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On 2020/11/11 17:20:49, Richard Eckart de Castilho <r...@apache.org> wrote: > Hi folks, > > I am have been working on providing UIMA with a consistent concept of how > annotations can relate to each other > (e.g. overlap, follow, precede, cover, etc.) and following this on making the > SelectFS API of UIMAv3 > consistent with this concept. While this might sound trivial, it is actually > not. E.g. figuring out in > which cases two annotations overlap if one of the annotations has a length of > 0 requires some > consideration. > > So we have talked about this topic so far on the developer list: > > > https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/rff2b9882af077907ff1ad08e90f80a62a20efbfab587a08a5e2bc78c%40%3Cdev.uima.apache.org%3E > > Now I am wondering whether it would be good to instead post such topics to > the users list > because it might be interesting to people here as well. Or maybe all those > who find this > kind of discussion are already also subscribed to the developers list and > thats ok. > > What got me thinking into potentially moving this to the users list was that > at some points, > it becomes clear that the behavior of the code (e.g. SelectFS) in some > (edge)-cases may not > have received sufficient consideration in the past and may need to be changed > to be consistent > with itself and with other parts of the framework (e.g. the annotation > relation concepts). > This could potentially break something for a user. I believe I can make good > informed decisions > when a break is so unlikely that the risk is acceptable, but I would actually > prefer to get > some community feedback, e.g. to this mail: > > > https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r640c3433db93160f77783896c182b2a8a53334434c337425040bc5d2%40%3Cdev.uima.apache.org%3E > > What do you think? > > Would you like to see this topic and maybe similar ones in the future to be > discussed on the users list instead of the developers list? > > Cheers, > > -- Richard
