Hi Folks, Andy has changed the thread title for the technical aspect of Paul's thread. I would like to comment that over in Any23 we have a very small and quiet community. We had a GSoC project this year with the student doing pretty well and our codebase growing in functionality. One thing I've learned (from Andy) is that just because things are quiet does not mean that no-one cares. One thing we are probably not doing over here at CommonsRDF is to remind ourselves of the proposed target audience. From the Incubator Proposal
"...The goal is to provide a compact API that could be implemented by the upcoming versions of the main Java toolkits (Apache Jena 3.0 and OpenRDF Sesame 4.0) as well as for other libraries (OWLAPI) and other JVM languages (Banana RDF and so on). " These guys are our stakeholders. These are the ones we need to be evangelizing to. Therefore, it might be worthwhile logging issues in Jira for each of the above, doing the community outrwach and getting some feedback on the Commons RDF motivation. Has this exercise taken place? One other thing, there was a small group of 5 core committers to begin with. As of right now, the number of subscribers to this list is 22. We've actually done pretty well in attracting people to join the community ML. Some food for thought. Lewis On Thu, Nov 5, 2015 at 10:05 AM, < [email protected]> wrote: > > I've seen very little traffic for the last few months, while this is not > necessarily an issue in the short term it seems to reflect a general long > term trend of lack of activity after the initial flurry that occurred when > the podling was first established and put together the initial release. > I've seen a bit of discussion around adoption in other communities but > nothing that appears to have yet gone anywhere. > > I am concerned that there is perhaps no longer a viable community around > this podling especially given the withdrawal of several folks and strong > objections to technical direction from others. The technical direction is > not really a problem since the ASF encourages, allows and promotes > competing > technological approaches and the Foundation itself stays out of the > technical direction of projects. However if there is no longer a viable > community here then at some point you have to start thinking about other > options e.g. retirement or leaving the Incubator for another venue I.e. > returning to GitHub > > Do folks still think that it is possible to build something that will > actually be adopted by the other involved communities? Do people still > think this project has/can build the necessary momentum to move forwards > towards graduation in the long term? > > Rob
