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 nicholas....@surroundaustrlai.com <mailto:nicholas....@surroundaustrlai.com> ashleysom...@gmail.com <mailto:ashleysom...@gmail.com> ar...@informatik.uni-leipzig.de <mailto:ar...@informatik.uni-leipzig.de> -- 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 rdflib-dev+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/rdflib-dev/E5211138-4928-47F4-836D-603B06999983%40surroundaustralia.com.
