[logon] preparing for another LOGON snapshot: Barcelona

[Stephan Oepen]

dear all,

as mentioned on the DELPH-IN `developers' list today, i would suggest
that we jointly produce another tagged LOGON snapshot, i.e. a release
of the complete tree than can serve as a stable point of reference for
users.  the last such snapshot (HandOn) is getting out of date, and i
would like to aim for at least one release each year, synchronized to
the annual summit.

i would want to complete this snapshot (codenamed Barcelona) on 15-jul,
and there needs to be a non-trivial amount of testing before that date.
hence i would suggest 5-jul as the cut-off date, i.e. anything you want
to see included in this release should be committed to the SVN `trunk'
by that date.

besides picking up recent Allegro CL patches and LKB and [incr tsdb()]
code updates, my main goal for this release would be to move to a newer
version of the ERG as the default (i.e. `lingo/erg/', the grammar that
is used by standard MT, parsing, and generation configurations).  this
will require support from dan (ERG), eric and francis (JaEn and EnJa),
and berthold (DeEn and maybe EnDe).  will each team have some time for
testing MT performance and making adjustments as needed?

dan was planning to freeze ERG changes in the next few weeks, so maybe
we can agree on a target date for a new ERG version that is quite close
to the expected 0907 release (sans updated treebanks, for example), say
around 7-jun?  dan, is that a possible target date?

the Barcelona release should of course also include up-to-date versions
of JaCY and GG (and preferably also other grammars that are part of the
LOGON tree, e.g. the SRG and Cheetah).  if possible, developers should
schedule their efforts for late june and july around this release goal,
such that the versions that end up in the snapshot are somewhat tested,
or at least do not contain incomplete, untested major revisions :-).

besides aiming to have code and grammars up-to-date, what other changes 
would people like to see in the next LOGON release?

                                                      all best  -  oe

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