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

[Evgeny Egorochkin]

On 11 июня 2009 08:29:16 Mikkel Kamstrup Erlandsen wrote:
> 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?

I was thinking about something like being able to reference patches by their 
hashes or something. So that a ticket resolution could link to the web 
interface showing the patch while still being able to move repositories 
around.

The less convenient approach is to provide a patch hash and people would use a 
git gui to find it, but it's not as friendly to "light" contributors.

So far I didn't manage to find such a functionality in SF. Quite possibly it 
doesn't exist in any of popular trackers :/

-- Evgeny