Robert Sachunsky

> To showcase this, I started migrating ocrd_tesserocr to the new core API under [OCR-D/ocrd_tesserocr#216](https://github.com/OCR-D/ocrd_tesserocr/pull/216) – it's still using the old `process` functions ATM, I'll migrate these in the next...

> 1. Inside `get_processor` why is `setup()` not called in case the `instance_caching` flag is set? When the flag is set and there is no cached processor yet, the `setup()`...

> There is of course lots of dependent stuff we need to discuss (error handling, parallelization, dynamic workflows) but seeing as this is backwards-compatible, I see no reason not to...

> Since the cardinality is defined as a constant, I see no reason not to put that in the `ocrd-tool.json`. Not necessarily a constant (more of a range, usually a...

Partial CI failure seems to be the Docker Compose race again: ``` Container ocrd_network_mongo_db Error Container ocrd_network_rabbit_mq Healthy dependency failed to start: container ocrd_network_mongo_db exited (48) make: *** [Makefile:293: network-integration-test-cicd]...

We now have … - [v3 port of ocrd_tesserocr#216](https://github.com/OCR-D/ocrd_tesserocr/pull/216) - [v3 port of ocrd_kraken#44](https://github.com/OCR-D/ocrd_kraken/pull/44) - [v3 port of ocrd_cis#5](https://github.com/bertsky/ocrd_cis/pull/5) … more or less succeeding against `3.0.0a1`, which tells us that...

@kba please release as a2 or b1 (no opinion here)

Unfortunately, in the current state, I reintroduced the problem that if a processor has mandatory parameters without defaults, you cannot instantiate it _without_ those. So not only does `--help` and...

> Unfortunately, in the current state, I reintroduced the problem that if a processor has mandatory parameters without defaults, you cannot instantiate it _without_ those. So not only does `--help`...

@kba feel free to make next pre-release! (Obviously, we'll have to pull from master and resolve changelog+version before we finally merge 3.0.)