Just want to note that ASF PMC want to make GitHub primary repository and Apache servers secondary soon.
Regarding improvements: I personally want better support for embedding. Right now cTakes distribution comes with LVG and UMLS dictionary and size of cTakes thus become very. I would like to have (and work on it) much leaner distribution, let's name it cTakes Core, which will just provide cTakes executable without need for data. Right now I have constantly rip-off that data after cTakes build which slow down my build significantly. Personally I support Hadrian initiative to have better logging since cTakes setup has some quirks which could be faster resolved by better logging. 2017-06-23 17:38 GMT+06:00 Miller, Timothy < timothy.mil...@childrens.harvard.edu>: > Thanks Hadrian, I hadn't heard of OSEHRA but it looks interesting and like > something where we should be making people aware of cTAKES! > > svn vs. git -- I'm with you on preferring git, but not by so much that > it's worth spending time on an argument if it turns into an argument :). As > far as I know we've never really had a discussion about it. It's probably > getting to the point where new developers have _only_ used git and would > find it a complete roadblock to use svn but for me it's just a mild > annoyance. > > All others you mentioned -- if you are willing to contribute a patch we > are happy to accept one-off contributions, and we are also interested in > growing the developer community with people who are interested in > contributing regularly over time. > > Tim > > ________________________________________ > From: Hadrian Zbarcea <hzbar...@gmail.com> > Sent: Thursday, June 22, 2017 9:14 PM > To: dev@ctakes.apache.org > Subject: Proposed improvements [EXTERNAL] > > Last week I presented at the OSEHRA Summit about ActiveMQ (and a few > other projects) and the ASF in general. > > I was surprised that most didn't know much about the ASF and more > importantly that nobody knew about cTakes, the only (directly) > healthcare related project at the ASF. There was no cTakes talk at > ApacheCon in Miami, but at OSEHRA, which is all about healthcare we > should have had a presence. I will probably submit a talk for next year, > but until then, because I think I created a bit of interest in cTakes I > went to build cTakes myself and try a few things. > > Some of my findings are: > * test failures with openjdk; granted the docs mention oracle jdk as a > prerequisite, but think it's easy to support openjdk > * use of svn vs git; this is a debatable topic, but by now everybody and > their uncles are on git so moving to git (which I'd recommend) would > probably forster adoption (yes, I know about the github mirror) > * no support for OSGi, many large players use it > * improvements in logging could go a long way, starting with moving to > slf4j > > Suggesting improvements imply that I volunteer to do a good chunk of the > work, but before that I'm interested more in how much the community > would welcome such improvements. I am curious what are considered more > low hanging fruits, for the more controversial topics we could take them > to [discuss] threads. Because every community has its own culture and I > am not that familiar with the cTakes one, although I went through the > mail archives, I thought a prudent first step would be to start with this. > > Feedback appreciated, > Hadrian >
