2020 04 28 6.0.0 Planning Meeting

Agenda

1. Introductions
   • who you are and a sentence on your RDFlib interests
     • Jerven Bolleman. Interest in having a great RDF story for python to allow things like SpOdgi to exist and be useful
     • Nicholas Car. New co-maintainer, also interested in A to Z in Python for RDF so orgs can use one language/system for everything
2. Potential Targets for 6.0.0
   • Dropping Python 2 & 3.4
     • Maintainers wish to drop
     • Issue poll indicates they should be dropped
   • Targets from existing PRs
     • Move Store API to work with identifiers, not graphs (PRs 409, 958 & Issue 845)
     • Namespace object inheritance (PR 597
   • Targets discussed in previous meeting
     • RDF*/SPARQL* support (Issue 995)
   • Maintainers favourites
     • HDT Support (Issue 894)
     • plugin discovery causes very bad startup time (Issue 952)
     • Blank Node collisions (Issues 892, 980, 123)
     • RDFlib Exception Hierarchy (Issue 515)
     • Make FunOwl available as a plugin (Issue 1017)
   • Previous maintainers favourites
     • Streaming parsers: (Issue 283, PR 411)
     • Creating a stable core, with many satellite plugins (Issue 391)
   • Others raised in this meeting
     • ...
     • ...
3. Likely timelines for 6.0.0
   • initially proposed for end of June, 2020
   • to be based on the number of targets and peoples' available efforts
4. Future meeting schedule
   • propose maintainers meet monthly, following last meet
   • suggestions for any other meetings
5. Next meeting
   • @nicholascar: propose this be the Maintainers Meeting, approx first Thursday of each month (so 7th of May)
     • don't need to be locked in, just any suggestions!

Minutes

Attendees

@nicholascar
@ashleysommer
@rob-metalinkage
Marc-Antoine
Harold Natanael Olaf Sharzad Jerven

Items

1. Introductions By: Nicholas, Ashley, Harold, Boris, Natanael, Shahrzad, Rob, Olaf, Jerven, Marc-Antoine, Peter

2. Potential Targets for 6.0.0

   • Dropping Python 2 & 3.4 (maintainers)
   • Move Store API to work with identifiers (Boris, GreatYYX, Nick)
   • Namespace object inheritance (Harold, Nick)
   • RDF*/SPARQL* support (Jerven, Olaf, Sharzad, MArc-Antoine, maintainers)
   • HDT Support (Thomas)
   • plugin discovery causes very bad startup time (?)
   • Blank Node collisions (Natanael)
   • RDFlib Exception Hierarchy (?)
   • Make FunOwl available as a plugin (Harold)