Hi all, I would like to start a discussion for the release of OpenNLP 2.2.0. Since the last release of 2.1.1, there have been a couple significant additions and a variety of improvements. Some notable changes include the introduction of SLF4J for logging instead of System.out, sentence-transformers support via ONNX Runtime, and tokenizer factories for additional languages. The full list is here [1].
How does the community feel about an OpenNLP 2.2.0 release? If there are no objections to a release, I will volunteer to act as the Release Manager, with the goal of paying close attention to the Release Steps [2] so we can work toward automating more of the release steps. The Jenkins job for running the nightly evaluation tests already makes things simpler. Thanks, Jeff [1] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/OPENNLP-141?jql=project%20%3D%20OPENNLP%20AND%20status%20in%20(Resolved%2C%20Closed)%20AND%20fixVersion%20%3D%202.1.2%20ORDER%20BY%20priority%20DESC%2C%20updated%20DESC [2] https://opennlp.apache.org/release.html
