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

Mikkel Kamstrup Erlandsen mikkel.kamstrup at gmail.com
Wed Jun 10 22:19:09 PDT 2009


2009/6/10 Mikkel Kamstrup Erlandsen <mikkel.kamstrup at gmail.com>:
> 2009/6/10 Sebastian Trüg <strueg at mandriva.com>:
>> On Tuesday 09 June 2009 20:59:28 Mikkel Kamstrup Erlandsen wrote:
>>> As I was the one to take the "fight" with us getting Xesam up on
>>> feedesktop.org back in the days, I should probably say something about
>>> this...
>>>
>>> I don't think we should use the FDO infrastructure because of three
>>> things: 1) High barrier to entry for non-experts, 2) Extremely slow
>>> response time from sysadmins, 3) Very little flexibility.
>>>
>>> So we need a system that is the opposite of these three points. I
>>> think a combination of SF + an external we-own-it shell+web server is
>>> what we need.
>>>
>>> So what I propose:
>>>
>>> SF:
>>>   svn
>>>   trac
>>>
>>> Own server (under xesam.org or oscaf.org, I am indifferent where we mount
>>> it): Moin wiki
>>>   SSH shell server
>>>   Web server with public compiled ontologies (and possibly other stuff)
>>>
>>> Then there is the mailing list... I really don't care much here.
>>
>> This sounds perfect to me. I would even suggest to use www.semanticdesktop.org
>> instead of xesam.org since that is the namespace of the ontologies anyway.
>> + the tools are already in place there.
>
> Sounds sane - who owns semanticdesktop.org? Whois says Stefan Decker
> of deri.org...
>
> Is it a hosting solution where we can create shell accounts for the
> involved maintainers?

For those of you not following xdg at freedesktop.org - Aaron Seigo is
trying to rally people to use gitorious.org for spec hosting... Maybe
we should proactive and support his idea?

Aaron says:
"...today i moved the embryonic git repository for xdg specifications to
gitorious.org:

       http://gitorious.org/xdg-specs/

it is owned by a team called "xdg-specs"

       http://gitorious.org/+xdg-specs
"

A git repo is easy to move if we ever want that.

-- 
Cheers,
Mikkel


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