[Mulgara-dev] Subversion

[Paul Gearon]

Hi Brian,

If you check it in before I do, then I have no problems with this.  :-)

My concerns with Eclipse and Subversion were because I think it might  
do a refactor as an "svn remove" and an "svn add" instead of an "svn  
mv".  I wanted the "mv" command so we wouldn't lose the history  
behind any files.

However, in tagging kowari-1.2 it looks like we don't have a history  
for any of the files in the latest tag anyway.  (Not sure if this was  
intentional or what, but that's how it is).  So at this point it  
doesn't actually matter if there's a remove/add or a mv.

Also, we'll want to do a general clean up of "kowari" strings in the  
code as well.  This is so we can catch the internal URIs which are  
used for special operations.  We also need to pick the the "tucana"  
URIs as well.  We were supposed to convert the tucana URIs for Kowari  
as well, but that doesn't matter now.  This will include test code,  
data files, etc.

Once we're done, the only reference I want to see to "Kowari" is in  
any legal statements we make on copyright (since we have to attribute  
copyright of the original source to the new owner).

As for introductions: of course I can see the list of people who've  
subscribed to the list, but it would be rude for me to "out" them.  I  
recognize a number of the names though.

For anyone who doesn't know me, I was one of the first developers on  
TKS.  Of course, the core of TKS was eventually open-sourced and  
called Kowari.  I worked at Plugged In (which became Tucana) from  
early 2000, until the company was dissolved at the end of 2004.

During my time at Tucana I co-wrote the storage layer for TKS with  
David Makepeace.  I also worked on the query resolution with Simon  
Raboczi.  I then spent about 8 months "fixing bugs" and adding  
features at every layer of the code.  This was frustrating work at  
the time (since I couldn't concentrate on anything for more than a  
week or two), but it gave me a good overview of the whole system.

During 2004 I started working on RDFS and OWL for Kowari, and this  
continued into 2005.  I wrote the rules engine called Krule, which  
can currently process inferences for RDFS.  Krule is also capable of  
OWL-Lite, though the required rule set is not yet published.  I can  
(and have) done OWL processing with Kowari, but it's mostly been in  
external applications.  Hopefully I can have this integrated and  
committed in the near future.

My current job description includes the word "semantics", but I've  
still yet to work out what that means.  However, it means Herzum  
Software lets me use Kowari/Mulgara, and has agreed to let me spend  
some of my working time on the project.  Unfortunately, that time has  
recently been sucked up into learning Mailman/Postfix/Tomcat/Jira/ 
Confluence, but I'm hoping that I'm past most of that now and can get  
back to development.  :-)


Regards,
Paul Gearon

On Jun 2, 2006, at 12:47 PM, Brian Sletten wrote:

> In my experience, Eclipse has excellent support for this kind of  
> migration with Subversion.
>
> If you want some help with this, let me know. If you want me to do  
> it, let me know.
>
> I'll take a look at the Jira site to see what is there and start to  
> get going. Should we do a round of introductions? I don't know  
> everyone who is here.
>
> I need to send you another htpasswd entry since I drew a blank  
> trying to remember it the other night. :)
>
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