+1 Thanks for preparing the report
On Wed, 7 Apr 2021 at 10:25, Andy Seaborne <[email protected]> wrote: > ## Description: > The mission of Jena is the creation and maintenance of software related > to Java framework for building Semantic Web applications > > ## Issues: > There are no issues requiring board attention. > > ## Membership Data: > Apache Jena was founded 2012-04-18 (9 years ago) > There are currently 18 committers and 14 PMC members in this project. > The Committer-to-PMC ratio is 9:7. > > Community changes, past quarter: > - No new PMC members. Last addition was Aaron Coburn on 2019-01-22. > - No new committers. Last addition was Greg Albiston on 2019-07-08. > > ## Project Activity: > > Jena 4.0.0 was released on 2021-04-01. > > This release marks moving from requiring a Java8 platform to requiring a > Java11 platform. After discussion in the dev and users communities, the > feeling was that this was a moment for a major version jump. Because of > this, there was as much removal of deprecated and old code as time > permitted. > > The release was roughly inline with the "release every 3 or 4 months" > ideal that the project has. > > The release date was by-chance! > > This release also contained an updated implementation of "RDF-star" - an > emerging new feature for RDF that is gaining traction. This release > passes all the syntax and evaluation test suites. > > ## Community Health: > > The community, as seen on the user list and via contributors remains > healthy. The thread on whether to update to Java11 was the busiest user > list thread. >
