Hi, On Tue, Nov 3, 2015 at 11:09 PM, John D. Ament <johndam...@apache.org> wrote:
> This is my opinion right now. I think one of the struggles with this > podling is that they're their own consumers. It's going to be hard for > them to grow beyond themselves because the consumers are the producers > right now. They're simply providing a default implementation of a spec, > which may only be consumed by a few parties. > Well, the RDF community is rather small, we knew that when we started this trip. But, although small, there were historical incompatibilities we thought we could solve with Commons RDF. Others may have different opinions, but this was not about solving yet-another-time the RDF in Java, but bringing together some core concepts in a usable way. Maybe this is easier to understand with a concrete example I personally have: Marmotta is based on Sesame, and you don' t know how many times that situation blocked me to integrate a Jena-based tool; but the same applies to other projects in the RDF world (Stanbol, Any23, Rya, etc.). Being said that, we got some people of board with the idea that they will benefit the community. Unfortunately that didn't work and, instead of just releasing that ballast, the storm had consequences where we lost one of the main pillars of this projects. I could put names, but we all know who is who. FMPOV it could be fine to let the podling sleeping for a while. After all we've put together a core API we wanted others to try, provide feedback and see if it's feasible its implementation in the target projects: http://commonsrdf.incubator.apache.org/implementations.html#Planned_implementations So our mentors are right. We're in a situation where the project has no momentum at all, and honestly I have no idea what's best to do... -- Sergio Fernández Partner Technology Manager Redlink GmbH m: +43 6602747925 e: sergio.fernan...@redlink.co w: http://redlink.co
