UIMA [WAS Re: Suspending Projects]

2009-02-19 Thread Robert Burrell Donkin
On 2/19/09, Thilo Goetz wrote: > Jukka Zitting wrote: >> Hi, >> >> On Mon, Feb 16, 2009 at 7:56 PM, Noel J. Bergman wrote: >>> I have put XAP's status to a vote. What others do people feel should be >>> considered? I have several in mind, but want to hear from the Mentors >>> and >>> the Commun

Re: UIMA [WAS Re: Suspending Projects]

2009-02-19 Thread Niclas Hedhman
On Fri, Feb 20, 2009 at 6:58 AM, Robert Burrell Donkin 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 s

Re: UIMA [WAS Re: Suspending Projects]

2009-02-20 Thread Thilo Goetz
Niclas Hedhman wrote: > On Fri, Feb 20, 2009 at 6:58 AM, Robert Burrell Donkin > 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 he

Re: UIMA [WAS Re: Suspending Projects]

2009-02-20 Thread Niclas Hedhman
On Fri, Feb 20, 2009 at 4:31 PM, Thilo Goetz wrote: > 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 reput

Re: UIMA [WAS Re: Suspending Projects]

2009-02-20 Thread Thilo Goetz
Niclas Hedhman wrote: > On Fri, Feb 20, 2009 at 4:31 PM, Thilo Goetz wrote: > > > >> 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 ne

Re: UIMA [WAS Re: Suspending Projects]

2009-02-20 Thread Jukka Zitting
Hi, On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 11:58 PM, Robert Burrell Donkin wrote: > We should probably try to find the collective energy to review UIMA > before the project's enthusiasm is sapped. +1 I may be mistaken, but from the what I can tell UIMA has had to manage with barely any mentor support for the p

Re: UIMA [WAS Re: Suspending Projects]

2009-02-20 Thread Janne Jalkanen
> 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 t

Re: UIMA [WAS Re: Suspending Projects]

2009-02-20 Thread Robert Burrell Donkin
On 2/20/09, Thilo Goetz wrote: > Niclas Hedhman wrote: >> On Fri, Feb 20, 2009 at 4:31 PM, Thilo Goetz wrote: >> >> >> >>> 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 contrar

Re: UIMA [WAS Re: Suspending Projects]

2009-02-20 Thread Robert Burrell Donkin
On 2/20/09, Janne Jalkanen wrote: >> 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 >> the

Re: UIMA [WAS Re: Suspending Projects]

2009-02-20 Thread William A. Rowe, Jr.
Robert Burrell Donkin wrote: I know that we usually try to strongly encourage companies not to use apache as dumping ground but I wonder sometimes whether it might be useful to accept more contributions of proof-of-concept code especially from academia. It's often easier to start from some proof

Re: UIMA [WAS Re: Suspending Projects]

2009-02-20 Thread Otis Gospodnetic
.org > Sent: Friday, February 20, 2009 4:31:50 PM > Subject: Re: UIMA [WAS Re: Suspending Projects] > > Niclas Hedhman wrote: > > On Fri, Feb 20, 2009 at 6:58 AM, Robert Burrell Donkin > > wrote: > > > >> We should probably try to find the collective energy to r

Re: UIMA [WAS Re: Suspending Projects]

2009-02-20 Thread J Aaron Farr
On Fri 20 Feb 2009 17:23, Thilo Goetz wrote: >> Can you perhaps contact these individuals one-by-one and get their >> view on how they see it. Perhaps ask them to publish their work in >> parallel, and perhaps the 'OSS bug' will bite a couple of them?? > > I have talked to quite a few of them, a

Re: UIMA [WAS Re: Suspending Projects]

2009-02-20 Thread Otis Gospodnetic
- Solr - Nutch - Original Message > From: "William A. Rowe, Jr." > To: general@incubator.apache.org > Sent: Saturday, February 21, 2009 12:57:09 AM > Subject: Re: UIMA [WAS Re: Suspending Projects] > > Robert Burrell Donkin wrote: > > > > I know that we

Re: UIMA [WAS Re: Suspending Projects]

2009-02-21 Thread Ross Gardler
2009/2/20 Janne Jalkanen : >> 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 t

Re: UIMA [WAS Re: Suspending Projects]

2009-02-21 Thread Ross Gardler
2009/2/20 Robert Burrell Donkin : > On 2/20/09, Thilo Goetz wrote: >> Niclas Hedhman wrote: >>> On Fri, Feb 20, 2009 at 4:31 PM, Thilo Goetz wrote: >>> >>> >>> My pet hypothesis (or maybe I'm just looking for excuses) is this: UIMA is heavily used in academia.  Now academics have no >>

Re: UIMA [WAS Re: Suspending Projects]

2009-02-21 Thread Ross Gardler
. Ross > > > Otis > -- > Sematext -- http://sematext.com/ -- Lucene - Solr - Nutch > > > > - Original Message >> From: Thilo Goetz >> To: general@incubator.apache.org >> Sent: Friday, February 20, 2009 4:31:50 PM >> Subject: Re: UIMA [WAS Re

Re: UIMA [WAS Re: Suspending Projects]

2009-02-22 Thread Otis Gospodnetic
- Nutch - Original Message > From: Ross Gardler > To: general@incubator.apache.org > Sent: Saturday, February 21, 2009 10:40:12 PM > Subject: Re: UIMA [WAS Re: Suspending Projects] > > 2009/2/21 Otis Gospodnetic : > > > > Perhaps GSOC is something to con

Re: UIMA [WAS Re: Suspending Projects]

2009-02-23 Thread Ross Gardler
Ross > > Otis > -- > Sematext -- http://sematext.com/ -- Lucene - Solr - Nutch > > > > - Original Message >> From: Ross Gardler >> To: general@incubator.apache.org >> Sent: Saturday, February 21, 2009 10:40:12 PM >> Subject: Re: UIMA

Academic code drops (Re: UIMA [WAS Re: Suspending Projects])

2009-02-21 Thread Ross Gardler
2009/2/20 William A. Rowe, Jr. : > Robert Burrell Donkin wrote: >> >> I know that we usually try to strongly encourage companies not to use >> apache as dumping ground but I wonder sometimes whether it might be >> useful to accept more contributions of proof-of-concept code >> especially from acade