Hi Richard, I neglected to respond to your "General Notes" section.
Re: beta being beta1, beta2, etc.: I'm planning on only having one beta. My feeling is that we should really try to transition to a full release sooner than later... The beta is intended to have stable public APIs that users can start coding to, with some assurance that they won't need to do another "migration" etc. re: the other comments: good points, thank you for those - will work in updates to those going forward from the beta to the full release. Cheers. -Marshall On 10/21/2017 4:25 PM, Richard Eckart de Castilho wrote: > On 17.10.2017, at 17:40, Marshall Schor <[email protected]> wrote: >> Please vote on release: >> >> [ ] +1 OK to release >> [ ] 0 Don't care >> [ ] -1 Not OK to release, because ... > > - checked for differences between SVN tag and sources ZIP: OK > - build with Java 8 and empty Maven repo: OK > - built uimaFIT v3-branch against beta: OK > - built DKPro Core v3-branch against beta: OK > - RELEASE_NOTES file: OK > - sometimes it is "Beta", sometimes "beta" > - mailing list URL is not a link > - Trying to install plugins into Eclipse (from update site): OK > - However, Eclipse says that the JARs are unsigned! (features + plugins) > - Importing the example project into Eclipse: FAIL > - The project imports ok, but some libraries in the project > have older versions than what is actually provided in the lib folder > - Signature spot check: OK > > Well, all in all, it's probably good enough for a beta version > which likely targets existing users rather than new users. But > e.g. the example project should be fixed for the final release. > > [X] +1 OK to release > > General notes: > - IMHO beta releases should be numbered (-beta-1, -beta-2, etc.) > - The "Overview and Setup" document contains a section on > changes from previous major versions. Would be nice to have > such a section for UIMA 3. There is also a section for > "the migration utility" (from IBM UIMA to Apache UIMA). > This could be updated with info about the new utility > for v2 to v3 migration. > - The V3 users guide looks very useful, but I need more time > to read it properly. > - The getting-started guide still talks about fetching UIMA > from our old incubator website and that the Eclipse plugins > require Java 1.5. > > Cheers, > > -- Richard > >
