Tommaso Teofili wrote: > 2009/10/13 Marshall Schor <m...@schor.com> > > >> Tommaso Teofili wrote: >> >>> I never wrote that report before, but if nobody else comes out I >>> >> volunteer >> >>> (maybe I'll ask some help here and there to gather all the informations). >>> +1 for begin the graduation process after the 2.3.0 release. >>> Tommaso >>> >>> >> Great, Thanks Tommaso! Please start by cutting/pasting a copy of our >> last report, and deleting the specific items - this will guarantee that >> the first "boiler plate" part of the report is there :-). >> >> > > > Here is the April report: > Probably best to use the July 2009 report :-) as the template, (but it probably doesn't really matter...) > >> *UIMA is a component framework for the analysis of unstructured content >> >>> such as text, audio and video. UIMA entered incubation on October 3, 2006. >>> * >>> >>> *Some recent activity: * >>> >>> - >>> >>> *OASIS (http://www.oasis-open.org) members approved the Unstructured >>> Information Management Architecture (UIMA) version 1.0 as an OASIS >>> Standard. >>> * >>> - *A new contributor, Rico Landefeld, contributed a component to >>> enable indexing annotations as fields using Lucene. * >>> - *Many bug fixes and improvements continue to be focused on UIMA-AS >>> (the asynchronous scaleout add-on to base UIMA) driven by experience with >>> users doing extensive scaleout. The fixes address error handling and >>> performance. * >>> - >>> >>> *IBM and MAYO Clinic announced a new consortium around making >>> available open-source UIMA annotators for use by the Medical / Health >>> area; >>> see http://ohnlp.org* >>> >>> *Items to complete before graduation: * >>> *We still need to attract more new committers with diverse affiliations. >>> * >>> >>> > > As far as I understand this final line can be removed too. > Right. > > > >> Some items to include: New committers added (Burn Lewis and you :-) ), >> work almost complete on 2.3.0 release, new integration with other Apache >> projects (such as Lucas - integration with Apache Lucene search). >> Another point item: The Configurable Feature Editor, including >> documentation, was refreshed, and will be >> included in the next release. >> Another point item: the next sandbox release is more than doubling the >> number of pre-done UIMA components that are available with the framework. >> Another point is that IBM announced a "grand challenge" effort to have a >> computer compete live against humans on the popular (in the USA) TV >> game, Jeopardy! in answering open-domain questions, (not connected to >> the internet), in real time - and that this system is being built upon >> UIMA and UIMA-AS (see http://www.research.ibm.com/deepqa/faq.shtml#24 ). >> >> > > I'd also add that building (Maven use optimized using parent POMs, RAT, > etc...) and code quality (generics, deprecation of stale code) have been > improved, UIMA-AS has been graduated out of the Sandbox as an add-on > package. > > > Great. Also mention the Cas Editor has been graduated out of the Sandbox and is now part of base UIMA. > >> And you can change the items to complete before graduation to saying >> it's ready to graduate, and plans to start that process after the >> current release activity is finished. >> >> Finally, if you have time, the project page ( >> http://incubator.apache.org/projects/uima.html ) needs updating, >> especially to add the new committers. >> >> Keep us posted throughout the day your progress on these - to give >> others a chance to review / update the report (as it's due tomorrow! ). >> >> > > Do I have to incrementally update the wiki while we discuss or only when we > reach a satisfiable verion of the report? > To reduce work, just update the wiki, and then post here that's it's updated; we'll take a look on the wiki and do any updates there, I think.
-Marshall > Thanks, > Tommaso > > > > > >> -Marshall >> >>> 2009/10/13 Jukka Zitting <jukka.zitt...@gmail.com> >>> >>> >>> >>>> Hi, >>>> >>>> We're again due for our quarterly report, see [1]. Anyone willing to >>>> draft the report? >>>> >>>> As for the top priorities before graduation, I think UIMA is now ready >>>> to graduate and only needs to follow the graduation process [2] to >>>> become an Apache TLP. >>>> >>>> [1] http://wiki.apache.org/incubator/October2009 >>>> [2] http://incubator.apache.org/guides/graduation.html#process >>>> >>>> BR, >>>> >>>> Jukka Zitting >>>> >>>> >>>> >>> > >
