of temp queues after broker > > restart. > > - Fixed per CAS Performance Metrics breakdown > > - Fixed per process CPU & RSS reporting > > - Fixed example runtime configurations > > - Fixed error recovery on exception while deserializing a CAS > > - "Pinned" JMX MBeans to a specific deployment to enable orderly > cleanup > > - Fixed support of AMQ white listing of packages > > - Added support to disable JMX via a new argument > > -Duima.as.enable.jmx=false > > - Fixed dd2spring issues > > - Updated version checker to test compatibility with UIMA SDK. > > > > For a complete list of bugs and improvements included in this release > please > > see > > https://uima.apache.org/d/uima-as-2.9.0/issuesFixed/jira-report.html. > > > > -- Jerry Cwiklik, for the Apache UIMA development team > > >
