+1 To Go To Apache top level On Tue, Nov 22, 2011 at 11:03 AM, Jörn Kottmann <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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 >
