Hi all, I like the Idea of creating a roadmap. @Rafa would you be able to drive this process.
I am around until end of Juli, after that I am on vacation for ~1 month. If possible I would like to have this sorted out before my vacation. best Rupert On Wed, Jun 17, 2015 at 2:00 PM, Rafa Haro <rh...@apache.org> wrote: > Hi Fabian, > > On Wed, Jun 17, 2015 at 1:34 PM, Fabian Christ <christ.fab...@googlemail.com >> wrote: > >> 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. >> > > Maybe it is easier for you and everyone after the reorganization. Most of > us have very limited time for Stanbol, but this might could change if we > are able to catch-up everything, get a clean release with the current > codebase, build a new roadmap with the feedback of everyone that is using > Stanbol in regular basis and wants to join the discussion. > > >> >> 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. >> > > +1. I can help on this. I can also help with some ideas for the future and > start discussions around them. > > >> >> 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. >> > > ok. Let's see if we can bring together a great number of actual committers > for this. > > Cheers, > Rafa > > >> >> 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 >> -- | Rupert Westenthaler rupert.westentha...@gmail.com | Bodenlehenstraße 11 ++43-699-11108907 | A-5500 Bischofshofen | REDLINK.CO .......................................................................... | http://redlink.co/