Hi Julien, The process for donating to the sandbox is as follows:
a) propose something you'd like to donate, on the uima-users or uima-dev list, and see if the community is interested. This is often a bit hard to gauge - you can't always take non-response as a sign of non-interest. If you get no response, say, after 3 days, please re-post (perhaps by replying to your own initial post) asking for some response. (What can I say - people are busy, go on vacations, etc... - so it's always worth reposting if there is no response...) b) if there is some discussion, participate, and see where it goes. If it seems that there is some consensus that the community wants the donation, then create a Jira and attach the donation as a zip file or whatever makes sense. -- if the donation is *large*, we may ask for an Apache Software Grant ( http://www.apache.org/licenses/software-grant.txt ). c) The community may then have more discussion, mainly to resolve any IP issues and insure that the code has a good chance of community involvement in on-going maintenance - although for *sandbox* project, the bar is somewhat lower here - to encourage submissions :-). d) Following the discussion, the concensus will be formalized by a vote to decide to bring the donation into the sandbox. After the vote and confirming that the Software Grant (if needed) is recorded, the code will be put into the sandbox. e) Following that will be an IP - clearance form fill-out and recording (which is done by one of our mentors with our help). For reference - the IP - clearance form is here: http://incubator.apache.org/ip-clearance/ip-clearance-template.html -Marshall P.S. - if I got any of these steps wrong, please correct. I intend to post the corrected version to the website, for future reference. Julien Nioche wrote: > Dear UIMA devs, > > We have recently developed an AnnotationReader for UIMA which uses Tika to > convert the markup into annotations. The resource consists of a > CollectionReader, a CasAnnotator and a utility class which can populate a > cas with markup annotations. It is certainly not perfect but it does a > decent job. The type system is inspired see > http://cwiki.apache.org/UIMA/uima-sandbox-components.html > > I would be more than happy to donate the code to the Sandbox. What is the > procedure for that? > > Have a good week end > > Julien >
