Thilo Goetz wrote:
Folks,
I'm a bit concerned about the way development of the new uima-ee/as
component is going on. I see various people submitting patches, but
I see no discussion of the development going on on this list. Please
do use the list for discussion, not some back channels. We want
everybody to have a chance to contribute, not just a chosen few.
I agree.
Several of us are working with the folks doing the uima-as work to bring
them up to speed on the Apache Way of development, so please consider
this a startup blip, caused by transitioning an active development effort.
The other reason for this blip is that the uima-as is currently in use
by several big projects, so there's discussion going on in those
projects about needs, bug reports, etc. We want to bring that
discussion over into the Apache world also, which will help motivate
work going on within uima-as. That may take some transition time too,
but that is our goal.
Also, I see big cumulative patches coming in. Don't do that. We
want to have a chance to review those patches. Even if I'm not
personally interested in the technical details of uima-ee, I still
like to review patches to watch out for IP issues (and so should
other committers). So please open a Jira issue for each problem you're
fixing or feature you're adding, and provide separate patches.
The final reason for this blip is that we're renaming uima-ee to uima-as
going forward (per another mail thread), and I was trying to get all the
outstanding "patches" put in right away, so I could do that tonight.
Not a very good excuse, I know, but ..
-Marshall
I appreciate all the hard work you're putting into this, so please
don't take this the wrong way. It is a bit more work this way, but
it helps ensure an open development process. Thanks.
--Thilo
