+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.
>

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