Re: [DISCUSS] The Future of Apache Marmotta - Move to Attic?

[Alain Bouju <al...@univ-lr.fr>]

Hi everyone,

I take the spatial branch (MARMOTTA-584 + small change) and I add change from marmotta 3.4.0 (to have a version 3.4.0 + spatial branch).
I could make a patch (with marmotta 3.4.0 or spatial branch has you want).

Best Alain

On 17/04/2020 16:26, Jakob Frank wrote:
> Hi Alain, Andrea,
>
> from my perspective, the main goal would be to get some fresh views and
> ideas on the project, but also some "code work".
> The current codebase is pretty much outdated regarding dependencies and
> such and would very much benefit from some updates here. But we already
> have a long going upgrade branch for our main dependency OpenRDF Sesame to
> be updated to RDF4J (MARMOTTA-659). But also documentation, etc... hasn't
> been touched for quite some time.
>
> You can see, Marmotta has been dormant for a long time - any help would be
> appreciated!
>
> Best,
> Jakob
>
>
> On Tue, 14 Apr 2020 at 16:01, Andrea Gazzarini <ag...@apache.org>
> wrote:
>
>> Hi guys,
>> I would be happy to help
>>
>> Andrea
>>
>> On Tue, 14 Apr 2020 at 15:20, Alain Bouju <al...@univ-lr.fr> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi everyone,
>>>
>>> I'll could be volunteer to help for the project.
>>>
>>> Best,
>>>
>>> Alain
>>>
>>> On 14/04/2020 14:30, Jakob Frank wrote:
>>>> Hi everyone,
>>>>
>>>> Apache Marmotta, an open Platform for Linked Data. This is how the
>>>> project started in December 2012 when it entered the Apache Incubator.
>>>> It was a state-of-the-art (and partially beyond) software platform.
>>>> A SQL-based triple store with a performant SPARQL-Implementation. You
>>>> could run SPARQL-Queries on a full DBpedia import!
>>>> With ld-path and ld-cache we offered libraries that allow to consume
>>>> linked data in real-world usecases.
>>>> And last but not least, Apache Marmotta became (and is) a reference
>>>> implementation of the Linked Data Platform (W3C-Rec.) [2]
>>>>
>>>> In the last years, Apache Marmotta has been dormant. The latest release
>>>> was in June 2018. The last commit also. Also the mailing-lists have
>> been
>>>> silent for several months now.
>>>> All these are signals that it's time to consider moving the project to
>>>> the Attic [2].
>>>>
>>>> If volunteers are willing to step up and continue the project, now is
>>>> the (last) chance to do so. I'd be happy to help transitioning the
>>>> project management to new heads!
>>>> Otherwise I'll prepare to move the project to the Attic in with the May
>>>> board report.
>>>>
>>>> Best,
>>>> Jakob
>>>>
>>>> [1]
>>>> <
>> https://dvcs.w3.org/hg/ldpwg/raw-file/default/tests/reports/ldp.html#subj_8
>>>> [2] <https://attic.apache.org/>
>