[Question]: Apache cTAKES is now on GitHub !

[Johnsd11]

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I am pleased to announce that the cTAKES source code is now on GitHub at https://github.com/apache/ctakes

[https://opengraph.githubassets.com/fcab5fb05ec83aeb556ec2e939a856d20cfb4d9684aa13253c82cc7370f1c9cd/apache/ctakes]https://github.com/apache/ctakes

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[Johnsd11]

Thank you Sean - looks like you & others put in a lot of work to make this
transition. I'm looking forward to the "toys" you mentioned.
Will the repository protocol be the same as it was during the SVN days with
designated contributors?

Although I didn't receive any feedback, I might check in some improvements
I made to the Negex module and to the ZoneAnnotator. These have been in
production for a year now, so I'm pretty sure they're stable.

[Johnsd11]

Privileges for the GitHub repository are the same as they were for the old SVN repository. Anybody who is an Apache cTAKES Committer then should have write permission for the repository.

You do need to have a GitHub account and connect it to your Apache account.

There are a couple of ways to handle it and I did this myself quite a while ago, but I think that the most direct method is:

1. Visit the Apache Account Utility at https://id.apache.org//

2. Log in with your Apache username and Apache password.

3. Halfway down the page, enter your GitHub Username in the first box labeled "Your GitHub Username".

4. Save Changes.

I think that it takes several hours for the system to establish the connection, at which point you might get some kind of notification email.

Regarding the NegEx, ZoneAnnotator and anything else that you might have locally, please do check it in! For some reason I thought that the Negex change was done a long time ago, but I wasn't really paying close attention. Thanks again for the improvements!

[Johnsd11]

I have poked around a tiny bit on other Apache GitHub repositories. It looks like many (e.g. spark, Solr) also do not have enabled 'issues' sections, while others do. In addition, most do not have a GitHub Wiki, while at least one (echarts) does.

As I mentioned, we still have Jira for issues, we also still have our wiki on Confluence.

I don't know if we can move both to GitHub, but if it is possible ... what does everybody think? That is to ask, "Would the issues and wiki both being GitHub-based be a benefit?"

Obviously any change is contingent upon the Apache Infra team being able to relocate the cTAKES online resources.