Adding task management

[LongquanJiang]

Thank you for your contribution to NLP text annotation. It is a wonderful tool. I am using it to complete my annotation task.

Do you have a plan to add a module for task management to add, delete, modify, view and upload tasks files from a local machine, as well as to be assigned to annotators? Because I think this module would be a more popular functionality.

Thanks again for your contribution.

[johanneskiesel]

Thank you a lot for the kind words!

Indeed I can see how such a module would make it easier to maintain long-running tasks. Currently you have to edit the config files and reload the server, which requires access to the machine the server is running on as well as some knowledge on how WAT works.

That said, there are currently no plans to develop such a module from my side. Maybe @chlor has plans in this regard?

Plainly spoken, WAT is developed on a per-need-basis, with the people that need certain functionality doing the coding. That is how we expanded the team in the past already. If you (or someone else) want to contribute such functionality, we can talk about finding a way that all profit from your work. But I don't want to overwhelm you with this. I just wanted to state that we are very open for improvements.

[LongquanJiang]

Thanks for your reply. I am willing to make a meaningful contribution to this project.

[chlor]

Am 23.04.2020 um 12:32 schrieb Longquan Jiang:

Thanks for your reply. I am willing to make a meaningful contribution to this project.

Hi, sorry for my late answer. I run a lot of annotation tasks with a group of annotatators and Wat-SL. For different tasks I used different setups and different port of our server infrastructure. Often, we changed the configuration of the (new) annotation tasks and so, for me, it was not necessary and I do not plan more evolutions of Wat-SL in this direction. Best regards, Christina Lohr

[johanneskiesel]

Thank you, @longquanj, for this offer! I'm currently short on time, but should find more time to look at everything on Monday.

The new features are certainly something to be controlled over the admin page. It could be just a form on the admin page. How do you imagine it?

I don't know how much time you already spent with the code. Maybe you even already see a clear path of how you would add the features? Or do you need some pointers for how to work with the code?

For the organization, you might want to do a fork and then we merge it back in? (but also make sure to give yourself proper credits in the Readme!)

In all cases I'm open for suggestions. I think it is great that you want to contribute, and I would like to make this painless for you.