On 06/11/15 02:50, Lewis John Mcgibbney wrote:
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.
Those are stakeholders and they for the "supply" side of the interfaces.
There is another category of people, which is the application writers,
who form the "demand" side. (application being very broad - any
processing code.)
Both need to happen and it's not always quick for that to emerge.
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?
FYI:
https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/JENA-1015
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.
Great thoughts.
Lewis
Andy
