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

[Laura Dragan]

Hi,

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?
I volunteer to maintain the NASO ontology that was started not so long ago.
http://dev.nepomuk.semanticdesktop.org/wiki/NasoOntology

I've already chatted with some people about this, and I will update the 
wiki page with some ideas soon.


Cheers,
Laura

> 
> 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.
> 
> 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=new&status=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.
> 
> curious to learn the itnerna there,
> 
> best
> Leo
>