- From: Gregg Kellogg <gregg@greggkellogg.net>
- Date: Sat, 5 Sep 2015 11:38:44 -0700
- To: Andy Seaborne <andy@apache.org>
- Cc: RDF Comments <public-rdf-comments@w3.org>, public-rdf-tests@w3.org
> 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. > 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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