Dear labs, I have some code that I would like to publish at ASF. Some folks at members@ suggested labs, but I'm a bit uncertain whether it is really a good lab topic. (Me, I'm a committer and an ASF member).
The code is a mature implementation of a hard NLP algorithm of general utility, written in C++. The author, Jethran Guinness, works with me at Basis Technology Corp. While the code is in the same general topic space as the Mahout piece of the Lucene TLP, it's implementation is far away from their technology center. Aside from all other considerations, that makes it hard for me or Jethran to imagine earning committer status there. Thus the idea of labs. As I read the mission statement of the labs, I am left with two doubts. 1) The lab is defined as a place to innovate. Well, this might be innovation in the sense that there's nothing else much like this at ASF at the moment. But it's not going to change very much or very often, and there's no telling whether it will attract any related code from other committers. So it might just sit there forever. 2) Jethran is not a committer anywhere, and so while he is the author, I'd be the person requesting the lab and committing. If that's not appropriate, then I shouldn't do it. So, the question is, would you think it reasonable for me to request an NLP lab, or should we just plop it on Google Code? Thanks, benson margulies --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: labs-unsubscr...@labs.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: labs-h...@labs.apache.org
