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

Mikkel Kamstrup Erlandsen mikkel.kamstrup at gmail.com
Wed Jun 10 22:29:16 PDT 2009


2009/6/11 Evgeny Egorochkin <phreedom.stdin at gmail.com>:
> On 11 июня 2009 08:19:09 Mikkel Kamstrup Erlandsen wrote:
>> 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.
>
> Actually it's too easy to not move it once in a while :)
> Would be cool to also have integration with the issue tracker though.

Does SF have this?


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Cheers,
Mikkel


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