>From my past reading of Board Meeting minutes different projects report with differing levels of detail.
I don't think it is a bad thing to include a chunk of text about an issue that is somewhat contentious in the community since it seems we as developers would like to deprecate SDB long term and have no-one actively maintaining it yet many in the community are using it. Rob On 7/9/13 7:26 AM, "Andy Seaborne" <[email protected]> wrote: >Good point though I've just checked and there are 50-odd project reports >this month. It hadn't clicked it was that many; looks like less about >SDB would have been better. > > Andy > >On 08/07/13 21:19, Rob Vesse wrote: >> Is it worth mentioning the new jena-text module has been integrated into >> the code base as a replacement for the old LARQ module and has been well >> received by the community in SNAPSHOT testing. I know you were >> essentially the main author but since it was developed internally at >> Epimorphics and then contributed to Jena this may be worth mentioning. >> >> >> Otherwise looks good, can't think of anything else obviously missing. >> >> Rob >> >> On 7/7/13 5:46 AM, "Andy Seaborne" <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> Draft for this quarters board report. >>> >>> Andy >>> >>> ------------- >>> == Project Description >>> >>> Apache Jena is a Java framework for building Semantic Web and Linked >>> Data applications based on W3C and community standards. >>> >>> == Issues >>> There are no issues to raise with the board. >>> >>> == Releases >>> Jena 2.10.1 released on 2013-05-15 >>> Jena SDB 1.3.6 released on 2013-05-30 >>> >>> == PMC >>> Committer/PMC last added: Jan 2013 >>> >>> == Activity >>> >>> dev@ list: 150-200 messages a month >>> users@ list: 200-300 messages a month >>> >>> 1/ Jena has a GSoC project just getting under way, hoping to add >>>spatial >>> query to the RDF query language, SPARQL. >>> >>> 2/ There has been a contribution of website redesign which is gathering >>> a lot of support. >>> >>> 3/ The developer community is dealing with one module, SDB (RDF query >>> over SQL databases), that has up to now been released sporadically and >>> separately. >>> >>> The last release managed to get the necessary 3 +1's but the module >>> receives very little in the way of contributions from the whole >>> community. The committers (who don't use it) have kept it working as >>> the main codebase changes. >>> >>> The current plan is to include in the main release on a maintenance >>> basis on the understanding that any architectural changes to the main >>> system may cause it to be dropped unless active contributors emerge. >> >
