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

[Leo Sauermann]

It was Urho Konttori who said at the right time 09.06.2009 10:17 the 
following words:
> I can be maintainer of NMM once we agree to include that in the official 
> ontologies (and drop the NID3 and possibly even NEXIF while doing so). 
> Also, by replacing the nid3, and nexif, we have 1 less ontology to get a 
> maintainer for ;).
>
> Pros:
> I designed that together with Evgeny Egorochkin and Mikael Ottela.
> NMM is still not completely sanity tested and may still need quite a few 
> changes, so I would be a good person to do that.
>
> Cons:
> Quite busy until next autumn.
>   

I oppose to drop NID3 and NEXIF - they are quite sanity tested and good 
because - they just copy ID3 and exif, two accepted industry standards. 
If NMM is not finished and you have no time to improve it, we would lose 
compabiltiy with aperture and the existing code when using NMM.
Once NMM can cover all that NID3 and NEXIF cover and is "sanity 
proofed", we can discuss replacing NID3 and NEXIF, until then, I would 
keep promoting that we maintin NID3 and NEXIF and fix bugs there.
Once both are fine, we can make a decision to drop one and communicate 
it. Note that dropping something (=making someone elses code break which 
was fine before) is usually something hated by everyone in the process 
(=because you force people to invest into something they could have for 
free if the change did not happen), so I would not do this lightheartedly.

but good, we need more ontologies, I wrote you down as maintainer of NMM

best
Leo

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>
> Kind regards,
> Urho
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