Draft board report
## Description:
The mission of Jena is the creation and maintenance of software related
to Java framework for building Semantic Web applications
## Project Status:
Current project status: Ongoing
Issues for the board: none
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"project status" is a new required item. The options are:
* New: a top-level project that's just getting started
* Ongoing: With high, moderate or low activity, which you may quantify
if appropriate
* Dormant: Not much happening on the code, but at least 3 PMC members
ready to engage if needed
* At risk: Not enough active PMC members, or a significant number of
contributors left the project, etc.
* Considering moving to the Attic: a project that's about to move to
the Attic, or discussing that
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## Membership Data:
Apache Jena was founded 2012-04-18 (11 years ago)
There are currently 18 committers and 13 PMC members in this project.
The Committer-to-PMC ratio is roughly 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:
The project released version 4.8.0 on April 23, 2023
and 4.9.0 on July 8, 2023.
Both releases included addressing security issues.
The project is discussing version 5.0.0. There are two external changes
in the Java ecosystem that affect the project - a new LTS version (the
project policy is to support the last two LTS versions of Java) and the
J2EE javax to jakarta package transition. The project may make other
incompatible changes that affect Jena users who use the project as a
code library.
## Community Health:
Activity levels are normal.
One part of 4.9.0 is a significant contribution to re-implement the
in-memory graphs. At the same time, the new implementations follow the
W3C standards as closely as possible. In 4.9.0, the new implementations
are "opt-in". Whether they become the default at 5.0.0 is not yet decided.
