[CWB] cwb newbie

[Stefan Evert]

Dear Kai,

welcome to the CWB development team and this mailing list!  Thanks  
for your interest and your offer to contribute to further  
development!  I'm sure there are lots of things you can do even  
without knowing much about the CWB architecture, e.g. helping to  
build up a test suite, writing and clarifying manpages, fleshing out  
the user/admin manuals, etc.  If you have some experience with Unix- 
based software development: it would be great if someone could port  
the CWB configuration and build process to GNU autoconf (at the  
moment it's a big mess of Makefiles and hand-written includes).

There's a big bottleneck at the moment - myself, I'm afraid - until I  
find the time to do a basic cleanup of the CWB source code and upload  
it to sourceforge.  My reason for procrastinating is that it doesn't  
make much sense for people to start hacking on the code while I'm  
still rearranging things, but it's holding up development for too  
long now.

If you're all happy with that, I'll put up a tarball of the CWB  
sources on sourceforge within the next days, so you can have a look  
at it and perhaps start making small contributions (such as filling  
in missing manpages or adding the autoconf build process).  I suggest  
that all changes go through me, though, until we've reached a  
reasonably complete and clean state that we can release as version  
3.0.  I'll upload this state to the sourceforge SVN then and we can  
continue development there. (As a matter of fact, I'll upload as soon  
as we've finished major changes to the directory structure, then you  
can make smaller edits directly in the SVN.)

Best wishes to everybody & I'll get back to you soon with the source  
code,
Stefan


On 19 Sep 2006, at 14:37, Kai Zimmer wrote:

> Hi everybody,
>
> i'm new to the list and i'd like to contribute to the development  
> of cwb. Maybe there are smaller programming jobs, rpm packaging,  
> testing or things like that i could do?  I haven't used cwb before  
> (just via web-interface) so - can where can i get the sources and  
> maybe helpful instructions on the usage?

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Stefan Evert
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Institute of Cognitive Science, University of Osnabrück
49069 Osnabrück, Germany

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