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Posted to dev@jena.apache.org by Andy Seaborne <an...@apache.org> on 2020/07/05 12:01:58 UTC

[DRAFT] Apache Jena report (July 2020)

## 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 (8 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 3.15.0 was released on 2020-05-19. This release has introduced a 
problem with one of the server binaries, and new users have run into
problems as witnessed by StackOverflow and users@ messages. The project
is starting a new release rather than wait for usual 3-4 months between 
releases.

## Community Health:

Overall community health is good with normal levels of email on users@, 
JIRA tickets, GitHub PRs and StackOverflow questions.

Of note, is a report from a user that they had loaded 12billion triples 
(a WikiData dataset) into a Jena TDB database. This is the largest 
publicly reported load for Jena. Query performance was reported to be 
satisfactory.