Re: Starting on issue 55 and 32

Related to these two, I created https://github.com/w3c/sparql-12/issues/93
to discuss long-running problems with consistently encoding BC dates.

On Mon, May 27, 2019 at 9:34 AM Jerven Bolleman <jerven.bolleman@sib.swiss>
wrote:

> Dear Community,
>
> Welcome and let's get started :) We have a see of ideas and proposals to
> work with, thanks to everyone who made an issue!
>
> Now the ideas need to turn into reality, which means turn them into a
> number of mini specs that are implementable (i.e. have a good
> covering test suite, decent corner case coverage and reasonably formal).
>
> As a learning exercise I would like to start with issue
> https://github.com/w3c/sparql-12/issues/55
> and
> https://github.com/w3c/sparql-12/issues/32
>
> These are extending the number of inbuilt functions to match the XPath
> 3.1 specifications.
>
> What I want to do is have both a spec and a test suite for implementers.
> This is a training issue for us to discover how we can work together and
> encourage implementations that our wider community can build upon.
>
> For those who are interested in following along I will be working
> on it this Wednesday 1st of May 12:00 UTC time. I registered a gitter.im
> chat room on which anyone interested can join
> https://gitter.im/sparql-12/community#
>
> Of course this is not the only issue of interest and I encourage
> everyone to start on helping specifying their topic of interest.
>
> Besides specifications, we are very interested in best practices
> regarding SPARQL on the public web. I would like to start
> with using some of the things we have done for sparql.uniprot.org as
> a template (hoping you agree they are best practices ;)
>
>
> Regards,
> Jerven
>
>