Hello!
I feel like I can't help much in the current discussion. But just wanted to chime in and tell that I'm +1 for a [rdf] component in Apache Commons. As a commons committer I'd like to help. I started watching the GitHub repository and have subscribed to the ongoing discussion. I'll tryto contribute in some way; maybe testing and with small patches. My go-to Maven dependency for RDF, Turtle, N3, working with ontologies, reasoners, etc, is Apache Jena. I think it would be very positive to have a common interface that I could use in my code (mainly crawlers and data munging for Hadoop jobs) and that would work with different implementations. Thanks! Bruno >________________________________ > From: Benedikt Ritter <brit...@apache.org> >To: Commons Developers List <dev@commons.apache.org> >Sent: Thursday, January 15, 2015 6:40 AM >Subject: [ALL][RDF] github Commons RDF vs. Apache Commons Sandbox RDF > > >Hi all, > >I just want to let you know, that I've joined the discussion, the github >commons rdf community is currently having at github [3]. I think it is time >for the PMC to take action here since it feels like there is a conflict in >the beginning. > >Hello Commons RDF community, > >first of all, I'm speaking for myself an not on behalf of the Apache >Commons PMC. > >I'm really confused by this whole situation. This is what happend from my >POV: the Commons RDF community at one point had the idea of moving to >Apache Commons (which in my eyes made sense, given that fact the Apache >Commons is a place to share code between Apache projects). You really began >pushing things, you even requested a git mirror on behalf of the Apache >Commons project from Infra, which now is unused [1]! >Then Commons RDF decided that it didn't what to join Apache Commons >anymore, which was okay (at least for me). > >Later Reto showed up and wanted to try things out in the Apache Commons >Sandbox. This is perfectly okay for us. Every Apache Committer may start >new ideas in our sandbox (in fact we lately granted commit access to all of >our repositories to all ASF committers [2]). However to actually grow out >of the sandbox and become a proper component, there has to be a community >around said component. At the moment, I don't see such a community around >the Apache Commons Sandbox RDF component. But who knows, maybe there will >be such a community one day? Maybe not. We do not force things. We just let >people work with the code (inside the sandbox) the way they like. The is no >threat to this component at all. We don't have an evil plan to destroy >Commons RDF. >The differences regarding how to implement the RDF spec is not of our >business. None of the current Apache Commons team know RDF. Who are we to >judge which approach is the right one? > >I'm copying this message to the Apache Commons mailing list, so that >everybody is up to date. If you want to respond, please also copy your >response to the dev ML. If the Common ML is to noisy: we're using prefixes >on the ML. You just have to define a filter that delete all mail which do >not start with [RDF]. > >I hope we can settle this issue once and for all. Right now it feels like >"Apache Commons are the bad guys" and I don't think we deserve this. > >Regards, >Benedikt > >[1] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/INFRA-8068 >[2] http://markmail.org/message/q5slpso253joca7n > > >[3] https://github.com/commons-rdf/commons-rdf/issues/43 > >-- >http://people.apache.org/~britter/ >http://www.systemoutprintln.de/ >http://twitter.com/BenediktRitter >http://github.com/britter > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@commons.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@commons.apache.org
