On Dec 5, 2010, at 6:11 AM, Tommaso Teofili wrote: > Hi Thilo, > > 2010/12/5 Thilo Goetz <[email protected]> > >> I've been wondering if there is something we could do >> to enhance collaboration between all the text related >> projects at Apache. For example, I used to be subscribed >> to both the Solr and the Mahout lists. Eventually though, >> I just couldn't cope with the traffic. Maybe some sort >> of [email protected] mailing list? At some point I thought >> the Lucene umbrella could be such a focal point, but the >> ASF is moving away from umbrellas like that. A low >> overhead mailing list could be the ticket, it's not a >> lot of effort, and if it doesn't take off, we just shelve >> it. WDYT? >> >> > I think that makes a lot of sense and I also wonder what can be the right > and useful way to build such a community. > As you say umbrella projects are not the way ASF is going to, maybe > text-interest ML can be a good starting point.
In my experience, unfortunately, more mailing lists only exacerbate the problem, not lessen it. Several of us are involved in all of these projects, I'd say let's get off the ground here and get used to the ASF ways and get a release under our belt, then we can collaborate more. As for Open Relevance (ORP), there are three areas of interest: 1. IP cleared corpora 2. Judgments 3. Drivers (queries, etc.) ORP started out of a need for Lucene, but it has always had a broader goal of supporting other projects (Mahout was my intent from day one, for instance) As for Solr, Drew Farris, Tom and I have code that integrates OpenNLP into Solr for our book and I think the plan always has been to use that as a basis for production ready version. That being said, Tommaso recently put up a UIMA patch for Solr, so we could just leverage OpenNLP via it's UIMA bindings too. -Grant
