[logon] preparing for another LOGON snapshot: Barcelona

[Stephan Oepen]

dear all, here is a long overdue update on our LOGON Barcelona release.

seeing that i had failed to completely freeze this release prior to the
barcelona meeting and in the light of various conversations we had, the
final release date was moved to monday, 17-aug.

this past week, dan was visiting oslo, and we used the opportunity for
a final round of fine-tuning the WeScience corpus and pre-processing.
there will be no more changes to the ERG in this release, but dan will
continue to update and extend treebanks until 15-aug.  we decided that
it was feasible to include the complete, non-test portion of WeScience
in this release, i.e. segments WS01 through WS13.  and it looks as if
we might reach a `survival rate' (healthy, gold-standard trees) for up
to 80% of all WeScience inputs.

in more technical news, i decided to get all current patches for Lisp,
in the hope of seeing some of the font issues (CLIM) and problems with
file locking on NFSv4 and GPFS disappear.  as of today, i have checked
in these updates and re-built the LOGON run-time binaries.  the patches
to the base Lisp were relatively substantial, including several to CLIM
and interface code to emacs (ELI).  could i suggest that all developers
take part in testing these changes over the next two weeks, i.e. please
`make update' your LOGON tree immediately and try out your various use
patterns carefully (both interactively and in batch mode).

i have yet to check with montse, but if possible we will try to include
an up-to-date FreeLing and current SRG in this release.  i will further
see whether i can work with woodley to produce new `pangolui' binaries.

other than these changes, i have no plans for additional updates.  if,
seeing the latest release schedule, you would like to commit additional
revisions, could you please let me know about such plans?

                                                   best wishes  -  oe

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