+1 --- A. Soroka The University of Virginia Library
> On Jan 1, 2017, at 12:18 PM, Andy Seaborne <[email protected]> wrote: > > Draft: > --------------------------------------------- > > ## 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. >
