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
