Hi Christian We haven't made a final decision on which git host to use. We thought github was faster, and had a more polished web interface. But there were a couple of important things that it didn't appear to support:
- multiple administrators - commit emails Also, the url would include the username, e.g. https://github.com/obo/mosesdecoder, which isn't really what we want, cheers - Barry Quoting Christian Rishøj Jensen <[email protected]> on Thu, 8 Sep 2011 15:10:30 +0200: > > Dear Barry, > > While I'm not a committer to Moses, I am in favor of Git in general. > But why not go all the way and host the repository at GitHub? The > added collaboration tools could prove to be valuable and conducive > for new contributions, as well as increase the transparency of the > development process. > > A short piece on the benefits: > http://bdethics.blogspot.com/2011/03/why-github-is-taking-over-universe.html > > Best > Christian > > On Sep 7, 2011, at 3:07 PM, Barry Haddow wrote: > >> Hi Lane >> >> So the secret's out... >> >> This is a mirror of the current svn repository. Updating is currently >> a manual process, kicked off by either me or Ondrej, but it may get >> automated. >> >> Moses development will probably move to git soonish, have your say in >> the doodle poll if you have an opinion about it. >> http://www.doodle.com/dgnnzdu697yxnhve >> >> At the moment, you're free to create new branches in the git >> repository, but please don't push to any branches which track svn >> branches. Otherwise BAD things will happen, >> >> cheers - Barry >> >> >> Quoting Lane Schwartz <[email protected]> on Wed, 7 Sep 2011 >> 08:54:55 -0400: >> >>> Barry, >>> >>> I wasn't aware that there was a Moses git repository. Is it just a >>> mirror of the subversion repo? Are there plans to move primary >>> development to the git repo? >>> >>> Thanks, >>> Lane >>> >>> >>> On Wed, Sep 7, 2011 at 3:49 AM, Barry Haddow >>> <[email protected]> wrote: >>>> Hi Anne >>>> >>>> Yes, there is a version of moses which supports sparse features. It is >>>> available in the moses git repository >>>> http://sourceforge.net/scm/?type=git&group_id=171520 >>>> Look for the miramerge branch. >>>> >>>> It was sync'ed from trunk within the last few weeks, and I hope to >>>> keep it reasonably up-to-date - it may eventually get merged back. >>>> >>>> Whilst this branch is failrly experimental, it does work, and has been >>>> used in experiments. I'm currently trying to improve the sparse >>>> feature code, so that it will use a dense representation of the core >>>> features. There are actually implementations of most, if not all, of >>>> the Chiang features, although I don't know if they're all checked into >>>> the repository. >>>> >>>> cheers - Barry >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> Quoting Anne Schuth <[email protected]> on Wed, 7 Sep 2011 >>>> 09:34:19 +0200: >>>> >>>>> Hi all, >>>>> >>>>> We are in the process of reimplementing some of the 11,001 new >>>>> features of >>>>> the Chiang et al. 2009 paper. We are adding a few thousand >>>>> features to our >>>>> phrase table, causing it to blow up significantly. For tuning purposes we >>>>> filter the table to only include phrases used by our tuning dataset which >>>>> brings the size on disk down to about 200MB (gzipped). However, >>>>> as soon as >>>>> we load this table into memory with Moses, it takes more than >>>>> 60GB. This is >>>>> not really a surprise I guess since Moses will represent all our 0's as >>>>> floating points, but it is a problem since not all machines I >>>>> would like to >>>>> run this on have that much memory. >>>>> This leads to my question: does Moses support some form of sparse >>>>> representation of phrase tables? Or, how is this issue generally >>>>> solved, as >>>>> I am quite sure we are not the first to try this. >>>>> >>>>> Any comments, pointers to documentation are very much appreciated! >>>>> >>>>> Best, >>>>> Anne >>>>> >>>>> -- >>>>> Anne Schuth >>>>> ILPS - ISLA - FNWI >>>>> University of Amsterdam >>>>> Science Park 904, C3.230 >>>>> 1098 XH AMSTERDAM >>>>> The Netherlands >>>>> 0031 (0) 20 525 5357 >>>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> -- >>>> The University of Edinburgh is a charitable body, registered in >>>> Scotland, with registration number SC005336. >>>> >>>> >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> Moses-support mailing list >>>> [email protected] >>>> http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/moses-support >>>> >>> >>> >>> >>> -- >>> When a place gets crowded enough to require ID's, social collapse is not >>> far away. It is time to go elsewhere. The best thing about space travel >>> is that it made it possible to go elsewhere. >>> -- R.A. 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