I'd like to start a discussion on where the project might go longer term.
This can be specific areas, overall design, about project processes,
anything.
If we are going to do a major change, Jena4, what preparation for that
can be done? (e.g. deprecation and signalling in Jena3, before the
change happens).
Realistically, Jena4 means having Jena3 and Jena4 in parallel. Jena4
need not be that big - we can have Jena5 etc.
I'll put some technical points in a separate email.
I would put on the list:
* How has the world changed? What should the project produce?
* Target audience: for developers of Jena, while Jena3 is for users.
* Target: Java14, JPMS.
* Clear-up not easily done with perfect compatibility.
* Simpler. There are APIs and packages entangled due to history.
To the lurkers :-)
Feedback and specific feature requests are welcome. But before you "go
shopping", you may wish to factor in that every feature needs effort to
do it. The better place to be is that an application can get what it
needs to do, not whether the Jena system has every feature built-in.
Andy
