gist Development Team Meeting 2021.12.16

Attending

• Borislav Iordanov
• Dave McComb
• Dylan Abney
• Jamie Gulden
• Jess Singer
• Marc Feickert
• Michael Uschold
• Peter Winstanley
• Phil Blackwood
• Rebecca Younes

Agenda and Notes

• Review action items from previous meetings

• Issue #215: Country and CountryGovernment:

  • Dan to draft OWL file with proposed changes and attach to issue. DONE
  • Michael to compose document summarizing the issues, points of agreement, points of disagreements, and arguments for and against each of the latter. Will review with Rebecca before attaching to the issue. DONE
  • Rebecca to notify Ontologists group that we will discuss the issue one more time at next meeting but will not review the substance of the proposal. Those not familiar with the model should review the attached documents, and if they cannot attend the next meeting should add their comments to the issue. DONE

• Rebecca to take a pass at updating the release documentation, then run it by Borislav Iordanov for review. NOT DONE.

• Discussion topics

  • Next release
    • 10.1.0 or 11.0.0?
      • Mark brought up the issue about frequent releases.
      • Rebecca: We have infrastructure in place to distinguish major and minor releases and provide migration scripts for major releases.
      • Michael: Release on an as-needed basis?
      • Rebecca: Better to have a target as a motivator - which we don't need to stick to religiously. We've said roughly once per month, but only if we have enough to release. Users also like to see that a project is under active development before adoption.
      • Peter: Can we issue patch releases in a separate development stream?
      • Rebecca: Yes, we can do so by creating a branch off the release tag, but in practice we have never used this. Software bugs can break things in a way that errors in an ontology typically don't.
      • Dave: Pace around major releases: If we have something legitimately better, even if not backward compatible, we should get it out as quickly as we can. Users can always stay on older release if desired.
      • Dave: Four things queued up:
        • Time
        • Countries
        • GeoSPARQL
        • Units and magnitudes
      • 11.0.0 - Time and countries - next release - target January 2022
      • 12.0.0 - GeoSPARQL and units/magnitudes
      • Smaller releases in between as desired

• Review issues

  • Review project board.
  • Open pull requests
  • Issues slated for next release but unassigned
  • Issues that are in review and assigned for further investigation
  • Issues that have been triaged but are still in group review (no assignee)
  • Un-triaged issues in reverse chronological order

Issues Reviewed

• Issue #523: Navigational parent/child
• Issue #388: Year precision
• Issue #176: Planned events

Pull Requests Reviewed

None.

New Action Items

None.

Next Meeting

Thursday, Jan 13, 2022 9:00am MT