Hi all,
the Incubator is not a place where we can stay forever and the time
has come to decide where we will go.
We did now two releases, where the first one was mainly about
migrating from SourceForge and the second one was developed following
the Apache-way with over 100 jira issues fixed, often with help from
our community.
The move to Apache was a great step forward. We grew our community
and made the project more attractive to other open source projects.
Theoretically we have three ways we can take, graduate to a Top Level
Project,
graduate to a Subproject or leave Apache.
Making OpenNLP a Top Level Project seems as the best option for us.
We have an open and diverse community, and I believe OpenNLP will have long
term success at Apache. Many things tremendously improved over the
SourceForge
days and we are now able to work on the project as a community, which is
really
a distinction from most other open source NLP projects.
OpenNLP sees good adaption/integration by other Apache projects, such as
Stanbol, UIMA,
Lucene/Solr (via UIMA and direct integration is planned) and Clerezza.
All these collaborations
are a good advertisement for us and will attract more users over time.
At Apache we will have a bright future and will be able to make one of the
best open source NLP toolkits.
Please express your opinion about graduating OpenNLP.
Jörn
