Niclas Hedhman wrote: > On Fri, Feb 20, 2009 at 6:58 AM, Robert Burrell Donkin > <robertburrelldon...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> We should probably try to find the collective energy to review UIMA >> before the project's enthusiasm is sapped. > > That sounds like a healthy observation. My Q for the community is; Do > you have a healthy and diverse set of users? If so, have the UIMA team > looked at "What is stopping these users from becoming contributors?" ?
Yes, we do have a healthy and diverse user community. We have racked our brains what we could do to attract more community contribution. We've created a sandbox to facilitate the inclusion of experimental technology. There's been some uptake, but not enough. Some of us are working on scale out via JMS and are hoping to attract contributions in that area. We've started discussions and suggested things for people to work on. I don't know, maybe we're going about this the wrong way. My pet hypothesis (or maybe I'm just looking for excuses) is this: UIMA is heavily used in academia. Now academics have no problems with open source, to the contrary. But they have an overwhelming need to publish and build up a reputation. So they like to publish their source code on their own web site, where it's clear it's their work, rather than contribute to some community effort. If you look around, you'll see all manner of university efforts around UIMA, but very little of that code finds its way back into the ASF repo. Enough whining. If you have any suggestions, we'll be happy to hear them. --Thilo > I could imagine a whole range of reasons, and if that is 'fixed' the > diversity comes with it... > If there is not a user community, then I would be concerned to > graduate the project with the large set of single-employer committers. > > > Cheers > Niclas --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org
