On 01/04/14 12:11, Rob Vesse wrote:
> 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.
Great.
Andy
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> Rob
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> On 01/04/2014 11:19, "Andy Seaborne" <[email protected]> wrote:
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>> 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
>>
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