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Subject: Re: [DISCUSS] Where should cTAKES models live?
From: Andy McMurry <mcmurry.andy@gmail.com>
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Date: Fri, 15 Mar 2013 11:04:58 -0700
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+1 vote for Option #2
 "models in ASF repo in a separate module"=20


On Mar 15, 2013, at 8:39 AM, "Chen, Pei" =
<Pei.Chen@childrens.harvard.edu> wrote:

> Just to recap:
> We dodged this issue in the 3.0 release by removing the models in src =
and bin from the ASF distributions (I think this is something that is =
better answered by the cTAKES community as a TLP rather than the IPMC). =
This came about because there were concerns raised by the Incubator =
community so I decided to remove the models from the 3.0 branch, but I =
left trunk as-is pending this discussion just to move things forward.
>=20
> As our mentors pointed out in the discussion [1], ASF is not a top =
down organization and we will most likely not get any official answer =
from anyone "above".  Once cTAKES is a TLP, I believe it would be up to =
the cTAKES community as  "*individuals* as part of a PMC (who are the =
ones that *release* the software) are, and are not able to do, and what =
risk they are and are not able to (implied) take on, and perform, within =
their community".
>=20
> So the question is: What should we do with the model files?  Some =
options include:
>=20
> 1)      Leave them in SourceForge/Maven Central.  Maven can download =
and include them in the convenience binaries in the ctakes-distribution =
project. Something we did quickly for 3.0, but needs to be improved if =
we go with this approach.  For example: [2]
>=20
> 2)      Leave them in the ASF repo, but separate modules/projects.
>=20
> 3)      Keep them in the same respective ASF modules under =
/src/main/resources
>=20
> I think it's nice to keep these fairly large (~1GB) and static =
resource files separate from the source code (Either option 1 or 2).  =
Also, option 1 will require a little more work by the committers/release =
managers but will definitely avoid any licensing issues/concerns.
>=20
> [1] =
http://markmail.org/search/+list:org.apache.incubator.general#query:list%3=
Aorg.apache.incubator.general%20from%3A%22Mattmann%2C%20Chris%20A%20(388J)=
%22+page:6+mid:nzquchvuvgkije3n+state:results
> [2] =
https://oss.sonatype.org/index.html#nexus-search;quick~ctakesresources :
> <dependency>
>  <groupId>net.sourceforge.ctakesresources</groupId>
>  <artifactId>ctakes-resources-assertion</artifactId>
>  <version>3.1.1-SNAPSHOT</version>
> </dependency>
> <dependency>
>  <groupId>net.sourceforge.ctakesresources</groupId>
>  <artifactId>ctakes-resources-core</artifactId>
>  <version>3.1.1-SNAPSHOT</version>
> </dependency>