DRAFT REPORT MAY 2014

[Hasan Hasan <ha...@trialox.org>]

Dear all

Thanks again to all of you for the inputs.
Please find below the draft report for May 2014.
I'll send this report this evening or tomorrow morning to the board
(one day later than deadline but still acceptable as the board meeting is
more than 3 days ahead).
Thus, requests for changes please until this evening. Thanks.

Kind regards
Hasan

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DESCRIPTION
Apache Clerezza is an OSGi-based modular application and a set of
components
(bundles) for building RESTFul Semantic Web applications and services.

ISSUES FOR THE BOARD
There are no issues requiring board attention at this time.

RELEASE
Latest release (partial-release-20130710) was created on 10.07.2013
Releases as karaf features are planned and being worked on.

ACTIVITY
Various improvements and bug fixes in source codes including:

- Triple Collection Provider:
  - Exposing QueryableTcProvider as an additional service besides
    (Weighted)TcProvider
- Upgraded jena dependencies:
    jena-core 2.11.0 --> 2.11.1
    jena-arq 2.11.0 --> 2.11.1
    jena-iri 1.0.0 --> 1.0.1
    jena-tdb 1.0.0 --> 1.0.1
- Migration to git:
  - Adjusted SCM section in parent/pom.xml to reflect the switch from svn
    to git
- Adjusted README.txt to no longer mention incubator
- Performance improvement a.o. by enabling garbage collector to gain
  memories back from unreferenced BNodes
- Usability improvement (GUI for managing graphs)
- Stability improvement (no longer depending on bundle startup order)
- Improvement in the support for Virtuoso Storage Provider:
  - Various bug fixes, improved performance and added a packed launcher
  (while bundle lists in provisioning are still to come).

COMMUNITY
Latest change was addition of a new committer and PMC member on 16.08.2013

INFRASTRUCTURE
TO BE ADDED IF CAN BE DONE THIS EVENING
- Website update
- Published DOAP file