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 > > > > > -- --- Marco Neumann KONA
