[Xesam] [nepomuk-kde] oscaf/xesam ontology merge: who is going to maintain/edit what?

[Evgeny Egorochkin]

On 6 июня 2009 19:18:37 Sebastian Faubel wrote:
> Herewith I'd like to volunteer to assist in maintaining the NFO. Over
> the last three years I have been working on a project that focuses on
> efficient attribute based file management for storage abstraction in
> Semantic Desktops. The results of this project will be published in
> October this year and I'd like to propose the developed Ontology for
> integration into NEPOMUK.

This is great news. Your input is much appreciated.

> On Fri, 2009-06-05 at 19:35 +0300, Evgeny Egorochkin wrote:
> > On 4 июня 2009 19:18:22 Leo Sauermann wrote:
> > > ok, now as we have agreed to merge and work together as one big group
> > > of opensource/standardization folks,
> > >
> > > who is going to maintain/edit which ontology?
> > >
> > > using my feeling for ontology management and my open source experience,
> > > I think we could need answers to some questions:
> > >
> > > as with every good project, I would like to know the names of people
> > > who feel responsible to work for the quality. I would like to see an
> > > ontology maintainer/editor for each ontology.
> > > I would see this as role comparable to an open source project
> > > administrator/maintainer, the one guy who reads the commits and kicks
> > > butts when unit tests fail, etc.
> > > Of course, it would be better to see two or three maintainers per
> > > ontology, but lets start with one, or?
> > >
> > > to distribute work, it would be clever to have at least one maintainer
> > > per ontology.
> > > who of the previous posters feels responsible for which ontology?
> > >
> > > This is exactly as we have been doing it for the last three years, no
> > > surprises here so far.
> > >
> > > up to today, this is the page with the maintainers names:
> > > http://dev.nepomuk.semanticdesktop.org/wiki/OntologyMaintenance
> > >
> > > where do you think we should move this page to?
> > > I thought both here:
> > > http://www.oscaf.org/ontologies
> > > and there:
> > > http://apps.sourceforge.net/trac/oscaf/
> > >
> > > I volunteer to continue maintaining PIMO,
> > > but as so many people are interested in NIE/NMO, NCO, NFO, NID3,
> > > I would like to see someone from the Xesam guys to join here with
> > > Antoni. so I step back maintaininng the NIE stack.
> > >
> > > afaik, phreedom could take my place there, that would be good.
> >
> > I'd gladly oversee the NIE stack.
> >
> > Having people with reasonable understanding of semantic tech and NIE and
> > in- depth knowledge of a particular topic join to maintain this specific
> > part is a good idea too. Indeed no surprises here :)
> >
> > > but since now move to xesam/freedesktop, I don't know where this should
> > > be. I feel more home in TRAC, but am happy to learn something new.
> > > Please give me an account and point me to the "welcome to freedesktop"
> > > page explaining how things work, I only know the eclipse.org and sf.net
> > > policies.
> > >
> > > Also I would like to get an account on the project management system we
> > > are going to use and instructions how to file my tickets, I have a
> > > backlog of one ticket for pimo:
> > > https://dev.nepomuk.semanticdesktop.org/query?status=assigned&status=ne
> > >w&st
> > > atus=reopened&group=component&component=ontology-pimo&order=priority
> > >
> > > in the case freedesktop doesn't have anything like this, I would
> > > propose to fall back to http://apps.sourceforge.net/trac/oscaf/, as we
> > > (phreedom, strueg, me) thought we will do back in february, but I would
> > > guess it just takes time to learn how it works on freedesktop.
> >
> > freedesktop is a problem. We've got a bugzilla product at FDO, but we
> > don't really have any control over it. It appears we can't import or
> > export anything.
> >
> > Also FDO is very well known for taking a lot of time to process even
> > trivial requests(such as adding a project). You can forget about
> > infrastructure requests.
> >
> > So if we use FDO, we're stuck with a small set of software some of which
> > is out of sync with reality(CVS) and to which we don't have a full
> > access(such as for import/export).
> >
> > On the other hand we have semanticdesktop.org, sf.net and xesam.org
> >
> > FDO is nice as an idea, but the implementation is far from it.
> >
> > > curious to learn the itnerna there,
> > >
> > > best
> > > Leo
> >
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