Thanks for the update Rob. In the case of Hadoop Map/Reduce abandonment,
may I ask where you moved to here? Spark?

and yes I agree jena should focus on sound interfaces to 3rd party products
not replicate them at the core.

Best,
Marco

On Mon, Feb 8, 2021 at 11:03 AM Rob Vesse <[email protected]> wrote:

> I think there's a strong argument for retiring Elephas
>
> It was a useful piece of work at the time but didn't get a lot of traction
> and the data analytics/science space has moved on a lot past Hadoop
> Map/Reduce in the meantime.  We've certainly abandoned any support for
> Hadoop Map/Reduce in our products
>
> There's also argument for doing less if we don’t have the
> userbase/contributors to justify it.  OSS as a whole has also moved on a
> lot and its much easier for people to create and support projects on top of
> Jena that add these kinds of extra capabilities that don't make sense in
> the core
>
> Rob
>
> On 05/02/2021, 11:12, "Andy Seaborne" <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>     3.17.0 was 2020-12-01
>     so the usual timescale is end Feb - end March.
>
>     Personally, I'd rather let it slip this time if there are any
> stability
>     issues. That said, we've had a ticket reporting one bug due to clearup
>     so some downstream is at least running with the latest code. (The
>     version number in GIT and in JIRA isn't updated yet.)
>
>     Jena4:
>
>     * Java11 [done]
>           the users@ feedback was this is enough to merit "jena4".
>
>     * Rename default branch as "main"
>
>     * Retire SDB
>
>     * Retire jena-text-es
>
>     * Deprecation cleanup [ongoing...]
>
>     * IRIx abstraction
>        (should this become package: org.apache.jena.iri?
>         and rename the old one?)
>        This may tighten up some illegal use of URIs (%XX -
>          where XX is not hex).
>
>     * jena-core: rename RDFReader as RDFReaderI
>        and RDFWriter a RDFWriterI to avoid name clashes
>
>     * Upgrades (except jetty 10/11 - wait until our Java11 move has gone
> OK)
>
>     jena-elephas does not build on Java11.
>
>     What else, especially things that are changes?
>
>     As ever - contributions welcome!
>
>          Andy
>
>
>
>
>

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