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| Date | Action | Decided by |
|---|---|---|
| 2020-11-18 | Appointed Richard Eckart de Castilho | the board, by resolution |
| 2010-03-17 | Appointed Marshall Schor | the board, by resolution |
| Date | Decision | Item | Outcome |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2010-03-17 | Establish the Apache UIMA Project | special order | approved |
## Description: Apache UIMA* software provides frameworks, tools and annotators, facilitating the analysis of unstructured content such as text, audio and video. * Unstructured Information Management Architecture. ## Project Status: Current project status: Ongoing (dormant with a recent wake period) Issues for the board: none ## Membership Data: Apache UIMA was founded 2010-03-17 (16 years ago) There are currently 25 committers and 17 PMC members in this project. The Committer-to-PMC ratio is roughly 7:5. Community changes, past quarter: - No new PMC members. Last addition was Pablo Duboue on 2023-03-07. - No new committers. Last addition was Pablo Duboue on 2023-03-06. ## Project Activity: * uima-ruta-3.5.1 was released on 2025-10-13. * uimaj-3.6.1 was released on 2025-10-01. * uima-ruta-3.5.0 was released on 2024-12-04. ## Community Health: There has not really been any particularly notable or significant activity to report.
## Description: Apache UIMA (*) software provides frameworks, tools and annotators, facilitating the analysis of unstructured content such as text, audio and video. (*) Unstructured Information Management Architecture. ## Project Status: Current project status: Ongoing (dormant) Issues for the board: none ## Membership Data: Apache UIMA was founded 2010-03-17 (16 years ago) There are currently 25 committers and 17 PMC members in this project. The Committer-to-PMC ratio is roughly 7:5. Community changes, past quarter: - No new PMC members. Last addition was Pablo Duboue on 2023-03-07. - No new committers. Last addition was Pablo Duboue on 2023-03-06. ## Project Activity: uima-ruta-3.5.1 was released on 2025-10-13. uimaj-3.6.1 was released on 2025-10-01. ## Community Health: There has not really been any particularly notable or significant activity to report.
## Description: Apache UIMA software provides frameworks, tools and annotators, facilitating the analysis of unstructured content such as text, audio and video. UIMA: Unstructured Information Management Architecture. ## Project Status: Current project status: Ongoing (low) Issues for the board: none ## Membership Data: Apache UIMA was founded 2010-03-17 (16 years ago) There are currently 25 committers and 17 PMC members in this project. The Committer-to-PMC ratio is roughly 7:5. Community changes, past quarter: - No new PMC members. Last addition was Pablo Duboue on 2023-03-07. - No new committers. Last addition was Pablo Duboue on 2023-03-06. ## Project Activity: uima-ruta-3.5.1 was released on 2025-10-13. uimaj-3.6.1 was released on 2025-10-01. ## Community Health: There has not really been any particularly notable or significant activity to report. 2025_09_24: gstein: Always specify the last release date. "Not in last quarter" could mean one year ago, or five years. rec: I have no clue what you are talking about. The only "quarter" in the 09 board report was "past quarter" which is part of the report template. Besides, I assume all reports come with a date attached so "last quarter" should be easily resolvable. Also, there was no release in the period of the last report, so for no release, no date can be given.
## Description: Apache UIMA (*) software provides frameworks, tools and annotators, facilitating the analysis of unstructured content such as text, audio and video. (*) Unstructured Information Management Architecture. ## Project Status: Current project status: Ongoing (low) Issues for the board: none ## Membership Data: Apache UIMA was founded 2010-03-17 (15 years ago) There are currently 25 committers and 17 PMC members in this project. The Committer-to-PMC ratio is roughly 7:5. Community changes, past quarter: - No new PMC members. Last addition was Pablo Duboue on 2023-03-07. - No new committers. Last addition was Pablo Duboue on 2023-03-06. ## Project Activity: There have been no new releases since the last board report. Still planning to do a UIMA Java SDK 3.6.1 soon. ## Community Health: Over the course of the summer, there has not really been any particularly notable or significant activity to report.
## Description: Apache UIMA (*) software provides frameworks, tools and annotators, facilitating the analysis of unstructured content such as text, audio and video. (*) Unstructured Information Management Architecture. ## Project Status: Current project status: Ongoing (low) Issues for the board: none ## Membership Data: Apache UIMA was founded 2010-03-17 (15 years ago) There are currently 25 committers and 17 PMC members in this project. The Committer-to-PMC ratio is roughly 7:5. Community changes, past quarter: - No new PMC members. Last addition was Pablo Duboue on 2023-03-07. - No new committers. Last addition was Pablo Duboue on 2023-03-06. ## Project Activity: There have been no new releases since the last board report. Hopefully we'll find some time in summer to release the UIMA Java SDK 3.6.1. ## Community Health: At present, there is little activity. Occasional user activity on the mailing list / issue tracker / Matrix channel, but again not much overall.
## Description: Apache UIMA (*) software provides frameworks, tools and annotators, facilitating the analysis of unstructured content such as text, audio and video. (*) Unstructured Information Management Architecture. ## Project Status: Current project status: Ongoing (low) Issues for the board: The board comments shown in the reporting tool from 2024_06_19 have now disappeared and been replaced by the comment from 2024_12_18. To avoid confusion about outdated board questions, it might be considered by the board to simply post a comment acknowledging having received feedback from the project which will then replace the question comment. ## Membership Data: Apache UIMA was founded 2010-03-17 (15 years ago) There are currently 25 committers and 17 PMC members in this project. The Committer-to-PMC ratio is roughly 7:5. Community changes, past quarter: - No new PMC members. Last addition was Pablo Duboue on 2023-03-07. - No new committers. Last addition was Pablo Duboue on 2023-03-06. ## Project Activity: There have been no new releases since the last board report. However, there has been some progress towards a UIMA-J 3.6.1 release in the form of some smaller bug fixes. ## Community Health: At present, there is little activity. Occasional user activity on the mailing list / issue tracker / Matrix channel, but not much overall. It seems automatically generated metrics are incorrect reporting zero activity. We had at least 2 PRs merged in the last quarter and at last 1 issue closed.
## Description: Apache UIMA (*) software provides frameworks, tools and annotators, facilitating the analysis of unstructured content such as text, audio and video. (*) Unstructured Information Management Architecture. ## Project Status: Current project status: Ongoing (low) Issues for the board: There as still board comments shown in the reporting tool from 2024_06_19. These have been responded to in the last two reports. Assuming the board has acknowledge the response, it would be great if the comments should be removed now. ## Membership Data: Apache UIMA was founded 2010-03-17 (14 years ago) There are currently 25 committers and 17 PMC members in this project. The Committer-to-PMC ratio is roughly 7:5. Community changes, past quarter: - No new PMC members. Last addition was Pablo Duboue on 2023-03-07. - No new committers. Last addition was Pablo Duboue on 2023-03-06. ## Project Activity: * uima-ruta-3.5.0 was released on 2024-12-04. * uimaj-3.6.0 was released on 2024-11-27. uimaFIT has been merged into uimaj and has ceased to exist as an independent subproject. ## Community Health: At present, there is little activity. Occasional user activity on the mailing list / issue tracker, but not much overall.
## Description: Apache UIMA (*) software provides frameworks, tools and annotators, facilitating the analysis of unstructured content such as text, audio and video. (*) Unstructured Information Management Architecture. ## Project Status: Current project status: Ongoing (low) Issues for the board: none Responses to comments: > Number of commits has dropped MoM since April 2024 .( from 61 in Jan > and to 0 in April ) . I think it's appropriate to understand deeper > about this behavior. UIMA is quite stable and while there are some logged bugs and feature ideas, there are no pressing issues. (Repeat from last report since comment still shows up in report wizard.) ## Membership Data: Apache UIMA was founded 2010-03-17 (14 years ago) There are currently 25 committers and 17 PMC members in this project. The Committer-to-PMC ratio is roughly 7:5. Community changes, past quarter: - No new PMC members. Last addition was Pablo Duboue on 2023-03-07. - No new committers. Last addition was Pablo Duboue on 2023-03-06. ## Project Activity: * No new releases since last report * uima-ruta-3.4.1 was released on 2024-02-08. * uimaFIT-3.5.0 was released on 2023-11-13. * GSoC project on UIMA C++ has completed https://lists.apache.org/thread/v7tlxm4oxdpqfzl2vsrxhdo01lp1qvyt * Work towards a UIMA Java SDK 3.6.0 release has picked up ## Community Health: At present, there is little activity. Occasional user activity on the mailing list / issue tracker, but not much overall.
## Description: Apache UIMA (*) software provides frameworks, tools and annotators, facilitating the analysis of unstructured content such as text, audio and video. (*) Unstructured Information Management Architecture. ## Project Status: Current project status: Ongoing (low) Issues for the board: none Responses to comments: > Number of commits has dropped MoM since April 2024 .( from 61 in Jan > and to 0 in April ) . I think it's appropriate to understand deeper > about this behavior . UIMA is quite stable and while there are some logged bugs and feature ideas, there are no pressing issues. ## Membership Data: Apache UIMA was founded 2010-03-17 (14 years ago) There are currently 25 committers and 17 PMC members in this project. The Committer-to-PMC ratio is roughly 7:5. Community changes, past quarter: - No new PMC members. Last addition was Pablo Duboue on 2023-03-07. - No new committers. Last addition was Pablo Duboue on 2023-03-06. ## Project Activity: * No new releases since last report * uima-ruta-3.4.1 was released on 2024-02-08. * uima-ruta-3.4.0 was released on 2024-01-19. * uimaFIT-3.5.0 was released on 2023-11-13. * Pablo hosts a GSoC project related to UIMA C++ * Pablo hosted a small UIMA intro presentation online on June 3rd 2024 which had 10 attendants and 20 likes to its LinkedIn announcement ## Community Health: Activity in particular related to UIMA C++ has picked up a bit. The online presentation was also an opportunity to get into contact with parts of the user base that is typically quiet. It might be a good idea to hold such live meetings every once in a while.
No report was submitted.
## Description: Apache UIMA (*) software provides frameworks, tools and annotators, facilitating the analysis of unstructured content such as text, audio and video. (*) Unstructured Information Management Architecture. ## Project Status: Current project status: Ongoing (low) Issues for the board: none ## Membership Data: Apache UIMA was founded 2010-03-17 (14 years ago) There are currently 25 committers and 17 PMC members in this project. The Committer-to-PMC ratio is roughly 7:5. Community changes, past quarter: - No new PMC members. Last addition was Pablo Duboue on 2023-03-07. - No new committers. Last addition was Pablo Duboue on 2023-03-06. ## Project Activity: * uima-ruta-3.4.1 was released on 2024-02-08. * uima-ruta-3.4.0 was released on 2024-01-19. ## Community Health: At present, there is little activity. Occasional user activity on the mailing list / issue tracker, but not much overall. Pablo has started picking up work on the UIMA C++ SDK again and is also now looking into creating a new website for the UIMA project.
## Description: Apache UIMA (*) software provides frameworks, tools and annotators, facilitating the analysis of unstructured content such as text, audio and video. (*) Unstructured Information Management Architecture. ## Project Status: Current project status: Ongoing (low) Issues for the board: none ## Membership Data: Apache UIMA was founded 2010-03-17 (14 years ago) There are currently 25 committers and 17 PMC members in this project. The Committer-to-PMC ratio is roughly 7:5. Community changes, past quarter: - No new PMC members. Last addition was Pablo Duboue on 2023-03-07. - No new committers. Last addition was Pablo Duboue on 2023-03-06. ## Project Activity: - uimafit-3.5.0 was released on 2023-11-13. - uimaj-3.5.0 was released on 2023-11-06. ## Community Health: At present, there is little activity. Occasional user activity on the mailing list / issue tracker, but not much overall.
## Description: Apache UIMA (*) software provides frameworks, tools and annotators, facilitating the analysis of unstructured content such as text, audio and video. (*) Unstructured Information Management Architecture. ## Project Status: Current project status: Ongoing (low) Issues for the board: none ## Membership Data: Apache UIMA was founded 2010-03-17 (13 years ago) There are currently 25 committers and 17 PMC members in this project. The Committer-to-PMC ratio is roughly 7:5. Community changes, past quarter: - No new PMC members. Last addition was Pablo Duboue on 2023-03-07. - No new committers. Last addition was Pablo Duboue on 2023-03-06. ## Project Activity: - Pablo has picked up work on the UIMA-CPP project again. - Working on new releases of UIMA Java SDK, uimaFIT and UIMA Ruta hopefully to be completed with the next weeks. ## Community Health: At present, there is little activity. Occasional user activity on the mailing list / issue tracker, but not much overall.
## Description: Apache UIMA (*) software provides frameworks, tools and annotators, facilitating the analysis of unstructured content such as text, audio and video. (*) Unstructured Information Management Architecture. ## Project Status: Current project status: Ongoing (low) Issues for the board: none ## Membership Data: Apache UIMA was founded 2010-03-17 (13 years ago) There are currently 26 committers and 18 PMC members in this project. The Committer-to-PMC ratio is roughly 7:5. Community changes, past quarter: - Pablo Duboue was added to the PMC on 2023-03-07 - Pablo Duboue was added as committer on 2023-03-06 ## Project Activity: There have been no releases during this reporting period. ## Community Health: At present, there is little activity. Occasional user activity on the mailing list, but not much overall.
## Description: Apache UIMA (*) software provides frameworks, tools and annotators, facilitating the analysis of unstructured content such as text, audio and video. (*) Unstructured Information Management Architecture. ## Issues: There are no board-level issues at this time. ## Membership Data: Apache UIMA was founded 2010-03-17 (13 years ago) There are currently 26 committers and 18 PMC members in this project. The Committer-to-PMC ratio is roughly 7:5. Community changes, past quarter: - Pablo Duboue was added as PMC member on 2023-03-07 - Pablo Duboue was added as committer on 2023-03-06 ## Project Activity: - uima-uimaj-io-jsoncas-0.5.0 was released on 2023-03-06 - uima-ruta-3.3.0 was released on 2023-02-24 - uima-uimaj-3.4.1 was released on 2023-02-24 - uima-uimafit-3.4.0 was released on 2023-02-08 - uima-uimaj-3.4.0 was released on 2023-02-02 - vote to retire of the UIMA DUCC subproject has passed - retirement in progress - vote to retire of all v2.x versions of UIMA subprojects has passed - retirement in progress - vote to retire of the UIMA C++ SDK has been canceled after a community member Pablo Duboue has stepped up volunteering to take over the maintainer role. Pablo has been onboarded as a PMC member to be able to take on the new role. ## Community Health: The community remains moderately active. ClearTK 3.0.0 has also been released now. Apache cTAKES has been informed and hopefully that now enables them (as well as some other UIMA users out there) to upgrade to UIMAv3. Anybody with a committer role on the UIMA project and an account on the ASF Slack has been invited into the Slack UIMA channel.
## Description: Apache UIMA (*) software provides frameworks, tools and annotators, facilitating the analysis of unstructured content such as text, audio and video. (*) Unstructured Information Management Architecture. ## Issues: There are no board-level issues at this time. ## Membership Data: Apache UIMA was founded 2010-03-17 (13 years ago) There are currently 25 committers and 17 PMC members in this project. The Committer-to-PMC ratio is roughly 7:5. Community changes, past quarter: - No new PMC members. Last addition was Viorel Morari on 2019-11-19. - No new committers. Last addition was Viorel Morari on 2018-09-20. ## Project Activity: - uima-uimaj-3.1.1 was released on 2022-10-31 - focus is currently to improve compatibility of the UIMA Java SDK and uimaFIT with multi-classloader such as OSGI - voting for retirement of the UIMA DUCC subproject is ongoing - voting for retirement of all v2.x versions of UIMA subprojects is ongoing. This would also affect e.g. the UIMA-AS subproject, sandbox components, etc. of which currently no v3 versions exist. - voting for retirement of the UIMA C++ SDK is ongoing. One community member has suggested to take over maintenance of the subproject and asked for a month of time to consider. - the UIMA Java SDK, uimaFIT and UIMA Ruta subprojects continue being active. New releases are tentatively scheduled for Q1 2023. ## Community Health: The community remains moderately active. Eventually, I was able to work on upgrading the non-ASF ClearTK OSS project to UIMAv3 myself. A release will probably follow in Q1 2023 and that may pave the way for e.g. Apache cTAKES to also finally upgrade to UIMAv3.
No report was submitted.
## Description: Apache UIMA (*) software provides frameworks, tools and annotators, facilitating the analysis of unstructured content such as text, audio and video. (*) Unstructured Information Management Architecture. ## Issues: There are no board-level issues at this time. ## Membership Data: Apache UIMA was founded 2010-03-17 (12 years ago) There are currently 25 committers and 17 PMC members in this project. The Committer-to-PMC ratio is roughly 7:5. Community changes, past quarter: - No new PMC members. Last addition was Viorel Morari on 2019-11-19. - No new committers. Last addition was Viorel Morari on 2018-09-20. ## Project Activity: - uima-ruta-3.2.0 was released on 2022-06-28 - uima-uimaj-io-jsoncas-0.4.0 was released on 2022-08-06 - focus is currently to improve compatibility of the UIMA Java SDK and uimaFIT with multi-classloader such as OSGI ## Community Health: The community remains moderately active. Little feedback from the user side, more activity on the developer side. There were attempts in bootstrapping contributions to the non-Apache (but UIMA-based) ClearTK OSS project to update this project to UIMAv3 and thereby also contribute to unblocking the switch of Apache cTAKES to UIMAv3 - a bit of progress has been made here...
## Description: Apache UIMA (*) software provides frameworks, tools and annotators, facilitating the analysis of unstructured content such as text, audio and video. (*) Unstructured Information Management Architecture. ## Issues: There are no board-level issues at this time. ## Membership Data: Apache UIMA was founded 2010-03-17 (12 years ago) There are currently 25 committers and 17 PMC members in this project. The Committer-to-PMC ratio is roughly 7:5. Community changes, past quarter: - No new PMC members. Last addition was Viorel Morari on 2019-11-19. - No new committers. Last addition was Viorel Morari on 2018-09-20. ## Project Activity: - uimaj-3.3.0 was released on 2022-05-09 - uimafit-3.3.0 was released on 2022-06-03 - uima-ruta and uimaj-io-json to follow soon - significant effort went into streamlining the release process to hopefully enable more frequent releases (or at least less painful) in the future ## Community Health: The community remains moderately active. Little feedback from the user side, more activity on the developer side. It appears that other projects like Apache cTAKES are stuck on UIMAv2 while the Apache UIMA project focusses on the UIMAv3 line and does not plan further v2 releases. One reason they may be stuck is a dependency on a no longer maintained third-party library (ClearTK) which relies on UIMAv2. Not clear yet if, when and how users can be brought onto UIMAv3.
## Description: Apache UIMA's mission: the creation and maintenance of open-source software related to the analysis of unstructured data, guided by the UIMA Oasis Standard. The software provides frameworks, tools and annotators, facilitating the analysis of unstructured content such as text, audio and video. ## Issues: No Board level issues at this time. ## Membership Data: Apache UIMA was founded 2010-03-17 (12 years ago) There are currently 25 committers and 17 PMC members in this project. The Committer-to-PMC ratio is roughly 7:5. Community changes, past quarter: - No new PMC members. Last addition was Viorel Morari on 2019-11-19. - No new committers. Last addition was Viorel Morari on 2018-09-20. ## Project Activity: No releases in this reporting period. Due to incoming bug reports several sub-project releases have been delayed. UIMA Java SDK 3.2.1 will likely not be released, instead we go for UIMA Java SDK 3.3.0. The new JSON format requires some more time to mature, so it was extracted into its own GitHub repo and will be released as a sub-zero version with the next release train. ## Community Health: The community continues to be moderately active if we also count in questions on Stack Overflow and activity happening in the wider UIMA eco-system (i.e. UIMA-related projects and projects using Apache UIMA). Communication around the core UIMA project is unfortunately pretty low at the moment.
## Description: Apache UIMA's mission: the creation and maintenance of open-source software related to the analysis of unstructured data, guided by the UIMA Oasis Standard. The software provides frameworks, tools and annotators, facilitating the analysis of unstructured content such as text, audio and video. ## Issues: No Board level issues at this time. ## Membership Data: Apache UIMA was founded 2010-03-17 (12 years ago) There are currently 25 committers and 17 PMC members in this project. The Committer-to-PMC ratio is roughly 7:5. Community changes, past quarter: - No new PMC members. Last addition was Viorel Morari on 2019-11-19. - No new committers. Last addition was Viorel Morari on 2018-09-20. ## Project Activity: No releases in this reporting period. A uimaFIT 2.6.0 RC1 was already up for voting but cancelled due to a bug having been discovered. Releases of uimaFIT 2.6.0 and UIMA Java SDK 3.2.1 expected for the next reporting period. Inclusion of the new JSON format hinted at in the last report scheduled for UIMA Java SDK 3.3.0. ## Community Health: The community continues to be moderately active. Activity is shifting from the users mailing list more towards GitHub PRs and StackOverflow though.
## Description: Apache UIMA's mission: the creation and maintenance of open-source software related to the analysis of unstructured data, guided by the UIMA Oasis Standard. The software provides frameworks, tools and annotators, facilitating the analysis of unstructured content such as text, audio and video. ## Issues: No Board level issues at this time. ## Membership Data: Apache UIMA was founded 2010-03-17 (11 years ago) There are currently 25 committers and 17 PMC members in this project. The Committer-to-PMC ratio is roughly 7:5. Community changes, past quarter: - No new PMC members. Last addition was Viorel Morari on 2019-11-19. - No new committers. Last addition was Viorel Morari on 2018-09-20. ## Project Activity: Recent releases: - Apache UIMA Java SDK 2.11.0 released on 2021-07-02 ## Community Health: The community continues to be moderately active and provides bug reports and PRs at times. Development of a new JSON-based data format for the UIMA CAS data has started, community feedback is trickling in.
## Description: Apache UIMA's mission: the creation and maintenance of open-source software related to the analysis of unstructured data, guided by the UIMA Oasis Standard. The software provides frameworks, tools and annotators, facilitating the analysis of unstructured content such as text, audio and video. ## Issues: No Board level issues at this time. ## Membership Data: Apache UIMA was founded 2010-03-17 (11 years ago) There are currently 25 committers and 17 PMC members in this project. The Committer-to-PMC ratio is roughly 7:5. Community changes, past quarter: - No new PMC members. Last addition was Viorel Morari on 2019-11-19. - No new committers. Last addition was Viorel Morari on 2018-09-20. ## Project Activity: Recent releases: - Apache UIMA Java SDK 3.2.0 released on 2021-05-03 - Apache UIMA uimaFIT 3.2.0 released on 2021-05-06 - Apache UIMA Ruta 3.1.0 released on 2021-05-18 ## Community Health: The community continues to be moderately active and provides bug reports and PRs at times.
## Description: Apache UIMA's mission: the creation and maintenance of open-source software related to the analysis of unstructured data, guided by the UIMA Oasis Standard. The software provides frameworks, tools and annotators, facilitating the analysis of unstructured content such as text, audio and video. ## Issues: No Board level issues at this time. ## Membership Data: Apache UIMA was founded 2010-03-17 (11 years ago) There are currently 25 committers and 17 PMC members in this project. The Committer-to-PMC ratio is roughly 7:5. Community changes, past quarter: - No new PMC members. Last addition was Viorel Morari on 2019-11-19. - No new committers. Last addition was Viorel Morari on 2018-09-20. ## Project Activity: - Cleaning up backlog on Jira - Moving more of the project's code repositories from the ASF SVN to GitHub/GitBox - Implementation of new features and bug fixes - Towards new releases of the UIMA Java SDK, uimaFIT and Ruta sub-projects - Recent releases: -- UIMA Build Resources 6 was released on 2021-02-17 -- UIMA Parent POM 14 was released on 2021-03-10 ## Community Health: The community continues to be moderately active and provides bug reports and PRs at times. The recent switch to GitHub repos facilitates the contribution process.
## Description: Apache UIMA's mission: the creation and maintenance of open-source software related to the analysis of unstructured data, guided by the UIMA Oasis Standard. The software provides frameworks, tools and annotators, facilitating the analysis of unstructured content such as text, audio and video. ## Issues: No Board level issues at this time. ## Membership Data: Apache UIMA was founded 2010-03-17 (11 years ago) There are currently 25 committers and 17 PMC members in this project. The Committer-to-PMC ratio is roughly 7:5. Community changes, past quarter: - No new PMC members. Last addition was Viorel Morari on 2019-11-19. - No new committers. Last addition was Viorel Morari on 2018-09-20. ## Project Activity: - Cleaning up backlog on Jira - Moving more of the project's code repositories from the ASF SVN to GitHub/GitBox - Ongoing work on bug fixing and new features - Implemented transition of PMC chair role from Marshall Schor to Richard Eckart de Castilho - Recent releases: -- 3.0.1ruta was released on 2020-04-17. -- 2.8.1ruta was released on 2020-04-11. -- 3.0.0ruta was released on 2019-12-09. ## Community Health: The community continues to be moderately active. GitHub's PR mechanism increasingly used for patch submission. Started involving user's mailing list in discussions about the development of features and the way certain bugs are fixed to assess user impact and to improve community engagement.
Board report for Apache UIMA, for September 2020. ## Description: Apache UIMA's mission: the creation and maintenance of open-source software related to the analysis of unstructured data, guided by the UIMA Oasis Standard. The software provides frameworks, tools and annotators, facilitating the analysis of unstructured content such as text, audio and video. ## Issues: No Board level issues at this time. ## Membership Data: Apache UIMA was founded 2010-03-16 (10 years ago) There are currently 25 committers and 17 PMC members in this project. The Committer-to-PMC ratio is roughly 7:5. Community changes, past quarter: - No new PMC members. Last addition was Viorel Morari on 2019-11-18. - No new committers. Last addition was Viorel Morari on 2018-09-20. ## Project Activity: ### Releases: 0 releases in last quarter 4 releases previous quarter 11 April 2020: Apache UIMA Ruta 2.8.1 17 April 2020: Apache UIMA Ruta 3.0.1 26 April 2020: Apache uimaFIT 2.5.0 12 May 2020: Apache uimaFIT 3.1.0 ## Activity: UIMA AS completed the process of switching to GIT. Work was done as to switch our Jenkins automation to the new build infrastructure, for several projects. Issues at a slow/moderate pace are continuing to be reported and fixed mainly in uimaFIT and Ruta. Work on other projects slowed during this last quarter. ## Community Health: The community continues to be moderately active.
## Description: Apache UIMA's mission: the creation and maintenance of open-source software related to the analysis of unstructured data, guided by the UIMA Oasis Standard. The software provides frameworks, tools and annotators, facilitating the analysis of unstructured content such as text, audio and video. ## Membership Data: Apache UIMA was founded 2010-03-16 (10 years ago) There are currently 25 committers and 17 PMC members in this project. The Committer-to-PMC ratio is roughly 7:5. Community changes, past quarter: - No new PMC members. Last addition was Viorel Morari on 2019-11-18. - No new committers. Last addition was Viorel Morari on 2018-09-20. ## Project Activity: ### Releases: 4 releases in last quarter: 11 April 2020: Apache UIMA Ruta 2.8.1 17 April 2020: Apache UIMA Ruta 3.0.1 26 April 2020: Apache uimaFIT 2.5.0 12 May 2020: Apache uimaFIT 3.1.0 ## Activity: Work continues on getting the uima-cpp (the C++ support) working on modern versions of Linux, focusing on multi-linux-version building. Git transitions: UIMA Ruta switched to GIT this quarter. UIMA AS is in the process of switching to GIT. Issues at a slow/moderate pace are continuing to be reported and fixed in core UIMA, uimaFIT, Ruta, uima-as, and uima-ducc. Activity seems to have picked up a bit during the Covid-19 period, perhaps because people have a bit more time at home to work on things. ## Community Health: The community continues to be moderately active. ## Issues: No Board level issues at this time.
Board report for Apache UIMA, for March 2020. ## Description: Apache UIMA's mission: the creation and maintenance of open-source software related to the analysis of unstructured data, guided by the UIMA Oasis Standard. The software provides frameworks, tools and annotators, facilitating the analysis of unstructured content such as text, audio and video. ## Membership Data: Apache UIMA was founded 2010-03-16 (10 years ago) There are currently 25 committers and 17 PMC members in this project. The Committer-to-PMC ratio is roughly 7:5. Community changes, past quarter: - No new PMC members. Last addition was Viorel Morari on 2019-11-18. - No new committers. Last addition was Viorel Morari on 2018-09-20. ## Project Activity: ### Releases: No releases in last quarter ## Activity: Major work continues on getting the uima-cpp (the C++ support) working on modern versions of Linux. UIMA Issues at a slow/moderate pace are continuing to be reported and fixed in core UIMA, uimaFIT, Ruta, uima-as, and uima-ducc. A request to INFRA to move the uima-as project to GIT from SVN was made January 20, and we're awaiting INFRA action on this. ( https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/INFRA-19750 ) ## Community Health: The community continues to be moderately active. ## Issues: No Board level issues at this time.
## Description: Apache UIMA's mission: the creation and maintenance of open-source software related to the analysis of unstructured data, guided by the UIMA Oasis Standard. The software provides frameworks, tools and annotators, facilitating the analysis of unstructured content such as text, audio and video. ## Membership Data: Apache UIMA was founded 2010-03-16 (10 years ago) There are currently 25 committers and 17 PMC members in this project. The Committer-to-PMC ratio is roughly 7:5. Community changes, past quarter: - Viorel Morari was added to the PMC on 2019-11-18 - No new committers. Last addition was Viorel Morari on 2018-09-20. ## Releases: 3 releases in last quarter uimaj-3.1.1 was released on 2019-11-08. UIMA Ruta 2.8.0 was released on 2019-11-28. UIMA Ruta 3.0.0 was released on 2019-12-09. ## Activity: The uimaj-3.1.1 was the first release of uimaj after migrating that project from SVN to GIT. The Ruta 3.0.0 is the first release of Ruta that depends on the newer release stream of core uima version 3. The uima-cpp subproject was (after many years of dormancy) upgraded to current levels of C++ compiler tool chains and associated dependencies; we hope a release will be forthcoming after some more testing, soon. ## Community Health: The community continues to be moderately active. ## Issues: No Board level issues at this time.
Board report for Apache UIMA, for September 2019.
## Description:
Apache UIMA's mission: the creation and maintenance of open-source software
related to the analysis of unstructured data, guided by the UIMA Oasis
Standard. The software provides frameworks, tools and annotators,
facilitating the analysis of unstructured content such as text, audio and
video.
## Membership Data:
Apache UIMA was founded 2010-03-16 (9.5 years ago)
There are currently 25 committers and 16 PMC members in this project.
The Committer-to-PMC ratio is roughly 7:4.
Community changes, past quarter:
- No new PMC members. Last addition was Lou DeGenaro on 2016-05-02.
- No new committers. Last addition was Viorel Morari on 2018-09-20.
## Releases:
2 releases in last quarter
uimaj-3.1.0 was released on 2019-08-15.
uimaj-2.10.4 was released on 2019-08-09.
## Board question from last report: druggeri:
>> It's good to see new contributors.
>> Any prospects for new PMC members... it's been a while.
We do not currently have any new PMC member prospects,
but we keep our eye out for some.
Activity:
After the release of uimaj, we started the work to migrate
that project from SVN to GIT.
This has been a slow and difficult process,
due mainly to a couple of things
1) the documentation for GIT at apache
leaves several things undocumented, and also includes
apparently out-of-date information.
See for example,
https://issues.apache.org/jira/projects/LEGAL/issues/LEGAL-478
(read the comments)
2) simple modifications for one's project's GIT repository
such as renaming a branch, sometimes require filing of
INFRA Jira issues, and due to current load,
these appear in their KANBAN queue that's 100's of items long.
See https://issues.apache.org/jira/projects/INFRA, and
choose the KANBAN view on the left-hand navigation.
The result is that with the current INFRA staffing resources,
it can take more than a week to get these acted on.
Community Health: The community continues to be moderately active;
some new contributors doing patches.
Issues: No Board level issues at this time.
Board report for Apache UIMA, for June 2019.
Apache UIMA's mission: the creation and maintenance of open-source software
related to the analysis of unstructured data, guided by the UIMA Oasis
Standard.
## PMC changes:
- Currently 16 PMC members.
- No new PMC members added in the last 3 months
- Last PMC addition was Lou DeGenaro on Mon May 02 2016
## Committer base changes:
- Currently 25 committers.
- Last new committer: Viorel Morari added as a committer on Thu Sep 20 2018
## Releases:
3 releases in the last quarter:
- 10 April 2019: UIMA Java SDK 3.0.2 (the core component)
- 16 April 2019: uimaFIT 3.0.0 - the first release of uimaFIT
supporting the core version 3 level
- 26 April 2019: DUCC 3.0.0 - a major update to the scaleout software
supporting running on clusters
Activity:
The DUCC release included a fix for a CVE issue.
UIMA DUCC project working on multiple fixups/cleanups
following the 3.0.0 release.
The core UIMA Java SDK working on minor cleanups and bug fixes
for some edge cases.
Community: The community continues to be moderately active;
some new contributors doing patches.
Issues: No Board level issues at this time.
Board report for Apache UIMA, for March 2019. Apache UIMA's mission: the creation and maintenance of open-source software related to the analysis of unstructured data, guided by the UIMA Oasis Standard. ## PMC changes: - Currently 16 PMC members. - No new PMC members added in the last 3 months - Last PMC addition was Lou DeGenaro on Mon May 02 2016 ## Committer base changes: - Currently 25 committers. - Last new committer: Viorel Morari was added as a committer on Thu Sep 20 2018 ## Releases: 1 releases of UIMA Ruta - Ruta 2.7.0 was released on 24 February 2019 Activity: UIMA DUCC project has been working on a release, with several release candidates. The core UIMA Java SDK version 3.0.2 is recently posted for voting. Community: The community continues to be moderately active. Issues: No Board level issues at this time. -Marshall Schor
Board report for Apache UIMA, for December 2018. Apache UIMA's mission: the creation and maintenance of open-source software related to the analysis of unstructured data, guided by the UIMA Oasis Standard. ## PMC changes: - Currently 16 PMC members. - No new PMC members added in the last 3 months - Last PMC addition was Lou DeGenaro on Mon May 02 2016 ## Committer base changes: - Currently 25 committers. - Last new committer: Viorel Morari was added as a committer on Thu Sep 20 2018 ## Releases: 2 releases of the main UIMA Java SDK were done; - 2.10.3SDK was released on Wed Nov 28 2018 - 3.0.1SDK was released on Wed Nov 28 2018 Activity: We updated our project-wide parent POM to current levels, and incorporated changes to accommodate Apache policies on changes to SHA1 / MD5 checksums. We upgraded our build release process to work with Java 11, as well as Java 8. The Java SDK, uimaFIT, UIMA-AS, DUCC, RUTA are actively being worked on. The UIMA C++ version, after a long while of no volunteers to work on it, has sprung to life, with one new contributor working to upgrade it to current levels and get the test cases working again. Community: The community continues to be moderately active. Issues: No Board level issues at this time.
Board report for Apache UIMA, for September 2018. Apache UIMA's mission: the creation and maintenance of open-source software related to the analysis of unstructured data, guided by the UIMA Oasis Standard. ## PMC changes: - Currently 16 PMC members. - No new PMC members added in the last 3 months - Last PMC addition was Lou DeGenaro on Mon May 02 2016 ## Committer base changes: - voting on new committer now. - Currently 24 committers. - No new committers added in the last 3 months - Last committer addition was William Colen at Wed Apr 19 2017 ## Releases: - no new releases this quarter. We almost had one, but it was delayed so we could work on the new policy around checksums - last release was UIMA ConceptMapper addon 2.10.2 on 27 April 2018 Activity: This summer quarter has been a bit quieter than usual. Java SDK, UIMA-FIT, UIMA-AS, DUCC, RUTA are actively being worked on. Two new ICLAs and one CCLA received. Mailing list activity remains moderate. Community: The community continues to be moderately active. Issues: No Board level issues at this time.
Board report for Apache UIMA, for June 2018. Apache UIMA's mission: the creation and maintenance of open-source software related to the analysis of unstructured data, guided by the UIMA Oasis Standard. ## PMC changes: - Currently 16 PMC members. - No new PMC members added in the last 3 months - Last PMC addition was Lou DeGenaro on Mon May 02 2016 ## Committer base changes: - Currently 24 committers. - No new committers added in the last 3 months - Last committer addition was William Colen at Wed Apr 19 2017 ## Releases: - UIMA Asynchronous Scaleout (UIMA-AS) 2.10.3 was released on Mon Apr 16 2018 - UIMA-DUCC 2.2.2 was released on Sun Mar 18 2018 - UIMA ConceptMapper addon 2.10.2 was released 27 April 2018 Activity: Java SDK, UIMA-FIT, UIMA-AS, DUCC, RUTA are actively being worked on. uimaFIT moved to GIT from SVN, the first project within UIMA to do so. Mailing list activity remains moderate. Community: The community continues to be moderately active. Issues: No Board level issues at this time.
Board report for Apache UIMA, for March 2018. Apache UIMA's mission: the creation and maintenance of open-source software related to the analysis of unstructured data, guided by the UIMA Oasis Standard. Dates: 05 Mar 2018 (new) last release - UIMA Java SDK 3.0.0 03 May 2016 (no change) last PMC addition 18 Apr 2017 (no change) last Committer addition Releases: 05 Mar 2018 Apache UIMA Java SDK 3.0.0 07 Feb 2018 Apache UIMA Asynchronous Scaleout (UIMA-AS) 2.10.2 Activity: Java SDK, UIMA-AS, DUCC, RUTA are actively being worked on. The Java SDK version 3.0.0 was finally released after an extensive ramp up involving 2 alpha releases and one beta release. Our last committer addition was William Colen, who is contributing to the C++ implementation of the UIMA framework. Mailing list activity remains moderate. Community: The community continues to be moderately active. There has been a bit of discussion around moving more to GIT; some are in favor; others feel it would be a significant workload increase for which they don't have time. Issues: No Board level issues at this time.
Apache UIMA's mission: the creation and maintenance of open-source software related to the analysis of unstructured data, guided by the UIMA Oasis Standard. Dates: 14 Nov 2017 (new) last release - Apache uimaFIT 2.4.0 03 May 2016 (no change) last PMC addition 18 Apr 2017 (no change) last Committer addition Releases: 14 Nov 2017 Apache UIMA uimaFIT 2.4.0 09 Nov 2017 Apache Java SDK 3.0.0-beta 03 Nov 2017 Apache UIMA DUCC 2.2.1 Activity: Most major projects (Java SDK, DUCC, uimaFIT, RUTA) are actively being worked on. The Java SDK version 3 reached the beta version in a release. We successfully made our first use of the Symantec Jar-signing service (kudos to Mark Thomas for helping out in several admin issues). Mailing list activity remains moderate, with people from the extended community helping out by answering questions. Community: The community continues to be moderately active. Issues: No Board level issues at this time.
Board report for Apache UIMA, for September 2017. Apache UIMA's mission: the creation and maintenance of open-source software related to the analysis of unstructured data, guided by the UIMA Oasis Standard. Dates: 30 Aug 2017 (new) last release - Apache UIMA DUCC 2.2.1 03 May 2016 (no change) last PMC addition 18 Apr 2017 (no change) last Committer addition Releases: 30 Aug 2017 Apache UIMA DUCC 2.2.1 29 Aug 2017 Apache Java SDK 2.10.1 24 Jul 2017 Apache UIMA Ruta 2.6.1 Activity: Most major projects (Java SDK, DUCC, uimaFIT, RUTA) are actively being worked on. The Java SDK version 3 had another release candidate for a beta version. Testing of version 3 with other parts of UIMA is being done, as part of the beta version release candidate. Mailing list activity remains moderate, with people from the extended community helping out by answering questions. Community: The community continues to be moderately active. Issues: No Board level issues at this time.
Board report for Apache UIMA, for June 2017. Apache UIMA's mission: the creation and maintenance of open-source software related to the analysis of unstructured data, guided by the UIMA Oasis Standard. Dates: 04 Apr 2017 (new) last release - Apache UIMA Java SDK 2.10.0 03 May 2016 (no change) last PMC addition 18 Apr 2017 (new) last Committer addition Releases: 04 Apr 2017 Apache UIMA Java SDK 2.10.0 29 Mar 2017 Apache uimaFIT 2.3.0 19 Mar 2017 Apache UIMA Java SDK 3.0.0-alpha02 10 Mar 2017 Apache UIMA Ruta 2.6.0 Activity: All major projects (Java SDK, DUCC, uimaFIT, RUTA, C++) are actively being worked on. The Java SDK version 3 is progressing towards a beta version (after 2 alpha releases). Mailing list activity remains moderate, with people from the extended community helping out by answering questions. Community: The community continues to be moderately active. We added a new committer, who has started work on a release candidate for the C++ version of UIMA. Issues: No Board level issues at this time.
Board report for Apache UIMA, for March 2017.
Apache UIMA's mission: the creation and maintenance of open-source
software related to the analysis of unstructured data, guided by the
UIMA Oasis Standard.
Dates:
23 Feb 2017 (new) last release - Apache UIMA DUCC 2.2.0
03 May 2016 (no change) last PMC addition
24 Jul 2015 (no change) last Committer addition
Releases:
23 Feb 2017 Apache UIMA DUCC 2.2.0
30 Jan 2017 Apache UIMA Java SDK 3.0.0-alpha
Alpha release of significant new internal
implementation of core UIMA Java framework
15 Dec 2016 Apache UIMA Asynchronous Scaleout (UIMA-AS) 2.9.0
many upgrades, improvements, fixes
Other Activity:
Two release candidate votes are pending.
Community:
Response to board question for previous report:
idf: No new committer for over a year - any candidates?
We did reach out in one project to see if a contributor
might be interested, but got a not-at-this-time response.
We are watching some other people who have started with
some initial contributions.
The community continues to be moderately active.
Actively working on boosting prioritization for work on
UIMA CPP; this (sub)project has had pending fixes that haven't been
applied and needs a new release.
Issues:
No Board level issues at this time.
Board report for Apache UIMA, for December 2016.
Apache UIMA's mission: the creation and maintenance of open-source
software related to the analysis of unstructured data, guided by the
UIMA Oasis Standard.
Dates:
28 Sep 2016 (new) last release - Apache UIMA Ruta 2.5.0
03 May 2016 (no change) last PMC addition
24 Jul 2015 (no change) last Committer addition
Releases:
28 Sep 2016 Apache UIMA Ruta 2.5.0
many upgrades, improvements, fixes
Other Activity:
At infra's request, fixed a test case running as part of
Jenkins build for UIMA-AS that opened an RMI port.
We fixed the test harness and configured it to not open
this port. Infra chat support was very helpful in
getting this resolved.
Apache UIMA AS subproject in release vote (pending).
Community:
The community continues to be moderately active.
Issues:
No Board level issues at this time.
Board report for Apache UIMA, for September 2016.
Apache UIMA's mission: the creation and maintenance of open-source
software related to the analysis of unstructured data, guided by the
UIMA Oasis Standard.
Dates:
30 Aug 2016 (new) last release - Apache UIMA Java SDK 2.9.0
03 May 2016 (no change) last PMC addition
24 Jul 2015 (no change) last Committer addition
Releases:
30 Aug 2016 Apache UIMA Java SDK 2.9.0 - bug fixes + 2 new features
08 Aug 2016 Apache DUCC 2.1.0 many updates and upgrades
of contained subcomponents
Other Activity:
Apache UIMA Ruta subproject in release vote (pending).
Dev mailing lists had more discussions around various directional
issues for the experimental UIMA V3 work, such as backward
compatibility concerns, and the best ways to exploit Java 8 idioms.
Reported an Infra issue
https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/INFRA-12551
where the mechanism that ties SVN updates to Jira issues
(an important facility) via commit message tagging, stopped working
in mid June for many Apache projects.
Community:
The community continues to be moderately active.
Issues:
No Board level issues at this time.
Board report for Apache UIMA, for June 2016.
Apache UIMA's mission: the creation and maintenance of open-source
software related to the analysis of unstructured data, guided by the
UIMA Oasis Standard.
Dates:
20 May 2016 (new) last release - Apache UIMA-AS 2.8.1
(UIMA Asynchronous Scalout)
03 May 2016 (new) last PMC addition
24 Jul 2015 (no change) last Committer addition
Releases:
06 Apr 2016 Apache uimaFIT 2.2.0 this had many bug fixes and improvements, and
upgrades to dependencies
20 May 2016 Apache UIMA-AS 2.8.1 this was an upgrade of many dependencies
to later release levels.
Other Activity:
Work on the experimental UIMA Version 3 core is focused on getting a
migration path that is easy for the user community.
UIMA Ruta (Rules Text Language and workbench) and DUCC continue to be very
active.
Community:
The community continues to be moderately active.
Issues:
No Board level issues at this time.
Apache UIMA's mission: the creation and maintenance of open-source
software related to the analysis of unstructured data, guided by the
UIMA Oasis Standard.
Dates:
15 Feb 2016 (new) last release - Apache UIMA RUTA 2.4.0
(Rules Text Language and workbench)
12 Mar 2013 (no change) last PMC addition
24 Jul 2015 (no change) last Committer addition
Releases:
15 Feb 2016 Apache UIMA RUTA 2.4.0 - this was a large-ish collection of new
features and bug fixes
Other Activity:
The experimental UIMA Version 3 core has advanced to having all but 3 of the
core test cases running. Next phase will involve compatibility testing and
building bridges from the current to the new version, a potentially non-trivial
task.
UIMA Ruta (Rules Text Language and workbench) and DUCC continue to be very
active. Work is also underway to do a release of UIMA-AS to upgrade several
of the components within it. One component, ActiveMQ, was identified as
having security issues, and the upgrade will resolve those.
We began work with Mark Thomas (of Apache) on two initiatives - code signing,
and looking at the results of the SRC CLR scanning for code vulnerabilities -
this is currently ongoing work.
A Committer and PMC member, Richard Eckart de Castilho, gave an Apache UIMA
lightning talk at the Apache Software Foundation Roadshow event in
Karlsruhe, Germany. http://jug-karlsruhe.de/content/apache-software-foundation/
We managed with help from various sources within Apache to guess the owner of
the Twitter account named Apache UIMA, and also managed to reclaim that account;
this was done without invoking trademark infringement claims.
it is now under control of Apache UIMA PMC members, and will be used to
tweet Apache UIMA significant events.
Community:
The community continues to be moderately active.
Issues:
No Board level issues at this time.
Board report for Apache UIMA, for December 2015. Apache UIMA's mission: the creation and maintenance of open-source software related to the analysis of unstructured data, guided by the UIMA Oasis Standard. Dates: 26 Oct 2015 (new) last release - Apache UIMA DUCC 2.0.1 12 Mar 2013 (no change) last PMC addition 24 Jul 2015 (no change) last Committer addition Releases: 26 Oct 2015: UIMA DUCC 2.0.1 released - a bug fix release Other Activity: Implementation on the experimental UIMA Version 3 core has advanced to the point where a significant number of test cases are passing. UIMA Ruta (Rules Text Language and workbench) and DUCC continue to be very active. Community: The community continues to be moderately active with some contributions coming from a couple of new people. An official communication from the UK Ministry of Defence announced a text analytics framework based on UIMA, see https://www.gov.uk/government/news/dstl-adds-to-open-source-software Issues: No Board level issues at this time.
Board report for Apache UIMA, for September 2015.
Apache UIMA's mission: the creation and maintenance of open-source
software related to the analysis of unstructured data, guided by the
UIMA Oasis Standard.
Dates:
25 Aug 2015 (new) last release - Apache UIMA Ruta 2.3.1
12 Mar 2013 (no change) last PMC addition
24 Jul 2015 (new) last Committer addition
Releases:
22 Jul 2015: UIMA Java SDK 2.8.0 released - restoring some accidentally
dropped public APIs
11 Aug 2015: UIMA Java SDK 2.8.1 released - a few bug fixes found in 2.8.0
after release
11 Aug 2015: UIMA DUCC 2.0.0 released - a major release with many new
features and bug fixes
25 Aug 2015: UIMA Ruta 2.3.1 released - bugfix release
Other Activity:
Received a software grant for the donation of a rework of the UIMA innards.
Work continues documenting various ideas, tradeoffs,
and diagrams explaining some of the more subtle points about UIMA innards.
These are on our confluence wiki.
The person we talked with at ApacheCon contributed some improvements to a
visualization tool; these were incorporated into our UIMA 2.8.0 release.
We participated in the documentary video about the ASF via a video call.
Community:
The community continues to be moderately active with some contributions
coming from a couple of new people.
Issues:
No Board level issues at this time.
Apache UIMA's mission: the creation and maintenance of open-source software related to the analysis of unstructured data, guided by the UIMA Oasis Standard. Dates: 08 Jun 2015 (new) last release 12 Mar 2013 (no change) last PMC addition 24 Dec 2013 (no change) last Committer addition Releases: UIMA Ruta 2.3.0 released, with better integration with Maven, extensions and simplification of the rules language, improvements to analysis engines including the HtmlConverter, and many bug fixes. http://uima.apache.org/news.html#08 June 2015 Other Activity: A major potential contribution was posted to our Jira, which reimplements much of the "innards" of UIMA core using more standard Java constructions, in an attempt to support better concurrancy on processors with large numbers (e.g. 64) of cores. This work is a proof-of-concept, and is being evaluated. The community has asked the donor to submit a software grant so we can take this through IP clearance and put it into our SVN for further study and evaluation. This has prompted some new wiki pages documenting various ideas, tradeoffs, and diagrams explaining some of the more subtle points about UIMA innards. These are on our confluence wiki. As a side note, a big thank you to infra for the upgrades to the wiki, in support of nice diagramming tooling! 3 people including 2 PMC members gave UIMA-related talks at Apachecon 2015 in Austin. We heard from one person that they attended ApacheCon just to be able to meet with the UIMA team. One person subsequently has started contributing to the project. Based on an ApacheCon talk which suggested talking with your community where they like to talk, more people have started responding to UIMA questions on StackOverflow, a popular website for these kinds of questions. We have agreed to participate in the documentary video about the ASF; a video call is planned for later this month. Besides UIMA Ruta (which had a release), UIMA DUCC is progressing toward a next release, and core UIMA development continues to be quite active. Community: The community continues to be moderately active. A new person has started committing improvements to one of the core UIMA tools. Issues: No Board level issues at this time.
Apache UIMA's mission: the creation and maintenance of open-source software related to the analysis of unstructured data, guided by the UIMA Oasis Standard. Dates: 06 Mar 2015 last release 12 Mar 2013 last PMC addition 24 Dec 2013 last Committer addition Releases: UIMA Java SDK 2.7.0 was just released, it has many significant improvements and fixes. http://uima.apache.org/news.html#06 March 2015 Other Activity: 4 talks involving UIMA were submitted to Apachecon 2015, and 2 were accepted; a 3rd one is "pending" and may be accepted depending on whether or not a slot opens up. Core UIMA, UIMA DUCC, and UIMA Ruta are all quite active. The mailing lists are fairly active, and normal bug finding/fixing work continues. Community: The community continues to be active, with some new contributions coming in, especially for UIMA Ruta. UIMA-DUCC continues to have some traffic on the email lists as users start using it. Issues: No Board level issues at this time.
Apache UIMA's mission: the creation and maintenance of open-source
software related to the analysis of unstructured data, guided by the
UIMA Oasis Standard.
Dates:
23 Oct 2014 last release
12 Mar 2013 last PMC addition
24 Dec 2013 last Committer addition
2 Releases:
23 Oct 2014 UIMA-DUCC (Distributed UIMA Cluster Controller)
1.1.0 released
http://uima.apache.org/news.html#23 October 2014
23 Sept 2014 UIMA Ruta (rule based scripting w/ Eclipse workbench)
2.2.1 released
http://uima.apache.org/news.html#23 September 2014
Other Activity:
A Youtube channel for UIMA was started, to post tutorials;
you can see it here:
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC1YKyoL1W-xNHs9cv4U1V9g
There are many other previous tutorials about UIMA on youtube, posted
by various individuals, as well.
Core UIMA is quite active, working towards a next release, which will
include JSON serialization, in support of the trend toward Cloud deployments.
The mailing lists are fairly active, and normal bug finding/fixing
work continues.
Community:
The community continues to be active, with some new contributions coming in,
including some video tutorials which were posted on Youtube.
UIMA-DUCC is starting to get traffic on the email lists as users
start using it.
Issues:
No Board level issues at this time.
Apache UIMA's mission: the creation and maintenance of open-source
software related to the analysis of unstructured data, guided by the
UIMA Oasis Standard.
Dates:
14 July 2014 last release
12 Mar 2013 last PMC addition
24 Dec 2013 last Committer addition
2 Releases:
16 July 2014 UIMA-AS (Asynchronous Scaleout support for UIMA) 2.6.0 released
http://uima.apache.org/news.html#16 July 2014
12 June 2014 uimaFIT 2.1.0 released
http://uima.apache.org/news.html#12 June 2014
Other Activity:
UIMA DUCC (Distributed UIMA Cluster Controller) work is very active and
progressing toward a next release.
Core UIMA is close to being able to add JSON serialization, in support
of the trend toward Cloud deployments.
UIMA Ruta (Rule-based script language supported by Eclipse tooling) is
about to release the next version (vote underway).
The mailing lists are fairly active, and normal
bug finding/fixing work continues.
Community:
A workshop with a strong focus on UIMA was held in conjunction with COLING 2014,
the International Conference on Computational Linguistics, and UIMA Ruta
was demonstrated here as well. http://uima.apache.org/coling14.html
Several new contributers have started contributing, especially to Ruta.
Issues:
No Board level issues at this time.
Apache UIMA's mission: the creation and maintenance of open-source
software related to the analysis of unstructured data, guided by the
UIMA Oasis Standard.
Dates:
12 May 2014 last release
12 Mar 2013 last PMC addition
24 Dec 2013 last Committer addition
2 Releases:
12 May 2014 UIMA Java SDK 2.6.0 released
http://uima.apache.org/news.html#12 May 2014
15 Apr 2014 UIMA Ruta 2.2.0 released
http://uima.apache.org/news.html#15 April 2014
Other Activity:
DUCC website improved with links to demo server.
uimaFIT is in a new release vote as I write this.
Major work continues on DUCC and Ruta.
The mailing lists are fairly active, and normal
bug finding/fixing work continues.
Community: no change
Issues: No Board level issues at this time.
Apache UIMA's mission: the creation and maintenance of open-source
software related to the analysis of unstructured data, guided by the
UIMA Oasis Standard.
Dates:
30 Jan 2014 last release
12 Mar 2013 last PMC addition
24 Dec 2013 last Committer addition
2 Releases:
30 Jan 2014 UIMA-DUCC 1.0.0 released
http://uima.apache.org/news.html#30 January 2014
DUCC = Distributed UIMA Cluster Computing
14 Jan 2014 UIMA Java SDK 2.5.0 released
http://uima.apache.org/news.html#14 January 2014
Other Activity:
Worked with Infra to set up a demo web-server for DUCC
here: http://uima-ducc-vm.apache.org:42133/jobs.jsp
The main web page was augmented to reflect the growing
number of significant components: Ruta, DUCC, and uimaFIT
were added to the big picture.
Major work continues on DUCC and Ruta. The core Java
framework is being improved to better support large
multi-core processors.
The mailing lists are fairly active, and normal
bug finding/fixing work continues.
Community:
1 committer added in December.
Issues:
No Board level issues at this time.
Apache UIMA's mission: the creation and maintenance of open-source
software related to the analysis of unstructured data, guided by the
UIMA Oasis Standard.
Dates:
14 Nov 2013 last release
12 Mar 2013 last PMC addition
5 Nov 2013 last Committer addition
2 Releases:
2.1.0 release of UIMA Ruta 20 Sep 2013
http://uima.apache.org/news.html#20 September 2013
2.4.2 release of UIMA Asynchronous Scaleout 14 Nov 2013
http://uima.apache.org/news.html#14 November 2013
Other Activity:
A Git repo is being added.
A UIMA workshop and tutorial was held at the
International Conference of the German Society for Computational
Linguistics and Language Technology (GSCL) 2013 (23-24. Sept.).
This workshop was co-organized by two of the Apache UIMA project's
committers.
Community:
2 committers added in November.
Issues:
No Board level issues at this time.
Apache UIMA's mission: the creation and maintenance of open-source
software related to the analysis of unstructured data, guided by the
UIMA Oasis Standard.
Dates:
31 Aug 2013 last release
12 Mar 2013 last PMC addition
15 Jan 2013 last Committer addition
3 Releases:
2.4.1 release of main UIMA Java SDK, 26 Jul 2013
http://uima.apache.org/news.html#26 Jul 2013
2.4.2 release of main UIMA Java SDK, 09 Aug 2013
http://uima.apache.org/news.html#09 Aug 2013
2.0.0 release of uimaFIT 31 Aug 2013
http://uima.apache.org/news.html#31 Aug 2013
Other Activity:
All three new major recent contributions, uimaFIT, Ruta, and DUCC,
continue to be very active.
An upcoming UIMA workshop and tutorial will be held at the
International Conference of the German Society for Computational
Linguistics and Language Technology (GSCL) 2013 (23-24. Sept.).
This workshop is co-organized by two of the Apache UIMA project's
committers. A keynote at the workshop will be given by Pei Chen
(Apache cTAKES PMC Chairperson) and Guergana Savova.
Community:
We are voting on adding one new committer who has been contributing
several patches to the Ruta project (vote in progress for that now).
Issues:
No Board level issues at this time.
Apache UIMA's mission: the creation and maintenance of open-source software related to the analysis of unstructured data, guided by the UIMA Oasis Standard. Releases: We released a component, Apache UIMA Ruta r 2.0.1, on 29 May 2013 http://uima.apache.org/news.html#29 Other Activity: Following the advice of trademarks@, the trademark issue over the name "Textmarker" was resolved by us dropping the use of that term, and renaming the project UIMA Ruta, and doing a new release under that name, updating the Website, etc. All three new major recent contributions, uimaFIT, Ruta, and DUCC, are very active. Community: Ruta is getting additional contributions from 4 new people in that community (who have sent in ICLAs). Issues: No Board level issues at this time.
Apache UIMA's mission: the creation and maintenance of open-source software related to the analysis of unstructured data, guided by the UIMA Oasis Standard. Releases: We released a component, Apache UIMA TextMarker 2.0.0, on 05 March 2013. http://uima.apache.org/news.html#05 March 2013 Other Activity: The release of TextMarker elicited a trademark-violation letter; this is actively being worked through by trademarks@. Two major contributions, uimaFIT and DUCC, are now official sandbox projects and are very active. The Eclipse Update Site packaging was restructured to follow P2 conventions, and was released as part of the TextMarker release. Community: New Committers: Jim Challenger and Lou Degenaro, were voted in on 15 January 2013. Issues: No Board level issues at this time
Apache UIMA's mission: the creation and maintenance of open-source software related to the analysis of unstructured data, guided by the UIMA Oasis Standard. Releases: Two releases since last report: the 2.4.0 version of the C++ base framework, and the 2.4.0 version of the asynchronous scaleout. Other Activity: Two major contributions, uimaFIT and DUCC, were voted into the sandbox. One has just today filed the Software Grant, and the other should shortly. Bug fixes and improvements are actively being done to both UIMA base SDK and UIMA-AS. The TextMarker project in the sandbox is getting close to its first release. The Eclipse Update Site packaging was restructured to follow P2 conventions. A vote is pending on this. Some add-on components refreshed to update dependencies to newer levels (but not yet released). Community: no changes Issues: No Board level issues at this time
Apache UIMA's mission: the creation and maintenance of open-source software related to the analysis of unstructured data, guided by the UIMA Oasis Standard. Releases: No releases since last report. But both 2.4.0 releases of the C++ and UIMA-AS frameworks are close. Activity: We have had much work in testing various release candidates for the C++ version of the UIMA framework (we're up to Release Candidate 7), with feedback from user testing. Bug fixes and improvements are actively being done to both UIMA base SDK and UIMA-AS. Work continues on the TextMarker project in the sandbox, with most issues now resolved, and documentation started. We are progressing toward bringing in a contribution, UIMAFit; they've done the background work toward getting a software grant signed by the various parties, and have posted a code drop on a Jira for the team to initially give feedback on. Community: no changes Issues: No Board level issues at this time
Apache UIMA's mission: the creation and maintenance of open-source software related to the analysis of unstructured data, guided by the UIMA Oasis Standard. Releases: No releases since last report (except for some build tooling). Activity: Typical mailing list activities for this quarter. Bug fixes and improvements are actively being done to both UIMA base SDK and UIMA-AS. Work continues on the TextMarker project in the sandbox. A new project has been added to the sandbox for UIMA components running on the Bulk Synchronous Parallel (BSP) programming model. We are considering a proposal to bring a contribution, uimaFIT, into the project. We hope to have the next release in the next Quarter, of UIMA-AS (probably based on a next release of UIMA SDK), and of UIMA-C++. Community: No changes Issues: No Board level issues at this time
Board report for Apache UIMA, for March 2012.
Apache UIMA's mission: the creation and maintenance of open-source
software related to the analysis of unstructured data, guided by the
UIMA Oasis Standard.
Releases:
No releases since last report, but had 4 release candidates for the
C++ version of the UIMA framework, and it's pretty close to a release.
UIMA-AS (Asynchronous Scaleout) is being worked on for release.
Activity:
Typical mailing list activities for this quarter. We did notice that
the approximate downloads (as reported here:
http://people.apache.org/~vgritsenko/stats/projects/uima.html#Downloads-N1008F)
seems to have doubled in the last 2 quarters.
The Lucene project has a new adapter that enables using UIMA annotators for
tokenizing the stream, in their trunk (not yet released).
Community:
Peter Klügl joined the PMC.
Issues: No Board level issues at this time
Trademarks/Branding:
This is now complete:
Branding checklist:
Project Website Basics - done
Website Navigation Links - done
Trademark Attributions - done
Logos and Graphics - done
Project Metadata - done
Read PMC Branding Responsibilities - done,
all PMC members have confirmed
Apache UIMA's mission: the creation and maintenance of open-source
software related to the analysis of unstructured data, guided by the
UIMA Oasis Standard.
Releases:
Since last report, UIMA Java SDK 2.4.0 was released
(http://uima.apache.org/news.html#07 December 2011).
This release contained a reworking of the Cas Editor, plus
a year's worth of accumulated bug fixes.
Community:
We added a new committer, Peter Klügl, who is working closely with
another committer developing a new UIMA tool called TextMarker.
Issues: No Board level issues at this time
Trademarks/Branding:
This is now complete:
Branding checklist:
Project Website Basics - done
Website Navigation Links - done
Trademark Attributions - done
Logos and Graphics - done
Project Metadata - done
Read PMC Branding Responsibilities - done,
all PMC members have confirmed
Board report for Apache UIMA, for September 2011.
Apache UIMA's mission: the creation and maintenance of open-source
software related to the analysis of unstructured data, guided by the
UIMA Oasis Standard.
Releases:
Since last report, the Addons package for UIMA was released
(http://uima.apache.org/news.html#29 August 2011). The addons package
contains 2 new annotators:
Solrcas (for storing CAS objects into an Apache Solr instance), and
AlchemyAPIAnnotator (wraps alchemyapi.com services).
Development:
A new contributor, Peter Klügl contributed a UIMA tool to the sandbox,
called TextMarker.
Nicolas Hernandez has set up a French language portal to all things UIMA, and
contributed a French language models for the Hidden Markov Model (HMM)
Tagger annotator, and generally improved that annotator.
The French language models are awaiting getting some additional permissions
before they are put into SVN.
Some attempts to package UIMA Annotators as OSGi bundles led to renewed
investigations toward this, and some progress was made in identifying
approaches and tools, including Maven integration / support.
There continue to be lots of incremental Cas Editor fixes, mostly driven
by user feedback and the development of a new Cas Editor based plugins
at the Apache Incubator OpenNLP project.
UIMA-AS had a few bug fixes, and some new features, including exposing
per-component statistics (for tuning) from UIMA aggregates for each CAS.
Community:
No changes.
Issues: No Board level issues at this time
Trademarks/Branding:
Previous work to add TM started (at some point in time) to fail to display.
With infra's help, traced this to the fact that Apache Web sites
are now being forced to display using UTF-8. We adjusted our build to
accommodate this change.
Branding checklist:
no change from previous report:
Project Website Basics - done
Website Navigation Links - done
Trademark Attributions - done
Logos and Graphics - not done
Project Metadata - done
Read PMC Branding Responsibilities - partially done. Need to get confirmation
that all PMC members have read this.
Apache UIMA's mission: the creation and maintenance of open-source
software related to the analysis of unstructured data, guided by the
UIMA Oasis Standard.
Releases:
Since last report, UIMA-AS Released
(http://uima.apache.org/news.html#22 March 2011).
Development:
UIMA CAS Editor is being improved and extended with inputs from several
active users. A new Eclipse plugin was done that supports easy launching
of UIMA Analysis Engines from within Eclipse.
The set of add-ons is being released soon (on 2nd release candidate as of now).
A user has set up a French language portal to all things UIMA, and
contributed a French language models for the Hidden Markov Model (HMM)
Tagger annotator, and generally improved that annotator.
Another user contributed fixes to URL usage.
Community:
Two users have been busy submitting patches, some of which haven't been
acted upon yet (we have a backlog). One new user who has expressed an
interest in helping out, has also started contributing patches.
Issues: No Board level issues at this time
Trademarks/Branding: all of our web pages have the right footers.
We changed the first occurrence of the use of trademark at the
beginning to be a modifier of a generic class noun, per recent guidance.
Branding checklist:
Project Website Basics - done
Website Navigation Links - done
Trademark Attributions - done
Logos and Graphics - not done
Project Metadata - done
Read PMC Branding Responsibilities - partially done. Need to get confirmation
that all PMC members have read this.
Apache UIMA's mission: the creation and maintenance of open-source software related to the analysis of unstructured data, guided by the UIMA Oasis Standard. PR: Sally K did a Press Release with around UIMA's use in the IBM Watson machine that played against Jeopardy! Releases: Since last report, we've almost released UIMA-AS (we're on RC6). Development: Got Continuous Integration going for UIMAJ and UIMA-AS using Hudson. Got Sonar reporting going for UIMAJ. Jira issues continue to come in and get worked on at a moderate rate, including several in the UIMA-AS (Asynchronous Scaleout) area related to various error recovery scenarios. Work continues on Solrcas, a CAS Consumer which maps UIMA FeatureStructures to Solr fields. AlchemyAPI has been extended with a new annotator which wraps the sentiment analysis web-service. Community: No changes. One user has now released a toolkit built on top of UIMA: DKPro Core 1.1.0 Issues: No Board level issues at this time Trademarks/Branding: A first pass on improving conformance to trademark standards was completed; now all of our web pages have the right footers. Still have a bit more to do (e.g., adding a small TM to our logo images).
Apache UIMA's mission: the creation and maintenance of open-source
software related to the analysis of unstructured data, guided by the
UIMA Oasis Standard.
Releases:
2010-Dec-10 Apache UIMA Java SDK version 2.3.1 released (just now!).
This is the first release of the base UIMA infrastructure,
done as a top level project. Some loose ends remain in getting
our website updated and in sync with this release, and the
announcement will be sent when that is complete.
We will be working on releasing the other 3 major components
(UIMA-AS, UIMA-CPP, and the Add-ons package).
2010-1-26 2.3.0 (Incubator - last release) release of Java SDK, Annotator
add-on package, UIMA-AS (Async scaleout), and UIMA-CPP
(C++ enablement)
Development:
One-time setups needed to build UIMA have been simplified considerably,
as we continue to move closer toward the conventional Maven way
of doing things.
Jira issues continue to come in and get worked on at a moderate rate,
including several in the UIMA-AS (Asynchronous Scaleout) area related
to various error recovery scenarios.
The CAS Editor had many user-requested improvements,
which made it into this release.
Community:
No changes, however, several new projects that incorporate
UIMA have entered the incubator, including OpenNLP and Stanbol.
A patch to enrich documents indexed in Solr with UIMA pipelines has been
provided (https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SOLR-2129),
and a new component to consume UIMA annotations inside a
Solr instance has been proposed for inclusion in the sandbox.
Stanbol is planning to use UIMA inside two of its modules: FISE for semantic
content enrichment (http://wiki.iks-project.eu/index.php/FISE)
and Rick an infrastructure to handle content and
knowledge (http://wiki.iks-project.eu/index.php/RICK)
Issues: No Board level issues at this time
Trademarks/Branding: We've entered a Jira issue for this
but haven't yet done any work on this.
Status report for the Apache UIMA Project
Apache UIMA's mission: the creation and maintenance of open-source
software related to the analysis of unstructured data, guided by the
UIMA Oasis Standard.
Releases:
Maven Build tooling artifacts (e.g., parent POMs, maven helper plugins
and resources) that we will be using for our actual releases have
been released. This was our first use of the Apache Nexus repository
and staging mechanism. We expect a release of UIMA itself, shortly,
using this new tooling.
2010-1-26 2.3.0 (Incubator - last release) release of Java SDK, Annotator
add-on package, UIMA-AS (Async scaleout), and UIMA-CPP
(C++ enablement)
Development:
Some users complained about the difficulty in getting through the
one-time-setups needed to build. Some of this is because we're a bit on
the bleeding edge for maven build tooling; some of the difficulties are
going away as bugs are fixed in the underlying build tooling.
A small annoyance in how UIMA's "ResultSpecification" worked led to
a careful examination of a multitude of "corner cases", and eventually,
to a complete redo of this part of the code.
Jira issues continue to come in and get worked on at a moderate rate,
including several in the UIMA-AS (Asynchronous Scaleout) area related
to various error recovery scenarios, mostly.
A Maven-Central-upload event on Sept. 7 that placed many partial entries
for Eclipse 3.6 artifacts (missing POMs and JARs) ended up breaking
our builds; this was reported to the maven-dev list, and it is being
looked into. We worked around this issue by adding dependencies to
our already version-locked-down Eclipse artifacts, to lock down the
transitively depended-on Eclipse artifacts.
Community: No changes
Issues: No Board level issues at this time
Status report for the Apache UIMA Project
Apache UIMA's mission: the creation and maintenance of open-source
software related to the analysis of unstructured data, guided by the
UIMA Oasis Standard.
Releases:
none yet (as a TLP), we hope to do one in the next month or 2.
2010-1-26 2.3.0 (Incubator - last release) release of Java SDK, Annotator
add-on package, UIMA-AS (Async scaleout), and UIMA-CPP
(C++ enablement)
Development:
Work continues in standardizing our build processes with Maven
conventions. Builds now generally work with the new maven alignment,
and we're starting to attempt releases with this new structure.
We still have a significant number of issues remain in Jira, postponed
from the last release. More progress should get made on these after
our Maven re-alignment work is finished.
Issues regarding large scale use of UIMA-AS continue to be reported
and fixed; these often have to do with corner cases involving very
large scale-outs and error situations.
The project-wide POM used as a parent pom is the first artifact to be
released; it is currently in the staging area, and a vote is underway.
This represents the first time the project has used the maven "release"
plugin and Nexus repository for releasing.
A new user is proposing some feature enhancements to two of the
annotators, and this is being looked at.
The main committer on the CAS Editor tool is proposing some future
directions for this tooling that aims at providing a more componentized
approach for additional capabilities.
We are planning to gradually move documentation updates to make more
use of maven's "site" capabilities.
Community: No changes
Issues: No Board level issues at this time
Apache UIMA's mission: the creation and maintenance of open-source
software related to the analysis of unstructured data, guided by the
UIMA Oasis Standard.
Moving to TLP
- - - - - - -
In the last month, we completed our move to a TLP, and are almost finished
with the updates needed for making use of a major redesign of how we use
Maven to do our builds and releases that uses the standard Apache Maven
Parent POM and the Apache Nexus repository installation.
The website was updated to remove "incubator" things, including some
graphics.
Releases
- - - -
none yet (as a TLP), we hope to do one in the next month or 2.
2010-1-26 2.3.0 (Incubator - last release) release of Java SDK, Annotator
add-on package, UIMA-AS (Async scaleout), and UIMA-CPP
(C++ enablement)
Development
- - - - - -
Lots of work in devising a new way to use Maven that is much more aligned
with the conventional way of doing things.
We still have a significant number of issues remain in Jira, postponed
from the last release. More progress should get made on these after
our Maven re-alignment work is finished.
Some issues regarding large scale use of UIMA-AS were reported and fixed.
Public Relations
- - - - - - - -
Sally Khudairi included a write-up about Apache UIMA in her PR blog, etc.
this past month (Thanks!).
Community
- - - - -
No changes
Issues
- - -
No Board level issues at this time
Apache UIMA's mission: the creation and maintenance of open-source
software related to the analysis of unstructured data, guided by the
UIMA Oasis Standard.
Moving to TLP:
Apache UIMA graduated from the incubator last month; this is its first
report to the Board. The top level project infrastructure was set up on
April 9th, and SVN was moved on April 13. Our web-site has been moved
to the TLP position. Nexus support is now initialized, and we are
working to update our build process to follow more conventional Apache /
Maven ways, including inheriting from the Apache common POM.
We have more work to do to complete the move to a TLP, including
removing the incubation notices and making a first release as a TLP.
Releases:
none yet (as a TLP)
2010-1-26 2.3.0 (Incubator - last release) release of Java SDK, Annotator
add-on package, UIMA-AS (Async scaleout), and UIMA-CPP
(C++ enablement)
Development:
It was relatively quiet during the first part of the month, as we were
awaiting our move from the incubator to become a TLP. Subsequently,
there has been lots of activity to complete TLP migration, and
realign our maven build process to use NEXUS and the standard Apache
parent POM.
The AlchemyAPI Annotator component in the sandbox is making significant
progress.
An ongoing effort to make individual annotators available as OSGi
bundles is underway; we are trying to do things the same way that
Apache Felix-Commons does this. There are some questions remaining
to figure out about this approach though, which are being discussed
on the development list.
A significant number of issues remain in Jira, postponed from the
last release. There has been some progress on these, and
a few new ones have been raised.
Community:
No changes
Issues:
No Board level issues at this time
UIMA is a component framework for the analysis of unstructured content such
as text, audio and video. UIMA entered incubation on October 3, 2006.
Some recent activity:
Version 2.2.1 was released 12/2008, our third incubator release. We were the
first ones to follow the new incubator guidelines for distributing from
w.a.o/dist/incubator/{podling}. As part of this release, we also changed our
download pages to use the Apache mirroring mechanisms. Robert Burrell Donkin
was extremely helpful to us in this process, joining our dev mailing list
and being very responsive - Thanks Robert!.
A member of the team attended ApacheCon 2007 US and presented UIMA in the
"fast track" incubator presentations. Included in that presentation, which
is available on this wiki, are slides describing UIMA use in several
projects, and its adoption by several commercial companies.
A software grant for UIMA-EE, an extension to UIMA that uses JMS and Apache
ActiveMQ to enable additional, more flexible scaleout capabilities, was
submitted to the ASF, and has recently been received. Temis, a commercial
company using UIMA, has expressed interest in joining the development work
around this new capability, and we welcome their participation.
The Cas Editor is now ready for its first release inside the UIMA project,
some short test which roughly followed the test plan were successful. The
release should be out this month.
Items to complete before graduation:
We still need to attract more new committers. We're trying to spark even
more activity in the sandbox to get people to contribute.
Community:
We continue to do outreach to attract new contributors, which may become
committers. The donation of UIMA-EE is facilitating this.
There's a good amount of traffic on both the dev and user list.
UIMA is a component framework for the analysis of unstructured content such as text, audio and video. UIMA entered incubation on October 3, 2006. Some recent activity: * Some new features were added to UIMA enabling the framework to support components running with different Java class paths * A new release (2.2) is being prepared and should be out within a month * The C++ version of the framework is in the final testing stages and should be out within a month Items to complete before graduation: * Attract new committers Community: * Traffic on the uima-user list has started to pick up since our release. We hope to be able to eventually attract some Apache UIMA users to become committers. * uima-dev list has a good amount of traffic, mostly from the original committers, but now starting to get some activity from users around the globe. * Jörn Kottman continues to work on the tool he contributed, with a fair amount of activity after a few quiet weeks. * The Documentation preparation system, based on the Apache Velocity project Docbook system, was considerably upgraded, and now is using Apache FOP 0.93 release for producing printable PDF files. A workshop on UIMA took place at the GLDV 2007 spring conference in Tübingen/Germany, April 11-13, 2007. It was the first workshop of its kind and drew a large and diverse audience from across Europe. Information about this workshop with links to some of the papers was posted on the Apache UIMA website ( http://incubator.apache.org/uima/gldv07.html ). An announcement of funding for work on UIMA related projects and activities for University Faculty was announced on the Apache Community mailing list. This announcement drew both some criticism (of the form: is this an appropriate use of that mailing list), as well as support (yes, it is an appropriate use of that mailing list). End of minutes for the June 27, 2007 board meeting.