Thanks for the encouraging replies. Let's see where this will go.
Cheers,
Hadrian
On 06/25/2017 01:51 AM, Andrey Kurdumov wrote:
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
