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

[Leo Sauermann]

more volunteers go maintain stuff, excellent,
I moved the list to sourceforge, see below,
then you can all maintain it.

It was Mikkel Kamstrup Erlandsen who said at the right time 09.06.2009 
20:44 the following words:
> 2009/6/9 Urho Konttori <urho.konttori at nokia.com>:
>   
>> ext Evgeny Egorochkin wrote:
>>     
>>> On 9 июня 2009 04:52:06 Antoni Mylka wrote:
>>>
>>>       
>>>> Hello Xesamies (Xesams, Xesamians, is there an accepted form? ),
>>>>
>>>>         
>>> Xesamies sounds good :)
>>>
>>>
>>>       
>>>> I volunteer for:
>>>>  - moving the current ontology source files to whatever repository is
>>>>    chosen, both the trunk and the 8 'revisions' already 'released'
>>>>  - dropping the legacy constraint that the ontologies must be editable
>>>>    in Protege, which didn't work anyway, and make the protege->NRL
>>>>    conversion step unnecessary
>>>>  - moving the doc generator to whatever repository is chosen
>>>>  - setting up the "build" so that with a single call to 'ant' the
>>>>    documentation will be regenerated and all example files will be
>>>>    validated against the current version of the ontology
>>>>  - spearheading the effort to get some export of the trac history from
>>>>    the nepomuk trac and importing it to whatever issue tracker is chosen
>>>>    (I personally favour trac, dunno how difficult it would be to
>>>>    import trac issues to bugzilla - all kinds of comments welcome).
>>>>  - maintaining the 'build' code infrastructure
>>>>  - helping all other ontology maintainers as far as I can
>>>>  - maintaining all the ontology parts for which no separate maintainer
>>>>    steps up. I've been reading through the thread and it seems there
>>>>    were two people willing to take on the maintenance duties.
>>>>    NRL -
>>>>    NAO -
>>>>    NIE -
>>>>    NFO - Ivan Frade
>>>>    NMO - Roberto Guido
>>>>    NCO -
>>>>    NCAL -
>>>>    NEXIF -
>>>>    NID3 -
>>>>
>>>> Dunno if the original authors of NRL (as stated at [7]) will want to get
>>>> involved with it now. It seems that the number of volunteers is far from
>>>> astonishing ATM :)
>>>>
>>>>         
>>> I can afford to be a backup maintainer for all this. As long as people are
>>> willing to write code, I'll find the time to tell them what to do^H^H^H^H^H
>>> maintain ontologies :)
>>>
>>> This can work for awhile. More visibility and synergetic effects will fix this
>>> over time.
>>>       
>> I can be maintainer of NMM once we agree to include that in the official
>> ontologies (and drop the NID3 and possibly even NEXIF while doing so).
>> Also, by replacing the nid3, and nexif, we have 1 less ontology to get a
>> maintainer for ;).
>>
>> Pros:
>> I designed that together with Evgeny Egorochkin and Mikael Ottela.
>> NMM is still not completely sanity tested and may still need quite a few
>> changes, so I would be a good person to do that.
>>
>> Cons:
>> Quite busy until next autumn.
>>     
>
> I must admit that it feels a bit like stealing to offer maintainership
> of something I didn't develop myself, but here goes anyway :-)
>
> I could probably take NAO - or to be honest I have great interest in
> the particular subject of annotations and I believe that the NAO could
> be so much more powerful. As a side note I must also admit that I've
> found that it doesn't meet my needs for how we plan to use Gnome
> Zeitgeist. More or that at a later time...
>
> I don't have a lot of time, but NAO is small (and I believe it should
> stay that way) so it might work out.
>   
ok, put you on the list...

as we kind-of-agreed to move to sourceforge, I now made a copy of this 
list here:
http://sourceforge.net/apps/trac/oscaf/wiki/OntologyMaintenance

which was before there:
http://dev.nepomuk.semanticdesktop.org/wiki/OntologyMaintenance

best
Leo


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