Re: RDF's relative IRI resolution is ambiguous

* William Waites <wwaites@tardis.ed.ac.uk> [2015-09-04 12:44+0100]
> I agree that long term curation and maintenance of test suites is a
> good idea. I wonder if it is wise to rely in the long term on Github
> -- who knows how long it will live, it's a private company, etc. It
> might be better for the source code repositories to live at the W3C.

I completely agree that this is a valid concearn. Some projects have
left sourceforge because of misleading adds. I expect to:

1 Publish future specs with a tests/implementations reports link to
  w3.org.

2 Proxy that link a github.io site (or whatever's in favor at the
  time) with the expectation that W3 will change that redirect if
  that sites policies and interface become a problem, or some new
  site offers better services.

This means we can be held a little bit hostage by inertia and
dependency on services, but at least we have control over what happens
when someone clicks on the tests or implementation report links in
Recommendations. This still leaves the question of who has write keys
to that repo.

Some folks have been discussing giving responsibility to the (chair of
the) CG. We could reduce the overhead of establishing consensus if we
elect one or two folks as editors (Gregg Kellogg already produces the
implementation reporets so he's a natural choice) and ask that they
not channge tests before hearing back that two implementors agree and
no one has objected. If folks object, we dream up more process.


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