Re: [rdflib-dev] RDFLib roadmap & governance

2018-04-27 Thread scossu 
Gunnar, Jörn,
The goals you mention seem very important for the project. 

All the code writing & reviewing that I can afford I am spending on a side 
project, but I would be interested in increasing sustainability for RDFLib, 
e.g. identifying other projects that run mission-critical applications and 
depend on RDFLib and trying to establish a collaboration, as well as 
finding ways to make the code more accessible to contribution. 

I would be available for a phone call or teleconference to kick ideas 
around, if you are interested. 

Best,
Stefano

p.s. on a side note—Jörn, speaking of storage back ends, I implemented a 
back end for LMDB which I am quite happy with so far: 
https://github.com/scossu/lakesuperior/blob/master/lakesuperior/store/ldp_rs/lmdb_store.py
 
It is quite embedded in specific features of my project but I thought it 
would be interesting to share (and probably not too hard to make it an 
RDFLib module). 

On Friday, April 27, 2018 at 8:12:52 AM UTC-5, Jörn Hees wrote:
>
> Hi, 
>
> full +1 wrt. next steps and any help is obviously welcome. 
> I'll hopefully find some time to work on integration of HDT as storage 
> backend soon, which might be a good chance to also finally integrate a 
> sink. 
> But before doing that i'll probably focus on releasing 5.0.0, which i had 
> pushed away to free some time. 
>
> Best, 
> Jörn 
>
> > On 27 Apr 2018, at 12:07, Gunnar Aastrand Grimnes  > wrote: 
> > 
> > Hi Stefano, 
> > 
> > RDFLib has had a series of volunteer developers since 2002 (!) 
> > 
> > The last few years it's mainly been myself and Jörn Hees who make 
> > releases, but we've both had increasingly little time. (Jörn finishing 
> > his PhD, me working on things not related to RDF). 
> > 
> > Roadmap is a big word, and I don't think I would say we have anything 
> > like it :), but if I had some time I would try get the following done: 
> > 
> > * a real interface for triple sinks and support for streaming parsers: 
> > https://github.com/RDFLib/rdflib/pull/411 
> > * move a bunch of things out of rdflib-core - like microdata/rdfa 
> > parsers (already weirdly copied in their own repos) 
> > * remove SPARQLWrapper dependency: 
> https://github.com/RDFLib/rdflib/pull/744 
> > 
> > It's not very likely to happen very soon from my side though. 
> > 
> > Jörn should chime in himself, but I think we'd both be happy to have 
> > someone else come in and take more responsibility - if you want to 
> > help code-review PRs, discuss future changes, make releases etc. I 
> > would only be glad to see RDFLib be more alive! 
> > 
> > - Gunnar 
> > 
> > 
> > On 27 April 2018 at 04:55, Stefano Cossu  
> wrote: 
> >> I am not sure if there is a "non-dev" group for RDFLib but I might as 
> well 
> >> start asking here. 
> >> 
> >> I find RDFLib to be an amazing project and the only RDF libray for 
> Python 
> >> (if we don't count the Redland Python bindings). Lately I have been 
> >> wondering how the roadmap is laid out (I understand 5.0.0 is the next 
> >> release and a major overhaul) and if there is  some governance around 
> the 
> >> project. Is it completely volunteer-based or is there an institutional 
> >> commitment? Is there a group that works on the roadmap and high-level 
> goals? 
> >> Is there any maintenance for 4.x planned once 5.x is out? 
> >> 
> >> This would be helpful for me to understand how the project is doing and 
> what 
> >> to expect from it. As RDFLib is a fundamental library for handling an 
> >> increasingly popular data format with one of the most popular 
> programming 
> >> languages, I would love to see more PRs merged, more issues closed, 
> more 
> >> questions answered, more test coverage, more exhaustive documentation, 
> more 
> >> regular commits; in short, a mature project. I may not have the 
> bandwidth to 
> >> commit to the code directly but I may be able to volunteer some of my 
> spare 
> >> time for strategic planning. 
> >> 
> >> Thanks for your great efforts so far and for any information you may 
> want to 
> >> share. 
> >> 
> >> Stefano 
> >> 
> >> 
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Re: [rdflib-dev] RDFLib roadmap & governance

2018-04-27 Thread Jörn Hees 
Hi,

full +1 wrt. next steps and any help is obviously welcome.
I'll hopefully find some time to work on integration of HDT as storage backend 
soon, which might be a good chance to also finally integrate a sink.
But before doing that i'll probably focus on releasing 5.0.0, which i had 
pushed away to free some time.

Best,
Jörn

> On 27 Apr 2018, at 12:07, Gunnar Aastrand Grimnes  wrote:
> 
> Hi Stefano,
> 
> RDFLib has had a series of volunteer developers since 2002 (!)
> 
> The last few years it's mainly been myself and Jörn Hees who make
> releases, but we've both had increasingly little time. (Jörn finishing
> his PhD, me working on things not related to RDF).
> 
> Roadmap is a big word, and I don't think I would say we have anything
> like it :), but if I had some time I would try get the following done:
> 
> * a real interface for triple sinks and support for streaming parsers:
> https://github.com/RDFLib/rdflib/pull/411
> * move a bunch of things out of rdflib-core - like microdata/rdfa
> parsers (already weirdly copied in their own repos)
> * remove SPARQLWrapper dependency: https://github.com/RDFLib/rdflib/pull/744
> 
> It's not very likely to happen very soon from my side though.
> 
> Jörn should chime in himself, but I think we'd both be happy to have
> someone else come in and take more responsibility - if you want to
> help code-review PRs, discuss future changes, make releases etc. I
> would only be glad to see RDFLib be more alive!
> 
> - Gunnar
> 
> 
> On 27 April 2018 at 04:55, Stefano Cossu  wrote:
>> I am not sure if there is a "non-dev" group for RDFLib but I might as well
>> start asking here.
>> 
>> I find RDFLib to be an amazing project and the only RDF libray for Python
>> (if we don't count the Redland Python bindings). Lately I have been
>> wondering how the roadmap is laid out (I understand 5.0.0 is the next
>> release and a major overhaul) and if there is  some governance around the
>> project. Is it completely volunteer-based or is there an institutional
>> commitment? Is there a group that works on the roadmap and high-level goals?
>> Is there any maintenance for 4.x planned once 5.x is out?
>> 
>> This would be helpful for me to understand how the project is doing and what
>> to expect from it. As RDFLib is a fundamental library for handling an
>> increasingly popular data format with one of the most popular programming
>> languages, I would love to see more PRs merged, more issues closed, more
>> questions answered, more test coverage, more exhaustive documentation, more
>> regular commits; in short, a mature project. I may not have the bandwidth to
>> commit to the code directly but I may be able to volunteer some of my spare
>> time for strategic planning.
>> 
>> Thanks for your great efforts so far and for any information you may want to
>> share.
>> 
>> Stefano
>> 
>> 
>> --
>> Stefano Cossu
>> Director of Application Services, Collections
>> 
>> The Art Institute of Chicago
>> 116 S. Michigan Ave.
>> Chicago, IL 60603
>> 312-499-4026
>> 
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