Ok, I think probably what is best is if I roll up the relevant stuff into patches on the JIRA so you can apply them yourself. They’ll be one for the incubator website and one for Jena
I can probably also add my Powerpoint slides to the JIRA issue which summarise a lot of what is (and isn’t there) and I’ll send a write up to the list at some point this week. Rob On 01/04/2014 11:19, "Andy Seaborne" <[email protected]> wrote: >On 01/04/14 10:25, Rob Vesse wrote: >> Andy >> >> I have now got all the necessary legal and management clearance from >>Cray to >> move ahead with donating the experimental Hadoop RDF work that we¹ve >> previously discussed privately to the Jena project. > >I know about it but not what it is I'm very interested in seeing it ... > >> So I am ready to move >> forwards with the IP Clearance process but I¹ve run into a slight snag >>in >> that it appears to require an ASF Member/Officer to actually formally be >> responsible for executing the process. >> >> I think in reality this just means that an ASF member has to check that >>all >> the boxes have been appropriately ticked and run the necessary votes >>once we >> reach that stage of the process. As you are an ASF member would you be >> willing to do this? > > >> I am happy to do all the leg work, I already have the IP clearance >>document >> ready to commit to the Incubator website and the initial code base >>ready to >> commit to the Experimental area. Once these initial things are >>committed I >> can start working through the remaining steps such as changing the >>Copyright >> Headers, putting together the NOTICE and LICENSE files appropriately >>etc. I >> will also go ahead and file a JIRA for tracking purposes. >> >> Before I start on this I wanted to check that you are OK with acting as >>the >> responsible person for this? > >/me off to read up on the process ... > >Yes, fine. I have incubator karma to update the IP pages. > >Full steam ahead! > >> >> Cheers, >> >> Rob > >In terms of the destination being the Jena project, this looks like it >is fully aligned to the project charter: > >""" > the creation and maintenance of > open-source software related to accessing, storing, querying, > publishing and reasoning with semantic web data while > adhering to relevant W3C and community standards > for distribution at no charge to the public. >""" > >and I (personally) am quite relaxed about any variety if there is some >connection to Jena even if it's quite small (e.g. there is at least one >import statement like "org.apache.jena....."!). We can't, in all >honesty, adopt random other unrelated software without at least checking >with other linked data projects in ASF. But at the same time, linked >data @ASF isn't the Hadoop-infrastructure ecosystem where each piece can >sustain it's own TLP. > > Andy >
