Hi, I'm James Masanz -- if you've been on the dev list for more than a couple years, you might recognize my name from my previous contributions to cTAKES, which include having been a release manager.
I've joined the Boston Children's Hospital NLP team. I will be devoting significant energy to the next release of cTAKES, and I volunteer to be the release manager for it. My initial thoughts are that we could make the "fast dictionary lookup" be the default dictionary lookup, incorporate the dictionary GUI from sandbox, and call the release 4.0. I'm also interested in migrating the Wiki away from Confluence to Apache's moin-moin instance. I'm sure there are other things to include in the next release as well. You'll be hearing more from me over the next few weeks as I review the list of issues in Jira and get caught up with details of what's been going on while I was less active here. One thing I would like to track for release candidates would be a list of what is tested on which platforms, which could be as simple as a post with a matrix of src/bin/other vs. linux/windows/mac, and making sure we have at least one volunteer to test the install and run of a pipeline for each entry in the table. Future releases might expand on that to include tracking multiple pipelines across environments, etc. I'm happy I'm returning to being active in the cTAKES community! -- James
