Hi, Andy: I am just starting to develop a large model processing tool using SDB for the initial load of model, so please do not make it go away. However, I know very little so I don't know how to contribute. Maybe some testing efforts to start with?
Thanks - Charles On Tue, May 21, 2013 at 11:47 AM, Andy Seaborne <[email protected]> wrote: > SDB is getting some user attention but not much developer attention. I > was hoping that there would be a contribution to go with JENA-447 but > nothing has come in. I don't have the bandwidth to even answer questions > about it properly, partly because I don't use it. I guess others are in a > similar position. > > I do think we should be clear as to it's status. > > In the future, I see these options: > > 1/ Add jena-sdb to the main distribution. > (If it becomes a block on a release, remove it.) > > 2/ As is - release "sometimes". > > 3/ Dormant SDB. > This is the last release unless some activity arises to maintain it. > Keep the source around but move out of trunk. > Can be built from source. > > 4/ Legacy SDB. > More definite statement than (3) that it is dropped. > Keep the source around. > > For 3 and 4, where there are no plans to release again if nothing changes, > the snapshot builds should be stopped. Users can build from source if they > want to but the current snapshot should not become a > distribution-under-the-radar which I feel it becomes if there are no plans > to make it a formal release. > > Thoughts? > > I'm tending towards doing this one last release then (3). > > Andy >
