+1 indeed, thanks Andy!

Adam

On Thu, Sep 30, 2021, 5:44 PM Bruno P. Kinoshita
<brunodepau...@yahoo.com.br.invalid> wrote:

>  +1
> Thanks!
>
>     On Friday, 1 October 2021, 10:34:51 am NZDT, Andy Seaborne <
> a...@apache.org> 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 version 4.2.0 was released 2021-09-12. It fixed CVE-2021-39239,
> which was discovered by the team, and affects all version 4.1.0 and
> earlier.
>
> The release was not just about a CVE fix. The release included a new
> component, a data validation engine for the ShEx language to go
> alongside the SHACL engine; and also support for reading JSON-LD 1.1
> using an external 3rd party library. JSON-LD 1.1 is used by some IOT
> device and service descriptions.
>
> During the release checking, a problem was discovered in the OSGi bundle
> related to the new dependencies for JSON-LD 1.1 handling. The project
> dropped the OSGi convenience binaries, and a discussion has started
> about retiring them. The development community no longer has the skills,
> nor interest, necessary to maintain their production. Contact with known
> downstream open source projects, and a message to users@ has not
> produced any concern.
>
> Jena has a process for retiring modules - delete in git, record the last
> git commit with the code in case some interest emerges and will maintain
> the module.
>
> ## Community Health:
> Activity seems normal. Some of the figures are slightly skewed because
> one PR had 48 commits which is unusual for Jena.
>
> The dev@ list is also the destination of JIRA email and is otherwise
> quite quiet. The speed of evolution of the project is down to developer
> time.
>
> The users@ is active and the main support channel.
>

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