Marshall Schor wrote:
Thilo Goetz wrote:
Hi Marshall,
as usual, my view is pretty much the exact opposite ;-)
First of all, I don't see the sense in creating yet another
category. To my mind, there's nothing wrong with having
mature components in the sandbox. The only thing I would
consider is to move some sandbox components that are really
important to people into the core.
I think people might feel that the sandbox isn't a place to get
production-quality things, and I was hoping that some of these
components were production-quality :-)
I think Thilo raised a good point here. We still have an "empty
framework" that does not provide any linguistic functionality out of the
box. So maybe we should think about moving sandbox components that are
ready to use and are important for most of the UIMA users to the core.
We could than also provide some more out of the box analytics by
combining the components.
For all the other Sandbox components that are ready to use but are not
relevant for most of the UIMA users we can consider to do a separate
release for each component. I guess the release cycles are larger for
those components so that we do not have so much Sandbox component releases.
Opinions?
-- Michael
