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WHEREAS, the Project Management Committee of the Apache Stanbol project has arrived at a consensus to recommend moving the project to the Attic; and WHEREAS, the Board of Directors deems it no longer in the best interest of the Foundation to continue the Apache Stanbol project due to inactivity; NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, that the Apache Stanbol project is hereby terminated; and be it further RESOLVED, that the Attic PMC be and hereby is tasked with oversight over the software developed by the Apache Stanbol Project; and be it further RESOLVED, that the office of "Vice President, Apache Stanbol" is hereby terminated; and be it further RESOLVED, that the Apache Stanbol PMC is hereby terminated. Special Order 7F, Terminate the Apache Stanbol Project, was approved by Unanimous Vote of the directors present.
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@Dave: push for Attic discussion with PMC and community
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@Shane: pursue a roll call for Stanbol
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@Danny: pursue a report for Stanbol
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@Joan: pursue a report for Stanbol
## Description: Apache Stanbol provides a set of reusable components for semantic content management. ## Issues: - There are no issues requiring board attention at this time ## Activity: The project is in a recovery phase after a couple of years of deficient activity both from committers and users (low activity in the mailing lists too). Since the last report, the main technical activities have been: - Security review for non-https dependency URLs in maven files - Preliminary meetings between some committers to refactor some obsolete modules and make some architecture changes for adopting modern approaches and technologies that could make the project more attractive to the community. ## Health report: - At this moment, the project continues to be almost in stand-by until we manage to expand the community following the plan described above. ## PMC changes: - Currently, 23 PMC members. - No new members since the last report. - Last new PMC member was Antonio David Perez Morales on December 21st, 2018 ## Committer base changes: - Currently, 27 committers. - No new committers since the last report - Last committer addition was Furkan Kamaci on December 18th, 2018 ## Releases: - Last release was Apache Stanbol 1.0.0 on Oct 23rd, 2016 ## JIRA activity: - 1 JIRA tickets created in the last three months
WHEREAS, the Board of Directors heretofore appointed Fabian Christ (fchrist) to the office of Vice President, Apache Stanbol, and WHEREAS, the Board of Directors is in receipt of the resignation of Fabian Christ from the office of Vice President, Apache Stanbol, and WHEREAS, the Project Management Committee of the Apache Stanbol project has chosen by vote to recommend Rafa Haro (rharo) as the successor to the post; NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, that Fabian Christ is relieved and discharged from the duties and responsibilities of the office of Vice President, Apache Stanbol, and BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that Rafa Haro be and hereby is appointed to the office of Vice President, Apache Stanbol, to serve in accordance with and subject to the direction of the Board of Directors and the Bylaws of the Foundation until death, resignation, retirement, removal or disqualification, or until a successor is appointed. Special Order 7B, Change the Apache Stanbol Project Chair, was approved by Unanimous Vote of the directors present.
Apache Stanbol provides a set of reusable components for semantic content management. The project is in a recovery phase after a couple of years of deficient activity both from committers and users (low activity in the mailing lists too). The conclusion to the last email threads, where the level of interest in the project from past users and contributors was trying to be measured, is that the previous releases help developers to use Stanbol stably. However, the ongoing development has stopped from a long time now, and there were no plans so far to implement new features or re-engineer some of the older modules. The Apache board started a discussion about electing a new chair who is much more involved in the daily business of Stanbol. A new PMC member (Antonio Pérez) has been elected recently. It was ensured that, at least, there were 3 PMC members already active in the project. The Stanbol PMC should focus now on expanding the community by attracting new committers and users. One discussed possibility is to re-architecture the most complex parts of the project and simplify the code base, promoting those features identified as most demanded by the users/devs. Subscribers on the dev list: 227 Last new committer was Furkan Kamaci on December 18th, 2018 Last new PMC member was Antonio David Perez Morales on December 21st, 2018 Last stack release was: Apache Stanbol 1.0.0 on Oct 23rd, 2016
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@Rich: follow up with Stanbol
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@Roman: is this project still viable?
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@Brett: pursue a report for Stanbol
Apache Stanbol provides a set of reusable components for semantic content management. The project is still in sleep mode. No activity on the dev list and no progress in terms of commits. The last commit was pushed in March 2017 but there is no work happening towards a 1.0.1 release at the moment. There has been an initiative to place a GSoC project and we have a student which is interested. Discussions about the scope of the project are currently made. Beside the fact that not much is happening there is no issue which requires board attention at the moment. Subscribers on the dev list: 219 Last new committer was Cristian Petroaca on May 7th, 2015 Last new PMC member were Cristian Petroaca on July 28th, 2016 Rafa Haro on July 28th, 2016 Last stack release was: Apache Stanbol 1.0.0 on Oct 23rd, 2016 Last component release was: Apache Stanbol Partial Security Release RC2 on June 5th, 2014 org.apache.stanbol.commons.security.reactor-20140602
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@Brett: pursue a report for Stanbol
Apache Stanbol provides a set of reusable components for semantic content management. The project is in a kind of sleep mode. People are involved in other activities and do not find that much time for Stanbol at the moment even though community members reported to use Stanbol on a regular basis. The board checked that at least three PMC members are still active and available. That is still the case so there is no urgent action required by the board. Since the last commit was pushed in March there is no work happening towards a 1.0.1 release. Subscribers on the dev list: 219 Last new committer was Cristian Petroaca on May 7th, 2015 Last new PMC member were Cristian Petroaca on July 28th, 2016 Rafa Haro on July 28th, 2016 Last stack release was: Apache Stanbol 1.0.0 on Oct 23rd, 2016 Last component release was: Apache Stanbol Partial Security Release RC2 on June 5th, 2014 org.apache.stanbol.commons.security.reactor-20140602
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@Mark: ensure that there are 3 active PMC members
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Apache Stanbol provides a set of reusable components for semantic content management. The project made no significant progress since the last report. The mailing list was quiet and no discussions happened since May. Since the last commit was pushed in March there is no work happening towards a 1.0.1 release at the moment. The slow progress may not be a problem but the lack of activity is something that concerns. People responded that they are using Stanbol but show not much interest so far in contributing. Maybe Stanbol is in its current state just right for their needs. Subscribers on the dev list: 231 Last new committer was Cristian Petroaca on May 7th, 2015 Last new PMC member were Cristian Petroaca on July 28th, 2016 Rafa Haro on July 28th, 2016 Last stack release was: Apache Stanbol 1.0.0 on Oct 23rd, 2016 Last component release was: Apache Stanbol Partial Security Release RC2 on June 5th, 2014 org.apache.stanbol.commons.security.reactor-20140602
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Apache Stanbol provides a set of reusable components for semantic content management. We started a discussion about who is using Stanbol and encouraged the people who actively use (and depend) on Stanbol to contribute and become part of the developer community. Unfortunately, the technological barrier is rather high and people are a little bit overwhelmed with the large code base and the number of OSGi bundles. So people need time to get familiar with that. This may be one reason why not much happened since then. No new contributions from people outside the PMC were made. The PMC itself has only one active (code) contributer over the last months. The PMC is aware of the situation but at the moment the lack of time and availability of persons make it very difficult to change something fundamentally. However, there are at least three PMC members who are active in a way that security issues can be handled and new releases can be published if required. Subscribers on the dev list: 231 Last new committer was Cristian Petroaca on May 7th, 2015 Last new PMC member were Cristian Petroaca on July 28th, 2016 Rafa Haro on July 28th, 2016 Last stack release was: Apache Stanbol 1.0.0 on Oct 23rd, 2016 Last component release was: Apache Stanbol Partial Security Release RC2 on June 5th, 2014 org.apache.stanbol.commons.security.reactor-20140602
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@Bertrand: pursue a report for Stanbol
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Apache Stanbol provides a set of reusable components for semantic content management. After the 1.0.0 release it got a bit quiet around the project and the community. No commit was made since November 2016. The discussion about electing a new PMC chair who may drive the project is also in an idle state. No one so far stood up to take the job. We plan to start a new discussion in 2017 about the future of Stanbol. Subscribers on the dev list: 227 Last new committer was Cristian Petroaca on May 7th, 2015 Last new PMC member were Cristian Petroaca on July 28th, 2016 Rafa Haro on July 28th, 2016 Last stack release was: Apache Stanbol 1.0.0 on Oct 23rd, 2016 Last component release was: Apache Stanbol Partial Security Release RC2 on June 5th, 2014 org.apache.stanbol.commons.security.reactor-20140602
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Apache Stanbol provides a set of reusable components for semantic content management. The project finally managed to invite two new PMC members. One of these two new members, Rafa Haro, also managed to cut a release after more than two years without a major release. From the technical side the project is doing okay now. The release helps people to use Stanbol in a stable manner. However, the ongoing development is rather slow and no plans were made until now for future releases. The project chair started a discussion about electing a new chair who is much more involved in the daily business of Stanbol. Since the current chair has less time for Stanbol (the missed reports is a clear indication), it may be good to handover to someone else. However, it is not the intention to just drop the job but to drive the discussion for a new chair. Subscribers on the dev list: 227 Last new committer was Cristian Petroaca on May 7th, 2015 Last new PMC member were Cristian Petroaca on July 28th, 2016 Rafa Haro on July 28th, 2016 Last stack release was: Apache Stanbol 1.0.0 on Oct 23rd, 2016 Last component release was: Apache Stanbol Partial Security Release RC2 on June 5th, 2014 org.apache.stanbol.commons.security.reactor-20140602
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@Shane: pursue a report for Stanbol; check on the status of the new chair discussions
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Apache Stanbol provides a set of reusable components for semantic content management. The project is doing fine on a low level. The major blocker is still the stocked release process. People do not find the time to cut new releases or to hand over the process to other PMC members. The project is focused on easing the use of Stanbol and use resources like Docker images. The project also received contributions in terms of improved documentation which will be included in the near futur. In combination with an improved release process Stanbol should become more easy to use to end users. The project voted for two new PMC members. The board has been notified but we need to wait for the 72 hours period to end until we invite them officially. The vote for new PMC members is a first step to hand over the planned improvements and the release process to a new generation of people. Subscribers on the dev list: 231 Last new committer was Cristian Petroaca on May 7th, 2015 Last stack release was: Apache Stanbol 0.12 on Mar 2nd, 2014 Last component release was: Apache Stanbol Partial Security Release RC2 on June 5th, 2014 org.apache.stanbol.commons.security.reactor-20140602
Apache Stanbol provides a set of reusable components for semantic content management. The project has proceeded to work on a new release. Since the project did not release anything for two years now, there are some things to catch up in order to make the release process more easy to handle. The project is discussing to invite new PMC members and will start a vote for new members soon. Subscribers on the dev list: 231 Last new committer was Cristian Petroaca on May 7th, 2015 No new PMC member was elected since the graduation of Apache Stanbol on Sep 19th, 2012. Last stack release was: Apache Stanbol 0.12 on Mar 2nd, 2014 Last component release was: Apache Stanbol Partial Security Release RC2 on June 5th, 2014 org.apache.stanbol.commons.security.reactor-20140602
Apache Stanbol provides a set of reusable components for semantic content management. First, appologies for the missed reports. We had to report in December but missed that plus the January report. There are no issues which require board attention at the moment. However, the project is in a phase where new/other people should take over the lead as chairman since the current chairman Fabian Christ has less and less time to manage the project. Therefore, the project will start to find a new person for this job. Additionally, a first suggestion was started to invite new people to become PMC members and potentially new leaders for the project. At code level the project is doing fine. The project started to reorganize a lot of old JIRA issues and tries to focus on the relevant tasks. The project did not manage to cut new releases. This is also an issue of finding new people to become more responsible for the project and start creating releases. Bertrand Delacretaz has resigned from the Stanbol PMC on December, 1st 2015 Subscribers on the dev list: 233 Last new committer was Cristian Petroaca on May 7th, 2015 No new PMC member was elected since the graduation of Apache Stanbol on Sep 19th, 2012. Last stack release was: Apache Stanbol 0.12 on Mar 2nd, 2014 Last component release was: Apache Stanbol Partial Security Release RC2 on June 5th, 2014 org.apache.stanbol.commons.security.reactor-20140602
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@Chris: pursue a report for Stanbol
Apache Stanbol provides a set of reusable components for semantic content management. There are no issues which require board attention at the moment. The project is working on updating the JIRA issues and bringing the code base into a state that allows easier release cutting. We had an issue with a crashed testbed server running at http://dev.iks-project.eu/ that was now resolved. The server is available again. A hint by Mike Kienenberger to invite additional people as PMC members to increase their involvement in Stanbol was recognized. The current PMC is now looking for opportunities to bring in new people to the Stanbol PMC. Subscribers on the dev list: 227 Last new committer was Cristian Petroaca on May 7th, 2015 No new PMC member was elected since the graduation of Apache Stanbol on Sep 19th, 2012. Last stack release was: Apache Stanbol 0.12 on Mar 2nd, 2014 Last component release was: Apache Stanbol Partial Security Release RC2 on June 5th, 2014 org.apache.stanbol.commons.security.reactor-20140602
Apache Stanbol provides a set of reusable components for semantic content management. There are no issues which require board attention at the moment. The project is doing well but on a slow level. Main issue at the moment may be that there is no one who is cutting releases from time to time. The last release was cut one year ago. The project is aware of this issue and is working on it. For the first time in the project's lifetime the number of subscribers on the dev list has dropped by about 10 subscribers. Subscribers on the dev list: 226 Cristian Petroaca was voted for as a new committer on May 7th, 2015. Last new committer was Cristian Petroaca on May 7th, 2015 No new PMC member was elected since the graduation of Apache Stanbol on Sep 19th, 2012. Last stack release was: Apache Stanbol 0.12 on Mar 2nd, 2014 Last component release was: Apache Stanbol Partial Security Release RC2 on June 5th, 2014 org.apache.stanbol.commons.security.reactor-20140602
Apache Stanbol provides a set of reusable components for semantic content management. There are no issues which require board attention at the moment. The development pace slowed down a little. The core developers seem to have less time to spent on Stanbol at the moment. Therefore, the development towards version 1.0 is delayed and no releases were cut lately. The project is still in process of preparing a 0.12.1 maintenance release. Subscribers on the dev list: 232 No new committers or PMC members were elected but the project is currently in the phase of voting to invite a candidate as a new committer. Last new committer was Antonio David Perez Morales on Jan 14th, 2014 No new PMC member was elected since the graduation of Apache Stanbol on Sep 19th, 2012. Last stack release was: Apache Stanbol 0.12 on Mar 2nd, 2014 Last component release was: Apache Stanbol Partial Security Release RC2 on June 5th, 2014 org.apache.stanbol.commons.security.reactor-20140602
Apache Stanbol provides a set of reusable components for semantic content management. There are no issues which require board attention at the moment. The project is performing well and the development is going towards version 1.0. Some minor tasks are still to do. In the meantime the project is preparing a 0.12.1 maintenance release. The Stanbol project has participated at the ApacheCon EU with a talk by Rupert Westenthaler about a possible new annotation model for Apache Stanbol [1, 2 (slides)]. In this context Stanbol was offered the possibility to send a member to the W3C group working on Open Annotation. [1] http://s.apache.org/AwS [2] http://s.apache.org/CUX Subscribers on the dev list: 217 No new committers or PMC members were elected. Last new committer was Antonio David Perez Morales on Jan 14th, 2014 No new PMC member was elected since the graduation of Apache Stanbol on Sep 19th, 2012. Last stack release was: Apache Stanbol 0.12 on Mar 2nd, 2014 Last component release was: Apache Stanbol Partial Security Release RC2 on June 5th, 2014 org.apache.stanbol.commons.security.reactor-20140602
Apache Stanbol provides a set of reusable components for semantic content
management.
There are no issues which require board attention at the moment.
The project is performing well and the development is going towards
version 1.0.
The Stanbol project is participating in this year's Google Summer of Code
(GSoC) program. Initially we had 4 active projects. 3/4 GSoC project were
successful. One dropped before mid term because the student disappeared
right after the start.
The three successful projects are
1. Enhancement Workflows. Enterprise Integration Patterns in
Apache Stanbol (STANBOL-1008)
Student: Antonio David Perez Morales
Mentors: Florent André, Rafa Haro
2. Integrate YAGO2 and AIDA NED with Apache Stanbol (STANBOL-1384)
Student: Chalitha Perera
Mentor: Rafa Haro
3. Speech to Text Enhancement Engine for Apache Stanbol
(STANBOL-1007)
Student: Suman Saurabh
Mentor: Andreas Kuckartz
All three projects have provided patches with the results. Those will
be integrated to the Stanbol code base with the help of the Mentors
and the Students.
Subscribers on the dev list: 217
No new committers or PMC members were elected.
Last new committer was
Antonio David Perez Morales on Jan 14th, 2014
Last stack release was:
Apache Stanbol 0.12 on Mar 2nd, 2014
Last component release was:
Apache Stanbol Partial Security Release RC2 on June 5th, 2014
org.apache.stanbol.commons.security.reactor-20140602
Apache Stanbol provides a set of reusable components for semantic content
management.
There are no issues which require board attention at the moment.
The project is performing well and the development is going on for the
maintain 0.12 release branch and the trunk towards version 1.0. Recently,
a partial security release was published.
The Stanbol project is participating in this year's Google Summer of Code
(GSoC) program. There we have four active projects:
1. Enhancement Workflows. Enterprise Integration Patterns in
Apache Stanbol
Student: Antonio David Perez Morales
Mentors: Florent André, Rafa Haro
2. Integrate YAGO2 and AIDA NED with Apache Stanbol
Student: Chalitha Perera
Mentor: Rafa Haro
3. STANBOL-1294 Topic Classification Framework Proposol for
Stanbol
Student: Furkan KAMACI
Mentors: Rupert Westenthaler, Andreas Kuckartz
4. Speech to Text Enhancement Engine for Apache Stanbol
Student: Suman Saurabh
Mentor: Andreas Kuckartz
Subscribers on the dev list: 218
No new committers or PMC members were elected.
Last new committer was
Antonio David Perez Morales on Jan 14th, 2014
Last stack release was:
Apache Stanbol 0.12 on Mar 2nd, 2014
Last component release was:
Apache Stanbol Partial Security Release RC2 on June 5th, 2014
org.apache.stanbol.commons.security.reactor-20140602
Apache Stanbol provides a set of reusable components for semantic content management. There are no issues which require board attention at the moment. The project is performing well and the 0.12 release was recently published. The trunk development is now heading towards a 1.0 release. The release-0.12 branch will be further maintained for future bug fix releases. There is a good mail frequency on the dev list and questions from users are handled promptly. The community is currently discussing proposals for the upcoming GSoC. Subscribers on the dev list: 213 We have elected two new committers who had worked on Stanbol during the 2013 GSoC projects. Dileepa Jayakody was elected as a new committer on Jan 14th, 2014 Antonio David Perez Morales was elected as a new committer on Jan 14th, 2014 Apache Stanbol 0.12 was released on Mar 2nd, 2014 Last release was: apache-stanbol-enhancement-engines-0.10.0 on Feb 2nd, 2013
Apache Stanbol provides a set of reusable components for semantic content management. The project missed to report on their regular schedule in December 2013, therefore this report was prepared for January 2014. There are no issues which require board attention at the moment. The project is performing well and new features are added on a regular basis. The dev mailing list is actively in use. Requests from subscribers are handled promptly. The release process is still slow which means that the project was unable to produce a release since Feb 2013. The reason seems to be that release preparation is to time consuming and there are not enough committers that are capable of performing a release. As a consequence the current Stanbol users mostly rely on the latest versions from the dev trunk or the already existing release branch. The project is aware of this situation and is working on that issue. Subscribers on the dev list: 210 No new committers were elected since June 2013. No releases were published. Last release was: apache-stanbol-enhancement-engines-0.10.0 on Feb 2nd, 2013
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AI: Brett to pursue a report for Stanbol
Apache Stanbol provides a set of reusable components for semantic content management. There are no issues which require board attention at the moment. The project's activities in terms of new development got a little bit slower during the summer. Nonetheless do we have a steady activity on the mailing list through user requests and interest in possible new features. There were plans for a summer term release but this has not been finally prepared yet. So the next step is to cut a new release which is really needed for the community. In this context we have also started to work on a new branch towards a 1.0.0 release of Stanbol. Our PMC member Reto Bachman-Gmür wrote a book about Apache Stanbol which got published at Packt Publishing: http://www.packtpub.com/apache-stanbol/book Two Stanbol students are doing create work in their GSoC projects: Freebase Entity Disambiguation in Apache Stanbol Student: Antonio David Perez Morales Mentor : Rupert Westenthaler http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/project/google/gsoc2013/adperezmorales/10001 FOAF Co-reference Based Entity Disambiguation Engine In Apache Stanbol Student: Dileepa Jayakody Mentor : Andreas Kuckartz http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/project/google/gsoc2013/dileepaj/14001 Subscribers on the dev list: 186 No new committers were elected. No releases were published. Last release was: apache-stanbol-enhancement-engines-0.10.0 on Feb 2nd, 2013
Apache Stanbol provides a set of reusable components for semantic content management. There are no issues which require board attention at the moment. The project is active and development is steadily going on. The project faces the challenge of handling a large code base. A discussion on how to improve the maintainability of the Stanbol components has started. Two Stanbol proposals were selected for this years GSoC: Freebase Entity Disambiguation in Apache Stanbol Student: Antonio David Perez Morales Mentor : Rupert Westenthaler http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/project/google/gsoc2013/adperezmorales/10001 FOAF Co-reference Based Entity Disambiguation Engine In Apache Stanbol Student: Dileepa Jayakody Mentor : Andreas Kuckartz http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/project/google/gsoc2013/dileepaj/14001 Subscribers on the dev list: 186 Sergio Fernández was elected as a new committer on Jun 4th, 2013 Rafa Haro was elected as a new committer on Jun 4th, 2013 Fabian Christ has been voted as ASF member at the May 2013 Members' meeting No releases were published since March 2013 report. Last release was: apache-stanbol-enhancement-engines-0.10.0 on Feb 2nd, 2013
Apache Stanbol provides a set of reusable components for semantic content management. There are no issues which require board attention at the moment. The project is active and development is steadily going on for the components Enhancer, Entityhub, and Contenthub. One of the latest contributions is an archetype for easily getting started with implementing an enhancement engine. Unfortunately, there is not much activity in the development of the Ontologymanager, Rules, and Reasoner components. The project needs to discuss the status and future plans of those components since there are about 50 open issues in Jira. Subscribers on the dev list: 178 Meric Taze was elected as a new committer on Feb 14th 2013. The project cut releases of the following components: - source-assembly-1.0.0 - stanbol-parent-3 - apache-stanbol-data-1.1.0 - apache-stanbol-commons-0.11.0 - apache-stanbol-contenthub-0.10.0 - apache-stanbol-entityhub-0.11.0 - apache-stanbol-enhancer-0.10.0 - apache-stanbol-enhancement-engines-0.10.0
Apache Stanbol provides a set of reusable components for semantic content management. The project is active and development is steadily going on. There is a great interest for new features from new users. They would like to add additional features in Stanbol and the community is trying to get them involved by explaining the Apache way and working out how they can contribute to Stanbol. Additionally, the project received some contributions in the form of new enhancement engines that are currently reviewed and integrated. There were no new committers or PMC members elected. Several Stanbol committers have signaled that they will contribute to Clerezza (incubating), especially to the parts needed by Stanbol. The Stanbol community is looking forward to see Clerezza graduate from the Incubator. Several Stanbol committers are involved in the new Apache Marmotta (incubating) podling. Marmotta provides linked data functionality that is of great interest for Stanbol. The project did not manage to publish releases since graduation. Required refactorings and branch mergings for the new natural language processing design (STANBOL-733) kept us busy. Since this work is nearly finished the project is optimistic to create the first releases soon.
Apache Stanbol provides a set of reusable components for semantic content management. The project is active and development is steadily going on. New users and questions pop up on the mailing list and the community starts to help each other - even without the need of any core committer which is a good sign. Stanbol committers were actively involved in the ApacheCon EU. There were three Stanbol related talks in the Linked Data track. The feedback from the Apache community was very positive and many more people are now aware of the existence of Stanbol. There were no new committers or PMC members elected. There are discussions going on about merging code from Apache Clerezza (incubating) into Stanbol. No final decisions made yet. The project did not manage to publish new releases the last month but is working on that.
Apache Stanbol provides a set of reusable components for semantic content management. The Apache Stanbol Project was established in September 2012. Since then, the project has moved its infrastructure to the new location. Thanks to Infra and the graduation guide the move was really painless. The project got lots of very positive feedback in response to the graduation from the Incubator. This was also expressed in the official ASF announcement. The very active community has lots of hope that Stanbol will now establish as a reliable platform for semantic services. The project team tries to keep the momentum up and is steadily improving Stanbol. The project plans to publish 1.0 releases of all components over the next weeks.
WHEREAS, the Board of Directors deems it to be in the best interests of the Foundation and consistent with the Foundation's purpose to establish a Project Management Committee charged with the creation and maintenance of open-source software, for distribution at no charge to the public, related to a set of reusable components for semantic content management. NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, that a Project Management Committee (PMC), to be known as the "Apache Stanbol Project", be and hereby is established pursuant to Bylaws of the Foundation; and be it further RESOLVED, that the Apache Stanbol Project be and hereby is responsible for the creation and maintenance of software related to a set of reusable components for semantic content management; and be it further RESOLVED, that the office of "Vice President, Apache Stanbol" be and hereby is created, the person holding such office to serve at the direction of the Board of Directors as the chair of the Apache Stanbol Project, and to have primary responsibility for management of the projects within the scope of responsibility of the Apache Stanbol Project; and be it further RESOLVED, that the persons listed immediately below be and hereby are appointed to serve as the initial members of the Apache Stanbol Project: * Alessandro Adamou <alexdma@apache.org> * Ali Anil Sinaci <sinaci@apache.org> * Andrea Nuzzolese <anuzzolese@apache.org> * Andreas Gruber <agruber@apache.org> * Andreas Kuckartz <aku@apache.org> * Benjamin Nagel <bnagel@apache.org> * Bertrand Delacretaz <bdelacretaz@apache.org> * Cihan Cimen <cihan@apache.org> * Concetto Bonafede <concelvio@apache.org> * Enrico Daga <enridaga@apache.org> * Fabian Christ <fchrist@apache.org> * Florent André <florent@apache.org> * Olivier Grisel <ogrisel@apache.org> * Ozgur Kilic <ozgur@apache.org> * Reto Bachmann-Gmür <reto@apache.org> * Rupert Westenthaler <rwesten@apache.org> * Suat Gonul <suat@apache.org> * Tommaso Teofili <tommaso@apache.org> * Valentina Presutti <val@apache.org> * Walter Kasper <wkasper@apache.org> NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that Fabian Christ be appointed to the office of Vice President, Apache Stanbol, to serve in accordance with and subject to the direction of the Board of Directors and the Bylaws of the Foundation until death, resignation, retirement, removal or disqualification, or until a successor is appointed; and be it further RESOLVED, that the initial Apache Stanbol PMC be and hereby is tasked with the creation of a set of bylaws intended to encourage open development and increased participation in the Apache Stanbol Project; and be it further RESOLVED, that the Apache Stanbol Project be and hereby is tasked with the migration and rationalization of the Apache Incubator Stanbol podling; and be it further RESOLVED, that all responsibilities pertaining to the Apache Incubator Stanbol podling encumbered upon the Apache Incubator Project are hereafter discharged. Special Order 7B, Establish the Apache Stanbol Project, was approved by Unanimous Vote of the directors present.
Apache Stanbol is an open source modular software stack and reusable set of components for semantic content management. Incubating since November, 2010. Graduation: There are no more remaining issues for graduation. Since the last report the project made a 2nd release of a single component showing that Stanbol is able to release single components (and modules). The project has updated its status page at [1] and opened PODLINGNAMESEARCH-8 [2] to establish Stanbol as a project name. Since there seem to be no issues against graduation from our mentors the next step is to create and discuss a resolution. [1] http://incubator.apache.org/projects/stanbol.html [2] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PODLINGNAMESEARCH-8 Community: No new committers or PPMC members since the last report, but steady activity on our lists from both existing and new members of our community. The Integration with DBpedia Spotlight resulted in a contribution of the resulting Enhancement Engines (STANBOL-706) Mihaly Heder joined the community and is working on an Stanbol UIMA Adapter (allows to use Apache UIMA as Stanbol Enhancement Engine and to convert UIMA results to the Stanbol Enhancement Engine (see http://markmail.org/thread/frog2pnarpedmkdq) Apache Stanbol was integrated into the LOD2 (http://lod2.eu/) - meaning that LOD2 manages now a Debian package for Apache Stanbol. In addition there are also talks between the Stanbol and the NIF community (see http://markmail.org/thread/oq3y4ae2rhtbmpri) The RDF extension of Google Refine http://refine.deri.ie release support for reconciling using the Apache Stanbol Entityhub (see http://markmail.org/message/lv3oj7m6agwmc7eg) Several nice blogs from Apache Stanbol users e.g. on how to implement Enhancemnt Engines (http://formcept.com/blog/stanbol/) GSoC project MidTerm results (http://markmail.org/thread/57lvkd2agtxpri54) Apache Stanbol was a major topic of the IKS Community Workshop in Salzburg. Many new and Interesting Stanbol use cases where shown. Blogs about a lot of those can be found at http://blog.iks-project.eu/ Project activity: - New utility for performance/stress testing of the Stanbol Enhancer - Added "Managed Sites" to the Stanbol Entityhub (allows to manage Entities by using the Entityhub RESTful API - Major improvements to the Ontology Manager see http://markmail.org/thread/xeiafefwj3ovnesi - First working version of (STANBOL-471): Also ongoing work to adopt this "store -> index" architecture also for the Stanbol Entityhub. - High number of small improvements and bug fixes (> 70 solved Isses since June) Signed-off-by: rgardler, bdelacretaz, jukka
Apache Stanbol is an open source modular software stack and reusable set of components for semantic content management. Incubating since November, 2010. Graduation: We believe Stanbol will be ready to graduate in the next few days: the issues mentioned in our previous report have been adressed, the release is being voted on (after six iterations of release candidates) and should be out in the next few days if all goes well. Community activity is steady and slowly increasing. Community: No new committers or PPMC members since the last report, but steady activity on our lists from both existing and new members of our community. Two Stanbol committers have been elected as Clerezza committers, furthering ties between both podlings. A Stanbol GSoC project has been accepted, with Rupert Westenthaler as its mentor. Contribution of several EnhancementEngines based on LinguaGrid (NLP framework) by Alessio Bosca (STANBOL-583). Integration of DBpedia Spotlight (http://dbpedia.org/spotlight) with the Stanbol Enhancer, led by a new Stanbol contributor. Stanbol was presented in the Developer Track of WWW2012 (slides: http://s.apache.org/AgK) Project activity: - Reorganization of the codebase for the release, the one binary dependency left that's not available in Maven Central has been moved to a separate -deps package for the release, as discussed on the incubator general list. - Content hub faceted search improvements. - New EnhancementEngine based on Apache Tika - TopicEngine (STANBOL-197) is now functional - Full LDpath support for the Entityhub Indexing tools (STANBOL-408). Signed off by mentor: bdelacretaz, rgardler
Apache Stanbol is an open source modular software stack and reusable set of components for semantic content management. Incubating since November, 2010. Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation. - Make a first release (depends on a first release of Apache Clerezza to eliminate SNAPSHOT dependencies) - Auditing/clarifying multiple maven repositories and corresponding dependencies - Make the data models downloadable independently from the ASF repositories to avoid gray copyright / licensing issues (for instance for the OpenNLP models). How has the community developed since the last report? - Reto Bachmann Gmuer and Ali Anil Sinaci has been elected as new committers. - Alberto Musetti has contributed to the project by providing patches - David Riccitelli provided patch that uses the Stanbol Commons Jobs to implement an Asynchronous RESTful API for the Stanbol Enhancer. How has the project developed since the last report. Features: - LDPath (http://code.google.com/p/ldpath/) support for Entityhub and Contenthub - Contenthub now supports multiple semantic indexes and Solr RESTful API can be directly used for search - Enhancer now support for multiple Enhancement Chains and multi-part ContentItems. Work on extended RESTful API will be finished soon. - Enhancement Engine for Topic Classification (STANBOL-197) - First version of a Apache Stanbol/Apache Camel integration Improved Documentation (both on the Stanbol Homepage and the Web UI of Apache Stanbol) Signed off by mentor: bdelacretaz, tommaso
Stanbol is a modular software stack and reusable set of components for semantic content management. Entered incubation on 2010-11-15. There are no issues that require the Incubator PMC or ASF Board attention at this time. 1) Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation. 1a) Make a first release (depends on a first release of Apache Clerezza to eliminate SNAPSHOT dependencies) No concrete progress here. 1b) Create demos showing the power of Stanbol to grow the community Demo server at http://dev.iks-project.eu, should be moved to Apache servers. 1c) Improve documentation and web site to lower the barrier for new users Work in progress, docs are now available for the enhancer, entity hub, content hub, cms adapter and reasoners components, and for multi-language support. 2) How has the community developed since the last report? No new committers, some new users have shown up on the mailing list. Ali Anil Sinaci provided a number of patches which cover all current functionalities of Contenthub. Stanbol was presented at various events: Nuxeo Wold, ApacheCon, "Smart Content = Smart Business" workshop at the J. Boye (http://jboye.com/conferences/aarhus11/) conference in Aarhus, Denmark. 3) How has the project developed since the last report. * Integration with the Linked Media Framework (http://code.google.com/p/kiwi/) is in progress. * Integration of the Semantic Search capabilities with the Stanbol ContentHub. * New EnhancementEngine for extracting Keywords from Controlled vocabularies. * Improved multi language support. * Bidirectional mapping feature between JCR/CMIS content repositories and RDF data. * Implementation of long term operations for reasoners is in progress.
Stanbol is a modular software stack and reusable set of components for semantic content management. Entered incubation on 2010-11-15. There are no issues that require the Incubator PMC or ASF Board attention at this time. 1) Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation. 1a) Make a first release (depends on a first release of Apache Clerezza to eliminate SNAPSHOT dependencies) No concrete progress here. 1b) Create demos showing the power of Stanbol to grow the community Demo server at http://dev.iks-project.eu, should be moved to Apache servers. 1c) Improve documentation and web site to lower the barrier for new users Work in progress, docs are now available for the enhancer, entity hub, content hub, cms adapter and reasoners components, and for multi-language support. 2) How has the community developed since the last report? No new committers, some new users have shown up on the mailing list. Ali Anil Sinaci provided a number of patches which cover all current functionalities of Contenthub. Stanbol was presented at various events: Nuxeo Wold, ApacheCon, "Smart Content = Smart Business" workshop at the [J. Boye](http://jboye.com/conferences/aarhus11/) conference in Aarhus, Denmark. 3) How has the project developed since the last report. * Integration with the Linked Media Framework (http://code.google.com/p/kiwi/) is in progress. * Integration of the Semantic Search capabilities with the Stanbol ContentHub. * New EnhancementEngine for extracting Keywords from Controlled vocabularies. * Improved multi language support. * Bidirectional mapping feature between JCR/CMIS content repositories and RDF data. * Implementation of long term operations for reasoners is in progress.
Stanbol is a modular software stack and reusable set of components for semantic content management. Entered incubation on 2010-11-15. 1. A list of the three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation. - make a first release (depends on a first release of Apache Clerezza to eliminate SNAPSHOT dependencies) - create demos showing the power of Stanbol to grow the community - improve documentation and web site to lower the barrier for new users 2. Any issues that the Incubator PMC or ASF Board might wish/need to be aware of - none 3. How has the community developed since the last report - Florent Andre was elected as a new committer - some new users showed up on the mailing list - Potentially new users from the CMS industry were attracted in a Stanbol hands-on session during a CMS community workshop organized by the IKS project in Paris (http://www.iks-project.eu/news-and-events/events/mycms-and-web-data-iks-com munity-workshop) 4. How has the project developed since the last report. - Code preparations for first release (solved incompatible license issues, license headers, release profile, etc.) - Added new component "FactStore" - Integration tests added to EntityHub - CMIS module added to CMS Adapter
Stanbol is a modular software stack and reusable set of components for semantic content management. Entered incubation on 2010-11-15. Community development: - some new users started playing with Stanbol and asking for guidance on the mailing lists Project activities: - lots of package/module refactoring - added a benchmark tool for Enhancer - KReS module build and tests fixed - setup continuous integration with Jenkins - added JCR module of CMS Adapter Next steps: - Make a first release, possibly omitting modules with ASF-incompatible dependencies - Grow the community
Stanbol is a modular software stack and reusable set of components for semantic content management. Entered incubation on 2010-11-15. Community development: - Five new committers mentioned in the previous report elected, accounts requested. Project activities: - Java packages renamed org.apache.stanbol for enhancer and entityhub modules - Work on removing LGPL dependencies in the Kres module ongoing - Integration tests added to enhancer module via reusable testing tool Next steps: - Finish package renaming - Finish LGPL dependencies cleanup - Setup Hudson (Jenkins?) continuous integration - Make a first release, possibly omitting modules with ASF-incompatible dependencies - Grow the community
Stanbol is a modular software stack and reusable set of components for semantic content management. Stanbol just entered incubation, on 2010-11-15. Community development: - a group of five individuals were identified who had made substantial contributions to Stanbol, yet were omitted from the original proposal. The PPMC decided that, given that they intended to continue contributing, they would vote them in as committers. Main activities: - imported code cleaning - OpenCalais FISE engine added Next steps: - Refactor package naming - Check build issues - Make a first release - Make the community grow
Stanbol is a modular software stack and reusable set of components for semantic content management. Stanbol just entered incubation, on 2010-11-15. Mailing lists, SVN and JIRA are ready, most user accounts created, pre-existing code from the IKS project has been imported under a code grant. The Stanbol community has been invited to participate in a free workshop organized by the IKS project (*). It is a good opportunity to establish best practices for collaboration and communication between IKS (an EU-funded research project in which most current Stanbol committers are involved, http://iks-project.eu/) and the Stanbol podling. Branding requirements checked, see https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/STANBOL-14 Next steps: * Cleanup dependencies and code as per ASF requirements * Make an initial release * Start establishing and growing the community (*) Workshop URL: http://wiki.iks-project.eu/index.php/Workshops/EAworkshopAmsterdam