Notification: First Apache release of Jena

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

This message is advanced notification of the upcoming Jena 2.7.0 
release.  This will cover Jena 2.7.0, ARQ 2.9.0 and the IRI library 0.9.0

This is the first release from Apache.

If you are in an organisation that uses Jena with your products, this is 
the time to test that the new releases work for you.



New maven artifacts will be named under group id org.apache.jena. 
Package names are not changing.

org.apache.jena:jena-core
org.apache.jena:jena-arq
org.apache.jena:jena-iri

Aside from the different artifact names, and where to download from, 
this should be aa drop-in replacement.


There are testing versions of the maven repository and the download area 
now available:

** Proposed maven repository:
http://people.apache.org/~andy/jena-R1-repo/

** Jena 2.7.0 download is:
http://people.apache.org/~andy/jena-R1-repo/org/apache/jena/apache-jena/2.7.0-incubating/apache-jena-2.7.0-incubating.zip

Please test these out in advance of the release.  We will be starting 
the formal release process as soon as the testing of these prototype 
items is completed.

	Andy


Apache development setup:

The development versions are available as SNAPSHOTs: (different version 
numbers, same code)

https://repository.apache.org/content/repositories/snapshots/org/apache/jena/

and you can see the state of the Jenkins continuous integration server:

https://builds.apache.org/view/G-L/view/Jena/

The development code is at:

https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/incubator/jena/