## Description:
The mission of Jena is the creation and maintenance of software related
to Java framework for building Semantic Web applications
## Issues:
There are no issues requiring board attention.
In the last report, there was a board comment:
""" bd: "Jena has a process for retiring modules: delete in git..." I'm
not sure what you mean by "delete" but I think Apache code should
remain available and easy to find "forever".
"""
Jena develops and releases from a single git repository with several
maven modules. The source-release is produced using the Apache Parent
POM and so it is a copy of the current state of the checked-out code of
the repository at the release point.
When we deprecate a module, we use "git rm" and insert a README file
informing users of the last point in Git history at which it can be
obtained. See for example:
https://github.com/apache/jena/tree/main/jena-spatial
## Membership Data:
Apache Jena was founded 2012-04-18 (10 years ago).
There are currently 18 committers and 14 PMC members in this project.
The Committer-to-PMC ratio is 9:7.
Community changes, past quarter:
- No new PMC members. Last addition was Aaron Coburn on 2019-01-22.
- No new committers. Last addition was Greg Albiston on 2019-07-08.
## Project Activity:
Releases:
Jena 4.3.0 -- 2021-12-09.
Jena 4.3.1 -- 2021-12-13.
Jena 4.3.2 -- 2021-12-19.
The day after Jena 4.3.0 was released, Log4jShell was announced. The PMC
confirmed that Jena was vulnerable and stated the release of 4.3.1 the
same day. Jena 4.3.1 released using the usual voting schedule.
The PMC also agreed how to have a fast-track release should it be needed
in the future. This was used for Jena 4.3.2 with log4j2 updated again.
## Community Health:
There has been a significant increase in discussions about upgrading.
The development community has been experimenting with loading wikidata
(a large dataset from the Wikimedia foundation). This feedback has been
used to improve the bulk loading of data into a Jena RDF database.
There is a new UI for the Jena Fuseki triplestore which replaces the
quite old javascript with a more modern development process making it
easier to keep the code up-to-date.
