Thanks Hadrian, I hadn't heard of OSEHRA but it looks interesting and like something where we should be making people aware of cTAKES!
svn vs. git -- I'm with you on preferring git, but not by so much that it's worth spending time on an argument if it turns into an argument :). As far as I know we've never really had a discussion about it. It's probably getting to the point where new developers have _only_ used git and would find it a complete roadblock to use svn but for me it's just a mild annoyance. All others you mentioned -- if you are willing to contribute a patch we are happy to accept one-off contributions, and we are also interested in growing the developer community with people who are interested in contributing regularly over time. Tim ________________________________________ From: Hadrian Zbarcea <hzbar...@gmail.com> Sent: Thursday, June 22, 2017 9:14 PM To: dev@ctakes.apache.org Subject: Proposed improvements [EXTERNAL] Last week I presented at the OSEHRA Summit about ActiveMQ (and a few other projects) and the ASF in general. I was surprised that most didn't know much about the ASF and more importantly that nobody knew about cTakes, the only (directly) healthcare related project at the ASF. There was no cTakes talk at ApacheCon in Miami, but at OSEHRA, which is all about healthcare we should have had a presence. I will probably submit a talk for next year, but until then, because I think I created a bit of interest in cTakes I went to build cTakes myself and try a few things. Some of my findings are: * test failures with openjdk; granted the docs mention oracle jdk as a prerequisite, but think it's easy to support openjdk * use of svn vs git; this is a debatable topic, but by now everybody and their uncles are on git so moving to git (which I'd recommend) would probably forster adoption (yes, I know about the github mirror) * no support for OSGi, many large players use it * improvements in logging could go a long way, starting with moving to slf4j Suggesting improvements imply that I volunteer to do a good chunk of the work, but before that I'm interested more in how much the community would welcome such improvements. I am curious what are considered more low hanging fruits, for the more controversial topics we could take them to [discuss] threads. Because every community has its own culture and I am not that familiar with the cTakes one, although I went through the mail archives, I thought a prudent first step would be to start with this. Feedback appreciated, Hadrian
