Draft: Jena report , Jan 2013

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

(there isn't anywhere to put the report just a the moment although the 
deadline is Jan 9)

Anything else to add?

	Andy

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??? : Status report for the Apache Jena Project

Apache Jena is a Java framework for building Semantic Web applications
based on W3C and community standards.

There are no issues to raise with the board.

Releases:

* After community testing on a variety of SQL databases setups, Jena SDB 
1.3.5 was release in 10/Oct.  This completes the release of all storage 
components after incubator.

* A full release of Jena 2.7.4 and Jena Fuseki 0.2.5 was made on  24/Oct.


Community and activity:

users@ had 150-300 messages a month, and dev@ had 180-500 messages a month.

The next released planned is Jena 2.10 - a jump in version number to 
sync internal versions, and to move a simplified system, removing little 
and unused features for better maintainability and extension.

Standards:

Apache Jena was referenced on the implementation reports for various 
SPARQL specifications as they progressed to recommendation status.