- From: Jeremy Carroll <jjc@hpl.hp.com>
- Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2007 11:18:32 +0000
- To: Chimezie Ogbuji <ogbujic@bio.ri.ccf.org>
- CC: Dan Connolly <connolly@w3.org>, public-grddl-wg <public-grddl-wg@w3.org>
Chimezie Ogbuji wrote: > pass on what I had done so far to a webmaster to make sense of. In > particular, the grddl-wg/td directory is a hodge-podge of alot of > content, only a fraction of which has been 'approved' and referenced in > the grddl-tests.html, I have so far. A very familiar problem - I had exactly that problem with the OWL Test Cases - the zip solution was the one I went for. I believe the rationale was as follows: a) at some level the directory structure on the server is an artifact of the server, not the web. From the point of view of the web, we jkust have a collection of test resources with URIs. The fact that they all start with the same prefix is opaque (Web architecture). b) the collection of test resources with URIs starting http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/grddl-wg/td/ is a mess. c) if you want to access that mess, currently you can using the URI http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/grddl-wg/td/ d) we can change http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/grddl-wg/td/ (by editing Overview.html) to hide the mess. e) we can list a coherent set of tests - e.g. the ones for the test document by listing their URIs. ====== There are two routes forward that work for me: 1) the zip route - tried and tested with OWL and RDF 2) create a shiny new test directory, and migrate the approved tests there. I think what Dan said about requiring a WG vote on every test that is moved is both procedurally incorrect, and not a big obstacle. The test editor, and others at WG discretion, are empowered to make editorial changes to the tests. In OWL this was explicit see: http://www.w3.org/TR/owl-test/#change [[ The editors may make editorial changes to approved and proposed tests. This includes: ... Moving tests to conform with document naming conventions. ]] Obviously a log of any such changes to approved tests should be sent to the WG list. The whole of http://www.w3.org/TR/owl-test/#testProcess is a useful an explicit summary of the process for test creating approval and modification. What doesn't work for me is to have a set of tests with every copy of the test document. This is mainly to do with the complexities of relative and absolute URIs, particularly given that some of the test documents are namespace docs, and these should be referenced using absolute URIs. Jeremy
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