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## Description:
Jena is a framework for developing Semantic Web and Linked Data
applications in Java. It provides implementation of W3C standards for
RDF and SPARQL.
## Issues:
There are no issues requiring board attention at this time.
## Activity:
The project released 3.1.1 on the usual 6 month-ish cycle. This has
been the regular project tick for the last couple of years but the
feeling is now that Jena is putting too much into a release and that a 3
month cycle would be better.
Several major new contributions are in progress.
On the users list, there has been a lot of student-level questions,
particularly of the nature "ask-before-try", leading to some pushback.
After a discussion on dev@, the consensus is that this level of
questions is something that wil happen from time-to-time and unless it
is damaging, the core user community accepts it.
The PMC added Lorenz Buehmann as a committer in recognition of the
effort he provides in patiently answering many questions on users@.
StackOverflow continues to be a second source of user questions.
## Health report:
The level of activity is normal, an a slight lull for December and
post-release is not uncommon.
## PMC changes:
- Currently 12 PMC members.
- No new PMC members added in the last 3 months
- Last PMC addition was Adam Soroka on Mon Jun 06 2016
## Committer base changes:
- Currently 15 committers.
- Lorenz Buehmann was added as a committer on Fri Oct 28 2016
## Releases:
- 3.1.1 was released on Tue Nov 08 2016
## Mailing list activity:
Normal levels.
## JIRA activity:
Normal levels.
