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

[Philip Van Hoof]

On Fri, 2009-06-05 at 13:55 +0200, Leo Sauermann wrote:
> ok, i have written all this on the OntologyMaintenance wiki page,
> and added your suggestion of tracking to my existing suggestions,
> 
> if you have time, also read and comment on the other stuff written
> here already,
> I noted some ideas about maintenance there...
> http://dev.nepomuk.semanticdesktop.org/wiki/OntologyMaintenance
> 
> kind regards, nice weekend
> /me now thinking about last-minute panic before my phd defence,

Good luck!

> Leo
> 
> 
> It was Ivan Frade who said at the right time 05.06.2009 12:51 the
> following words: 
> > Hi all,
> > 
> > Count me in for the maintenance of the ontologies. One important
> > point is to move the things fast, so a responsive maintainer is
> > vital (an active guy or more than one maintainer). 
> > 
> > I can act as co-maintainer of NFO (help from original authors
> > welcome). I wouldn't take more ontologies unless necessary, because
> > i plan to propose/maintain some extensions we have here on the
> > queue.
> > 
> > I would like to discuss NID3 and NEXIF (and probably NCAL).
> > 
> > About tracking systems, i feel more confortable with bugzilla, and
> > allows pretty complex queries (if custom reports are needed). We
> > have a bugzilla already in freedesktop, and we can copy the
> > currently open tickets there by hand; we can keep the old bugzilla
> > for reference, and indicate clearly that it is closed and all the
> > new bugs should be reported in the new bugzilla.
> > 
> > So the tools are:
> > 
> > IRC: #xesam in freenode
> > Mailing list: this one (xesam at lists.freedesktop.org)
> > Bugtracking: bugzilla in freenode (* just proposed *)
> > 
> > Publishing of the drafts:
> > The ontologies and documentation should be in the freedesktop git
> > repository (if it exists) or XESAM web server. And i wonder how to
> > do the refreshing of the web pages. Any idea about this? Who is the
> > web master in FDO? Can we use the original nepomuk scripts for that?
> > is it java? python? bash? can we run then in the freedesktop server?
> > what about using the XESAM server for this? Mikkel, ping?
> > 
> > Regards,
> > 
> > Ivan
> > 
> > 
> > On Fri, Jun 5, 2009 at 11:49 AM, Philip Van Hoof <spam at pvanhoof.be>
> > wrote:
> >         On Thu, 2009-06-04 at 20:14 +0200, Roberto Guido wrote:
> >         > On Thu, 2009-06-04 at 18:18 +0200, Leo Sauermann wrote:
> >         > > 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.
> >         > >
> >         > Here I am: after so many criticism, I'm curious to follow
> >         the game as
> >         > near as possible. I candidate myself for NMO.
> >         
> >         
> >         Note that NMO will be among the most difficult to maintain
> >         as me and
> >         Evgeny Egorochkin have already made quite a bit of changes
> >         to it, that
> >         will somehow have to be upstreamed.
> >         
> >         You can find a TTL of the NMO as how we'll need it here:
> >         
> >         http://git.gnome.org/cgit/tracker/tree/data/ontologies/34-nmo.ontology
> >         
> >         > Pro:
> >         > - enough time to follow evolution of discussions
> >         > - supported by an italian company involved in semantic
> >         free software
> >         > development (and perhaps next OSCAF member ;-) )
> >         >
> >         > Cons:
> >         > - little experience in maintainance of large projects, so
> >         a mentor would
> >         > be appreciated at least in the beginning
> >         
> >         
> >         I'm sure Evgeny Egorochkin will help you with that, wont you
> >         Phreedom?
> >         
> >         > Waiting for comments.
> >         >
> >         > > Please give me an account and point me to the "welcome
> >         to freedesktop"
> >         > > page explaining how things work
> >         > >
> >         > http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/AccountRequests
> >         >
> >         > I also would need an account, but I remember someone in
> >         this list
> >         > already mentioned some action in Freedesktop to obtain
> >         resources about
> >         > ontologies development hosting: any news?
> >         
> >         --
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> >         Philip Van Hoof, freelance software developer
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