Re: [libgnomecanvasmm] [libgnomecanvas.doap] Fixed invalid multiple objects on RDF properties

[Shaun McCance <shaunm gnome org>]

On Fri, 2010-04-16 at 21:36 +0200, Olav Vitters wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 16, 2010 at 02:01:21PM +0000, Shaun McCance wrote:
> > -      <foaf:mbox rdf:resource="daniel kitta googlemail com" />
> > +      <foaf:mbox rdf:resource="mailto:daniel kitta googlemail com" />
> 
> If you want to improve the doap file check, see gitadmin-bin module.
> Better check is really welcome.

Actually, the particular bit you quoted is caught by our DOAP file
check. I know this because git.gnome.org rejected my commit when I
was trying to fix the other problem. This problem must have been in
this file from before validate-doap checked for it.

The problem I'm seeing and fixing is that people are putting multiple
foaf:Person objects inside a single maintainer property. That's not
valid RDF.

Owen mentioned on d-d-l a way this could be checked:

http://mail.gnome.org/archives/desktop-devel-list/2010-April/msg00121.html

Of course, we won't get a full RDF validity check without using a real
RDF library. (Blip uses Redland.) But this seems like a common enough
problem to have a special-case check for it.

I'm not quite sure how to run validate-doap on my machine, and I'm
wary of committing changes that I can't test. Any pointers?

--
Shaun