As your mentor, I'd say that a TLP is the only sensible target.
On Tue, Nov 22, 2011 at 11:20 AM, Alex Holt <[email protected]> wrote: > +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 >> >
