Hi,
Apache Commons serves a specific purpose for collaboration amongst
Apache projects. There is already collaboration between projects in
Apache in the RDF space. We have projects using each others releases
(Clerezza uses Jena; Stanbol use Clerezza and specifically the Jena
providers; we all use org/apache/commons/commons-* [+]).
Several of the RDF-using Apache projects (Marmotta, Any23) use a toolkit
from outside Apache. Spanning that is an objective for commons-rdf.
We came here originally. We found that there is a Commons way of doing
things. Collaborating with those external people was not going to work
within the confines of Apache Commons - nothing wrong with that, Commons
isn't aiming to be a sole place of collaboration anywhere.
Collaboration does not happen by setting up more places nor without
establishing common understanding. I do think that claims and
assertions should have objective evidence. The RDF standards are one
external frame of reference we have to understand the claims in this
area. I think that progress can happen if we provide explanation and
evidence alongside position statements regarding the correctness or
otherwise of other groups work. Then maybe we will understand each
other a little better.
Andy
[+] Personal "thank you" to commons-csv which made my life easier recently.
On 19/12/14 21:09, Benedikt Ritter wrote:
Hello,
we (the Apache Commons Project) don't know the RDF standard or any existing
implementations. We just provide a possibility for other projects to share
code. If it is currently not clear how to share RDF library code, or what
should be included, this should be discussed. Creating a new sandbox
component and importing initial code is a good way to do this.
That been said, I consider this discussion as exactly what we've intended
by opening Commons for all committers: sharing code, discussing code,
inter-project collaboration.
Regards,
Benedikt
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