I signed off on the BR, but a couple of questions:

What do we need to do on the IP front?  Is that really a blocker for 
graduation?  

Also, I don't think the regression tests are a blocker for graduation.

I did add that we need to find some more candidates for 
contributions/committership, which I do think is a blocker.  

-Grant

On Jun 8, 2011, at 12:31 PM, Jason Baldridge wrote:

> Agreed.
> 
> We also need to think about improving the situation on training data. One
> thing to think about is whether we can take advantage of DUALIST to
> bootstrap the creation of training data:
> 
> http://code.google.com/p/dualist/
> 
> Jason
> 
> On Tue, Jun 7, 2011 at 3:41 PM, Jörn Kottmann <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
>> Exactly, I fully agree with Grant. We invested a lot of time to into this
>> already, and I
>> believe we are on the right way, we need to continue this effort and be
>> patient.
>> 
>> A contributor/committer is usually a user first, and therefore we need to
>> make it as easy as possible
>> for potential users to get started and to get involved. When people start
>> using OpenNLP
>> some might need to fix/change something and contribute it back.
>> 
>> Jörn
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> On 6/7/11 10:12 PM, Grant Ingersoll wrote:
>> 
>>> One thing to think about and discuss is how to encourage/find new
>>> committers.  Nominations of individuals should be done on the PPMC (private
>>> list), but out here we should at least think about ways to help contributors
>>> become committers.  In some cases, this may mean avoiding the tendency to
>>> jump in and fix a problem before someone else, who is less experienced, can
>>> put up a patch.   Other ways, are better documentation, encouragement, etc.
>>> for those kicking the tires.    Generally speaking, my rule of thumb for
>>> nominating someone is a few good quality patches that show they get the code
>>> at a decent level as well as they show they get how the ASF and the project
>>> work and can work positively with others in the community.
>>> 
>>> Just food for thought as we move towards graduation, as I think OpenNLP is
>>> moving along quite nicely as an Incubator project.
>>> 
>>> -Grant
>>> 
>>> On Jun 6, 2011, at 3:58 AM, Jörn Kottmann wrote:
>>> 
>>> Hi all,
>>>> 
>>>> please report status items for our board report.
>>>> 
>>>> Thanks,
>>>> Jörn
>>>> 
>>> 
>> 
> 
> 
> -- 
> Jason Baldridge
> Assistant Professor, Department of Linguistics
> The University of Texas at Austin
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