Re: RDF's relative IRI resolution is ambiguous

* Gregg Kellogg <gregg@greggkellogg.net> [2015-09-05 11:38-0700]
> > On Sep 5, 2015, at 11:18 AM, Andy Seaborne <andy@apache.org> wrote:
> > 
> > On 04/09/15 12:44, William Waites wrote:
> >> 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.
> >> 
> >> -w
> >> 
> >> --
> >> William Waites <wwaites@tardis.ed.ac.uk>  |  School of Informatics
> >>    http://tardis.ed.ac.uk/~wwaites/       | University of Edinburgh
> >>          https://hubs.net.uk/             |      HUBS AS60241
> >> 
> >> The University of Edinburgh is a charitable body, registered in
> >> Scotland, with registration number SC005336.
> >> 
> >> 
> > 
> > [Tried the CG mail list but got "550 Unrouteable address”]
> 
> I was able to send a message to the list (cc’d again on this message). Next week we can drum up more support with targeted messages to RDF and SPARQL lists and make a plan.
> 
> > Valid concern.
> > 
> > We can start now on github and make sure we have a plan.
> 
> Eric suggested this, where we use URLs on w3.org (presumably redirects from the existing test suite locations) and redirect to GitHub. That gives us control if GitHub goes away, or a better alternative comes. Obviously, we’ll need some support from W3C staff for this to work. We do this now for the CSV on the Web Test suite (http://www.w3.org/2013/csvw/tests/), and it works pretty well.
> 
> One probably with putting tests on GitHub is the inability to set HTTP headers; this is used by the JSON-LD tests, but those are hosted on a different server, with push-receive updates from GitHub. If someone were able to host such a service for tests at large, this might be another intermediate.

This is exactly what I was worried about. It sucks not controlling /etc/apache2/magic . I figured that this meant that GET's from github wouldn't give nice media types like text/turtle. (I'm hoping that mod_proxy will allow me to override the media type.) Any idea if we're in for more pain than that?


> > A simple one would be to have CG reports which are releases of github
> > work (or even just a dated copy).
> 
> Yes, i think using gh-pages for the released version of test suites, with branches for things which are in development, allows for reasonable curation. A release can then coincide with a report.
> 
> Gregg
> 
> >  Andy
> > 
> > 
> 
> 

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