Is there a way for the community (i.e. people without write access to the SVN) to help build the website - e.g. confluence to website publishing like some other projects have? A git repository that could accept pull requests to edits for the website files, etc?
I'm sure there are folks out there that'd be wlling to help, myself included. There are also 3 new community driven Jena contributions created over the past 5 weeks that weren't in the report, and while I'm both the author and biased, I think they are compelling and help promote and build Jena amongst a new group of developers (groovy/grails developers) that may not have been aware of Jena or the Semantic Web technology stack(s) before. 1. Groovy SPARQL, a Groovy domain specific language that enables easy development with Jena with the Groovy language 2. Spring-Jena, a set of Spring aware beans for more easily working with Jena in an idiomatic spring framework environment 3. Linked Ratpack, a Sinatra style microframework for readily building small linked data RDF servers using Groovy SPARQL and other DSLs around Jena - e.g. SPARQL construct to RDF, de-reference URIs to Jena models, and the RDFBuilder from Groovy SPARQL. All three are in their infancy, and their documentation lives on my blog [4], but they each garnered some attention in various development circles. I'll likely do a Gaelyk and Grails plugin as well for further exposing Jena into those environments and creating rapid development solutions for people to get started with semantic web development more easily. Regards, Al Baker [1] https://github.com/AlBaker/GroovySparql [2] https://github.com/AlBaker/SpringJena [3] https://github.com/AlBaker/LinkedRatpack [4] http://linkedjava.blogspot.com/ On Sat, Aug 6, 2011 at 6:14 PM, Ross Gardler <[email protected]>wrote: > On 6 August 2011 18:33, Andy Seaborne <[email protected]> > wrote: > > Added to the report on a the wiki: > > > > http://wiki.apache.org/incubator/August2011 > > > > A mentor : could you check and sign off please. > > Given that the project has been in incubation for ten months now I, as > a mentor, find it quite concerning that there is still no Apache > hosted site, that lists are only now starting to be migrated (and even > then only with a note in the footer). Of course I do have some > understanding of why this is the case, but at the same time there are > many projects that face the same kinds of issues that Jena faces. > > I suggest that as well as reporting progress there should be a one > line explanation as to why it's taking such a long time to move the > community here. Given that the main motivation was to build community > it is somewhat of a worry that the approach being taken is, shall we > say, unusual. > > Other projects of the scale of Jena (in fact in many cases much > larger) found that a wholesale migration was much more effective. I am > aware we discussed this on entry and the project community decided to > take it slowly, but just how slowly is healthy? > > Ross >
