Hi, yes we have indeed the situation where we do not have a project owner who is doing some oversight of the project. I am the current chair of the project but also do not find the time to manage the project. I would have resigned as a chair if there was a person who would like to be in charge and become the shepherd of the project.
Anything that addresses this issue is +1 from me. If there is someone standing up and would like to clean up - go for it. In my opinion we should shrink the code base a lot and remove anything that was not touched for two years. Same for the JIRA issues. Just keep a small Stanbol kernel around the enhancer that is manageable. We started Stanbol with a much larger team during a research project but today we have to focus. And Rafa is right that this should be part of roadmap planning. Regarding a chat or meeting: We have to discuss this in the open on the mailing list. We have the credo that anything that was not discussed on the ML did not happen. So, just discuss the matters here and only move to chat or whatever if really necessary. Best - Fabian 2015-06-16 14:35 GMT+02:00 Dileepa Jayakody <dileepajayak...@gmail.com>: > +1 Rafa. I too would like to join the discussion. > > > On Tue, Jun 16, 2015 at 5:19 PM, Rafa Haro <rh...@apache.org> wrote: > >> Hi Fabian, Rupert, >> >> I have been taking a look to the Stanbol Jira and certainly there is a >> great mess there. For example, there are a lot of issues opened more than >> one or two years ago. What do you think guys about having a session for >> properly organizing this?. We can meet at the IRC channel or wherever you >> consider and talk about releases, expectations, roadmap. I have the >> impression that there is a complete lack of planning for the project. I >> know that I'm not probably the most indicated person for saying this >> because I'm far away of being a daily contributor. But maybe we can >> motivate committers again by building a great backlog and planning properly >> where the project should go. I have been using Stanbol lately for two real >> uses cases and I could share with you my impressions and provide feedback >> as functionality that would have been nice to have while developing the >> projects. >> >> It would be great also to know how other Apache projects build their >> roadmap. Maybe we find a mirror to look at. >> >> Cheers, >> Rafa >> >> On Mon, Jun 15, 2015 at 11:22 AM, Rupert Westenthaler < >> rupert.westentha...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> > On Mon, Jun 15, 2015 at 8:14 AM, Fabian Christ <fchr...@apache.org> >> wrote: >> > > here is my draft for the report. Anything to add? >> > >> > Hi Fabian >> > >> > Nothing that is so important for adding to the Report. >> > >> > On Mon, Jun 15, 2015 at 8:14 AM, Fabian Christ <fchr...@apache.org> >> wrote: >> > > The project is doing well but on a slow level. Main issue at the moment >> > > may be that there is no one who is cutting releases from time to time. >> > > The last release was cut one year ago. The project is aware of this >> > > issue and is working on it. >> > > >> > >> > Thats very true! >> > >> > Slow Progress ... >> > >> > * I updated most of the dependencies STANBOL-1419 (for both 0.12.1 and >> > trunk). So we are again using the newest Apache Sling Launcher, Apache >> > Felix. New Apache Sling logging with lock back support, ...) >> > * Added support for ixa-nerc - Named Entity Recognition models. They >> > provide much better quality models for OpenNLP. Languages: English, >> > Spanish, German, Italian and Dutch. >> > * I am also working together with Alfonso Noriega on adding support >> > for the Stanford NLP sentiment annotation. For Stanbol this will mean >> > that the Restful NLP engine will support Sentiment Annotations. >> > >> > An other issue are questions about the Contenthub and CMS Adatper that >> > we can not really handle as the original developers are no longer >> > active. During the dependency upgrades (STANBOL-1419) I noticed that >> > those components do not have any Integration tests. So while I fixed >> > all related module level issues (as reported by the unit tests) I was >> > unable to ensure that everything was working as intended at runtime >> > (as for all other components that do have integration tests). >> > >> > About Releases: >> > >> > I am happy to help with releases. Best would be if I you Fabian could >> > show me everything I need to know to create releases by my own in the >> > future. >> > >> > best >> > Rupert >> > >> > -- >> > | Rupert Westenthaler rupert.westentha...@gmail.com >> > | Bodenlehenstraße 11 ++43-699-11108907 >> > | A-5500 Bischofshofen >> > | REDLINK.CO >> > >> .......................................................................... >> > | http://redlink.co/ >> > >> -- Fabian http://twitter.com/fctwitt
