Re: Discussing changes to UIMA - on which list?

[Hai-Son Nguyen <ha...@gmail.com>]

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On 2020/11/11 17:20:49, Richard Eckart de Castilho <re...@apache.org> wrote: 
> Hi folks,
> 
> I am have been working on providing UIMA with a consistent concept of how annotations can relate to each other
> (e.g. overlap, follow, precede, cover, etc.) and following this on making the SelectFS API of UIMAv3
> consistent with this concept. While this might sound trivial, it is actually not. E.g. figuring out in
> which cases two annotations overlap if one of the annotations has a length of 0 requires some
> consideration.
> 
> So we have talked about this topic so far on the developer list:
> 
>   https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/rff2b9882af077907ff1ad08e90f80a62a20efbfab587a08a5e2bc78c%40%3Cdev.uima.apache.org%3E
> 
> Now I am wondering whether it would be good to instead post such topics to the users list
> because it might be interesting to people here as well. Or maybe all those who find this
> kind of discussion are already also subscribed to the developers list and thats ok.
> 
> What got me thinking into potentially moving this to the users list was that at some points,
> it becomes clear that the behavior of the code (e.g. SelectFS) in some (edge)-cases may not
> have received sufficient consideration in the past and may need to be changed to be consistent
> with itself and with other parts of the framework (e.g. the annotation relation concepts).
> This could potentially break something for a user. I believe I can make good informed decisions
> when a break is so unlikely that the risk is acceptable, but I would actually prefer to get
> some community feedback, e.g. to this mail:
> 
>   https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r640c3433db93160f77783896c182b2a8a53334434c337425040bc5d2%40%3Cdev.uima.apache.org%3E
> 
> What do you think? 
> 
> Would you like to see this topic and maybe similar ones in the future to be discussed on the users list instead of the developers list?
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> -- Richard