Re: [DRAFT] Apache Jena - January 2019

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

On 30/12/2018 22:22, Bruno P. Kinoshita wrote:
> +1
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> Not sure if worth, but maybe we can state that users were informed about the modules being retired (I remember seeing an e-mail some time ago in the jena-users?).

That would be:

https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/edd5876b070f24091e19b5c1dd274ef46c74a0f920d419a29a59f66b@%3Cusers.jena.apache.org%3E

> 
> Cheers
> Bruno
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> ________________________________
> From: Andy Seaborne <an...@apache.org>
> To: "dev@jena.apache.org" <de...@jena.apache.org>
> Sent: Monday, 31 December 2018 4:51 AM
> Subject: [DRAFT] Apache Jena - January 2019
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> 
> Draft board report for the January board meeting:
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> ## Description:
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> Jena is a framework for developing Semantic Web and Linked Data
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> applications in Java. It provides implementation of W3C standards for
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> RDF and SPARQL.
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> 
> ## Issues:
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> There are no issues requiring board attention at this time.
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> ## Activity:
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> The project is currently voting on the 3.10.0 in line with the 3-4 month
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> cycle as and when volunteer time is available.
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> The git repo was migrated seamlessly to gitbox - excellent process by INFRA.
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> The project has received a significant contribution of a GeoSPARQL
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> ending and the team is migrating from the custom spatial query solution
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> to the Open Geospatial Consortium standards based one.
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> The project is also retiring some unused modules that do not receive
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> attention and have had very little in the way of user questions over the
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> last few years.
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> ## Health report:
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> The project is at normal levels of activity, with JIRA and git pull
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> requests getting being responded to, and the users list remains active.
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> There are also many questions asked and answered on stackoverflow where
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> answers come from a wider community.
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> 
> ## PMC changes:
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>    - Currently 13 PMC members.
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>    - No new PMC members added in the last 3 months
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>    - Last PMC addition was Chris Tomlinson on Sun Apr 29 2018
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> ## Committer base changes:
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>    - Currently 17 committers.
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>    - No new committers added in the last 3 months
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>    - Last committer addition was Aaron Coburn at Mon Jun 18 2018
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> ## Releases:
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>    - Last release was Jena 3.9.0 on Fri Sep 28 2018
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> ## JIRA activity:
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>    - 44 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months
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>    - 58 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months
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