Re: git.gnome.org changes and new doap file requirements

[scl <scl gplus gmail com>]

Hi,

thank you for your efforts.
I just tried to update some DOAP files (and thought it's a quick job),
but came across some questions:

On  3.8.2014 at 1:33 AM Olav Vitters wrote:
>   [ Please reply to desktop-devel-list gnome org ]
>
> André Klapper suggested we should make more use of the doap files. As a
> result of that together with GUADEC, the following changes have been
> made on git.gnome.org:
>
> 1. New categories: Core, Core Apps, Apps

Can you please point out how they are defined? Is software that was in
'Other' or 'Productivity tools' before an App or a Core App or nothing 
of them now?

> 2. "Owner" field shows programming language

What exactly is meant by 'Owner'? The development team of a project?
How does that relate to a programming language? To me they are different
shoes.
The RDF spec has no field 'Owner', but only 'Programming language'.

How shall we deal with markup languages? From a technical point of view
they are not programming languages because they miss things like
alternations, loops and sequences.
From the point that a DOAP file should serve us value it would be
a good idea to have them added anyway to find contributors familiar
with XML, HTML etc.

> For the full details behind these DOAP files, see:
> https://wiki.gnome.org/Git/FAQ#How_do_I_add_a_description_to_the_git_web_view.3F__What_is_this_.22blah.doap.22.3F

The links 'DOAP files' and 'DOAP web page' are dead, but I found this
instead:  https://github.com/edumbill/doap/

We have an old OMF file from 2004 with a subset of the DOAP information
lying around in one of our projects. I guess OMF is superseded by DOAP
now, right?

Thank you in advance,

Sven