Great to see new people continuing with the work here. Let us know how the old folks can help with something.
Cheers, On Thu, Mar 12, 2020, 17:19 Nicholas Car <[email protected]> wrote: > Dear rdflib devs, > > > New maintainers > ---------------------- > Ashley Sommer (@ashleysommer), Natanael Arndt (@white-gecko) and I > (@nicholascar) have just taken over as rdflib repository maintainers from > Gunnar & Jörn. > > Thank you to Gunnar & Jörn for vey many years of maintaining this very > important project! I won’t have been able to do my last couple of jobs > without you! > > > 5.0.0 & 6.0.0 releases > ----------------------------- > We are aiming to release the current master branch of rdflib as a 5.0.0 > release shortly - by the end of March - and then will work towards a larger > 6.0.0 release by about the end of June. > > This is an open call to you all on this list to make yourselves known to > us maintainers if you’re interested in the larger task of working towards > that 6.0.0 release. I’ve already contacted some of the more recently active > developers among you to see if you’re interested and I’ve received good > responses. > > Just to recap: > > 5.0.0 - current master as a release. No more major PRs merged. > > 6.0.0 - a major new release with the following breaking changes planned: > - no support for Python 2 > - no support for <= Python 3.4 > - likely support for RDF*/SPARQL* (if current PRs are completed) > - identifiers for graphs, not objects (if discussion on PR is completed) > - new RDF kernel options, likely available via plugin (see PR 796) > - potential refactoring of codebase and code style updates > > We will announce the releases here as the appear. > > > RDFlib strategy > --------------------- > The new maintainers discussed strategic direction for the RDFlib entire > family of repositories and we’ve preliminarily come up with this goal: > > > To provide, in one place, Python tools for everything do with RDF and > related things > > We’d therefore like to bring other RDF Python repos into the RDFlib > family, and we know repos exist for: > > * reading HDT (RDF binary files) > * parsing OWL Functional Syntax > * OWL modelling in Python > > We will start discussing with those repository creators about bringing > them in. > > We will also likely move OWL functionality form multiple repos into a new > ‘owllib' repository that will build on the current OWL-RL repo but will > include OWL syntax parsers such as Functional and Manchester Syntax. We > might also move some OWL-only functionality out of rdflib into owllib to > keen the core rdflib repo tidy. > > > Your thoughts > ------------------- > If any of the plans here worry you or if you’d like to add more things in, > and if you want to be involved, please let us know either on this mailing > list or directly, we’d love to know you care! > > > Regards, > > Nicholas, Ashley & Natanael > > [email protected] > [email protected] > [email protected] > > -- > http://github.com/RDFLib > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "rdflib-dev" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/rdflib-dev/F9FC0B0D-FB8D-4A60-ADF5-2CBAE3FAF158%40surroundaustralia.com > . > -- http://github.com/RDFLib --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "rdflib-dev" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/rdflib-dev/CAKZ-WGf0Zg-vTMbKnxD6xkoFEvzSviVM7v8yUTaB9MHd-ibmAw%40mail.gmail.com.
