[DRAFT] Apache Jena report (April 2021)

[Andy Seaborne <an...@apache.org>]

## Description:
The mission of Jena is the creation and maintenance of software related 
to Java framework for building Semantic Web applications

## Issues:
There are no issues requiring board attention.

## Membership Data:
Apache Jena was founded 2012-04-18 (9 years ago)
There are currently 18 committers and 14 PMC members in this project.
The Committer-to-PMC ratio is 9:7.

Community changes, past quarter:
- No new PMC members. Last addition was Aaron Coburn on 2019-01-22.
- No new committers. Last addition was Greg Albiston on 2019-07-08.

## Project Activity:

Jena 4.0.0 was released on 2021-04-01.

This release marks moving from requiring a Java8 platform to requiring a
Java11 platform. After discussion in the dev and users communities, the
feeling was that this was a moment for a major version jump.  Because of 
this, there was as much removal of deprecated and old code as time 
permitted.

The release was roughly inline with the "release every 3 or 4 months" 
ideal that the project has.

The release date was by-chance!

This release also contained an updated implementation of "RDF-star" - an
emerging new feature for RDF that is gaining traction.  This release 
passes all the syntax and evaluation test suites.

## Community Health:

The community, as seen on the user list and via contributors remains 
healthy. The thread on whether to update to Java11 was the busiest user 
list thread.

Re: [DRAFT] Apache Jena report (April 2021)

["A. Soroka" <so...@gmail.com>]

+1, thanks indeed.

Adam

On Fri, Apr 9, 2021, 6:38 PM Aaron Coburn <ac...@apache.org> wrote:

> +1
>
> Thanks for preparing the report
>
> On Wed, 7 Apr 2021 at 10:25, Andy Seaborne <an...@apache.org> wrote:
>
> > ## Description:
> > The mission of Jena is the creation and maintenance of software related
> > to Java framework for building Semantic Web applications
> >
> > ## Issues:
> > There are no issues requiring board attention.
> >
> > ## Membership Data:
> > Apache Jena was founded 2012-04-18 (9 years ago)
> > There are currently 18 committers and 14 PMC members in this project.
> > The Committer-to-PMC ratio is 9:7.
> >
> > Community changes, past quarter:
> > - No new PMC members. Last addition was Aaron Coburn on 2019-01-22.
> > - No new committers. Last addition was Greg Albiston on 2019-07-08.
> >
> > ## Project Activity:
> >
> > Jena 4.0.0 was released on 2021-04-01.
> >
> > This release marks moving from requiring a Java8 platform to requiring a
> > Java11 platform. After discussion in the dev and users communities, the
> > feeling was that this was a moment for a major version jump.  Because of
> > this, there was as much removal of deprecated and old code as time
> > permitted.
> >
> > The release was roughly inline with the "release every 3 or 4 months"
> > ideal that the project has.
> >
> > The release date was by-chance!
> >
> > This release also contained an updated implementation of "RDF-star" - an
> > emerging new feature for RDF that is gaining traction.  This release
> > passes all the syntax and evaluation test suites.
> >
> > ## Community Health:
> >
> > The community, as seen on the user list and via contributors remains
> > healthy. The thread on whether to update to Java11 was the busiest user
> > list thread.
> >
>

Re: [DRAFT] Apache Jena report (April 2021)

[Aaron Coburn <ac...@apache.org>]

+1

Thanks for preparing the report

On Wed, 7 Apr 2021 at 10:25, Andy Seaborne <an...@apache.org> wrote:

> ## Description:
> The mission of Jena is the creation and maintenance of software related
> to Java framework for building Semantic Web applications
>
> ## Issues:
> There are no issues requiring board attention.
>
> ## Membership Data:
> Apache Jena was founded 2012-04-18 (9 years ago)
> There are currently 18 committers and 14 PMC members in this project.
> The Committer-to-PMC ratio is 9:7.
>
> Community changes, past quarter:
> - No new PMC members. Last addition was Aaron Coburn on 2019-01-22.
> - No new committers. Last addition was Greg Albiston on 2019-07-08.
>
> ## Project Activity:
>
> Jena 4.0.0 was released on 2021-04-01.
>
> This release marks moving from requiring a Java8 platform to requiring a
> Java11 platform. After discussion in the dev and users communities, the
> feeling was that this was a moment for a major version jump.  Because of
> this, there was as much removal of deprecated and old code as time
> permitted.
>
> The release was roughly inline with the "release every 3 or 4 months"
> ideal that the project has.
>
> The release date was by-chance!
>
> This release also contained an updated implementation of "RDF-star" - an
> emerging new feature for RDF that is gaining traction.  This release
> passes all the syntax and evaluation test suites.
>
> ## Community Health:
>
> The community, as seen on the user list and via contributors remains
> healthy. The thread on whether to update to Java11 was the busiest user
> list thread.
>