Thanks for the update Lewis. Gary
On Thu, Nov 5, 2015 at 6:50 PM, Lewis John Mcgibbney < [email protected]> 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. > 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 > -- E-Mail: [email protected] | [email protected] Java Persistence with Hibernate, Second Edition <http://www.manning.com/bauer3/> JUnit in Action, Second Edition <http://www.manning.com/tahchiev/> Spring Batch in Action <http://www.manning.com/templier/> Blog: http://garygregory.wordpress.com Home: http://garygregory.com/ Tweet! http://twitter.com/GaryGregory
