Re: SPARQL EXISTS

Thank you for raising your concern!

My 2cents as a newby of W3C processes:

> even the comments on #156 confirm that this matter is not an editorial errata.

Yes, I am not sure anyone disagrees on that. It's why this issue has not been solved by just a pull request on GitHub but Andy made a lot of work to raise this topic to the working group and foster discussions about it. For example, he made a presentation on this topic at TPAC last year and the issue has been at the agenda of multiple meetings.

> which requires public review

I am hardly seeing how to make it more public than issues on GitHub and repeated outreach to SPARQL implementers for feedbacks (a first one got made last year and an other one last week). If you have suggestions to make that better efficiently, I would love to hear them.

> which involves following a technical report from draft to recommendation.

In my mind this technical report would be the SPARQL 1.2 query draft. I believe this is how changes are usually done. Do you see something else?

> changes of this sort are certainly not editorial, but rather on the order of additional features

In my opinion, I have a hard time to see it as an "additional feature": We would not add anything new but clarify something already in the SPARQL spec to properly state how substitution should interact with other SPARQL features instead of letting these intractions unspecified. It's imho more a clarification than a new feature.

> but for which it indicates a different process than the resolution of a github issue.

Yes, this is why we (the SPARQL editors) reached out to the global WG and asked for feedbacks and a decision (see above for details).

> the most it can do is propose a charter for a group which will have participation and time adequate to work on the topic.

Sorry for the bold question: do you plan to commit to setup this WG? Launching a WG is a lot of work and I am not sure the current SPARQL editors have enough time for that. I tend to think doing something is better than nothing and 11 years after SPARQL 1.1 it's maybe time to get something done.

Thomas


Le jeudi 3 octobre 2024 à 17:46, Adrian Gschwend <adrian.gschwend@zazuko.com> a écrit :

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> On 03.10.2024 17:29, James Anderson wrote:
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> > i note your estimation of the quality and relevance ot the
> > intellectual effort which contributed to the community group report.
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> That's not what I said.
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> regards
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