Is SDB perhaps another candidate for retirement? Adam
On Wed, Jan 20, 2021, 2:21 PM Andy Seaborne <a...@apache.org> wrote: > > On 01/01/2021 12:13, Andy Seaborne wrote: > > Should we switch to Java11? > > Proposal: > > > > 1/ Ask on users@ -- what we need is "new information" such as "I am > > blocked from updating Java because ...", not "I haven't got round to it". > > > > 2/ Switch to Java11 for the next release but not make so many changes > > that we can't easily go back to Java8. > > > > Andy > > The discussion on users@ > > > https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/re6bd2d266343a5dffc2b811df2ed63caea07196db42bb929a6b2fb7d%40%3Cusers.jena.apache.org%3E > > Points: > * bump to Jena4. > * request to keep a parallel 3.x branch (nice if resourced only if > resourced) > > If Jena4, then are there any things we can do which won't significant > impact the timescale - we can take longer of course but I think any > major work item that would need several additional months, and all the > risk of that slipping :-), really must be important. > > 1/ Mass removal of deprecated - a lot has been deprecated for many > versions so removing it a 4.x seems reasonable. I hope people have been > taking note but code can always return if necessary. > > 2/ Retire modules or remove code we do not want to migrate to Jena4, > especially as we can still include it again later if there is > unanticipated user demand. Again, a major version jump is a time to be > bold(er); all code has cost. > > jena-text-es is a candidate from my point of view. No one is maintaining > it and it is complicated to setup and support. > > Andy >
