IssueTracker
From FOAF
The issues one this page were originally transcribed from our old bugzilla installation, gathered from the rdfweb-dev list, or posted directly here.
The list (and substantive FOAF updates) have been more or less on hold in recent times, despite a few updates/additions (eg. foaf:openid). As of this May 2008 update, Libby's issues have been re-assigned to danbri, and email addresses updated.
Note that the list archives for rdfweb-dev need fixing. We now use the foaf-dev list.
Since Morten started his issue process experiment in March of 2005, the issues have been divided into the following categories:
* Open: Issues that are open and (somewhat) documented, but need more documentation and/or discussion, heading for Active. * Active: Issues that are currently under supervised discussion, heading for Pending. * Pending: Issues that are ready for an IrcMeeting decision, heading for Resolved. * Resolved: Issued that are resolved issues, including the ones that resulted in coming changes.
For each issue, we record a name, which is a wiki entry of the form BlahBlahIssue, a contact (who should acknowledge this role in mail to the archived rdfweb-dev foaf list), and a brief description - mostly useful when the wiki entry hasn't been created yet.
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[edit] Pending Issues
| Issue | Contact | |
|---|---|---|
| BirthdayIssue | mortenf | What to do: A property or set of properties indicating age, birthday and/or birthdate of a person? |
[edit] Active Issues
| Issue | Contact | |
|---|---|---|
| PersonWeblogRssDocumentationIssue | mortenf | How-to: It's often useful to be able to connect people or their weblogs with RSS feeds. |
TODO: update our wiki syntax here to use MediaWiki tables notation.
[edit] Open Issues
| Issue | Contact | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| OnlineAccountHomepageIssue | leigh@ldodds.com | Add a new property to tie an account to its related homepage | |
| OwnsIssue | danbri@danbri.org | to add or not to add foaf:owns rdfweb-dev email | |
| SpecialPowerIssue | danbri@danbri.org | to add or not to add (maybe in kitchen sink namespace?)rdfweb-dev email | |
| KitchenSinkNamespaceIssue | danbri@danbri.org | new namespace for less serious properties rdfweb-dev email | |
| AccountServiceHomepageIssue | danbri@danbri.org | ||
| DocumentMetadataConventions | not assigned | Julian's suggestion to suggest good practice for document infor like last modified,created, etc rdfweb-dev email | |
| WordnetIssue | danbri@danbri.org | Wordnet namespace RDF is wrong. | |
| SubscribesToIssue | danbri@danbri.org | foaf:subscribesTo suggested | |
| NameVocabIssue | mof-rdf@mfd-consult.dk | firstname/surname/given/family underspecified, inconsistent... | |
| HashSlashIssue | danbri@danbri.org | We lack confirmation that it is OK to deploy class and pr... | |
| ChatVocabIssue | danbri@danbri.org | foaf:chat sub-properties could be better described | |
| MemberVocabIssue | danbri@danbri.org | esigler's question about rdf syntax / foaf:member not having an inverse | |
| XsltDocumentationIssue | danbri@danbri.org | documentation of xslt-conversion deployment technique (danc's homepage, xfn mapping etc) | |
| SchemaTranslationIssue | danbri@danbri.org | would like to solicit translations of core documentation (classes/properties at least) | |
| PreferredContactIssue | danbri@danbri.org | 2004-01-12 proposal by Julian Bond: foaf:preferredContact, to Provide a public contact point where a person is happy to receive unsolicited messages from people who have found their FOAF. (email/phone/IM/etc) | |
| KnowsAgentVocabIssue | jim@jibbering.com or danbri@danbri.org? | (jim) 2004-01-17 foaf:knows widened to encompass agents, or a superProperty instead. | |
| ChatIdSubPropertiesIssue | danbri@danbri.org | foaf:chat sub-properties could be better described | |
| TrustVocabIssue | danbri@danbri.org | PGP key vocabulary not documented or in schema 7 bugs found. | |
| PgpVocabUndocumentedIssue | danbri@danbri.org | PGP key vocabulary not documented or in schema | |
| SubscribesToForListsIssue | danbri@rdwfeb.org | Would be good to express mailing list membership etc using the groups mechanism | |
| MirrorServiceIssue | not assigned | How to say 'I mirror this' e.g. Jim's airports service rdfweb-dev email | |
| LostPropertyIssue | not assigned | being able to tag a person as lost rdfweb-dev email | |
| CurrentPastProjectConnectionsIssue | not assigned | "Further work is needed to specify the connections between this class [foaf:Project] and the FOAF properties foaf:currentProject and foaf:pastProject." see spec and rdfweb-dev email | |
| VersionVocabIssue | not assigned | Version vocab addition for deprecation handling - Danny Ayers email to rdfweb-dev | |
| NickTitleDomainRangeMissingIssue | not assigned | nick and title have no domain and range email to rdfweb-dev | |
| SkypeIdIssue | not assigned | how to use sype ids with foaf Skype ID mail to rdfweb-dev form Julian Bond | |
| CurrentPastProjectRangeIssue | not assigned | tighten up range of current and past project? mailtto rdfweb-dev | |
| KnowsInverseIssue | not assigned | does knows need an inverse? Julian's mail to rdfweb-dev | |
| SchematronSchemasIssues | not assigned | possible edits to the schematron profiles of foaf Julian's email to rdfweb-dev | |
| CommentsOnPeopleIssue | not assigned | saying e.g. Dave is a GUI expert Kartik's mail to rdfweb-dev | |
| OwlClassFoafSpecIssue | danbri@danbri.org | can we add owl:Class as well as rdfs:Class to the foaf spec? email from Benjamin Nowak to rdfweb-dev | |
| UsingTapForIdentificationIssue | danbri@danbri.org | how can we use a TAP id to identify e.g. dead people or famous ones esp for codepiction email to rdfweb-dev | |
| TelAsIfpIssue | not assigned | should phone be an inverse functional property? message from Jim Ley to rdfweb-dev | |
| AuthoredCoauthoredIssue | not assigned | authored coauthored new properties? mail to rdfweb-dev from Earle Martin | |
| MboxSha1SumCaseIssue | danbri@danbri.org | leadin zeros and upper/lowercase rdfweb-dev email | |
| InverseOfThumbnailIssue | mof-rdf@mfd-consult.dk | foaf:thumbnail doesn't have an inverse message from Morten Frederiksen | |
| MissingClassesAndPropertiesIssue | simon.price@bristol.ac.uk | Following present in human-readable spec but missing from the embedded RDF version: OnlineAccount, OnlineChatAccount, gender, OnlineEcommerceAccount, OnlineGamingAccount, member, PersonalProfileDocument, accountName, accountServiceHomepage, holdsAccount, membershipClass, primaryTopic, tipjar. rdfweb-dev email | |
| CommentsIssue | simon.price@bristol.ac.uk | Embedded RDF version of vocab in spec is rendered with <-- --> instead of rdfweb-dev email | |
| OwlImportsIssue | not assigned | FOAF RDFS file imports the OWL and RDFS ontologies; this is not necessary and not recommended | |
| GroupIssue | danbri@danbri.org | We need a consistent way of representing groups | |
| MissingXmlBaseIssue | danbri@danbri.org | FOAF RDFS file contains owl:Ontology header whose URI does not match the file's URL, xml:base addition would correct this. | |
| DocumentIssue | not assigned | foaf:Document is lacking a proper definition | |
| OnlineAccountSubClassIssue | not assigned | Typo: in the schema, the various Online*Account classes are subclass of a wordnet:OnlineAccount rather than foaf:OnlineAccount Ian's summary of problem |
[edit] Resolved Issues
| Issue | Contact | |
|---|---|---|
| PersonalProfileDocumentIssue | danbri@danbri.org | Should be added to spec? useful to identify that this is a particular person's foaf file email to rdfweb-dev - see term definition |
| PrimaryTopicIssue | danbri@danbri.org | "the notion of "the main topic" rather than "a topic" " rdfweb-dev email - see term definition |
| ImageIssue | danbri@danbri.org | foaf:Image is undocumented |
| ChatSubPropertyIssue | danbri@danbri.org | several subproperties of foaf:chat are misdeclared |
| IchatIdRedundantIssue | danbri@danbri.org | foaf:ichatID redundant since ichat uses AIM |
| MboxUnderconstrainedIssue | danbri@danbri.org | foaf:mbox is undersconstrained (no domain, range) This fix is not showing up in the RDF in spec. at [1] --SimonP |
| ImagePartsIssue | DanBri | depicts has domain Image so can't be used for parts of image Masahide's email to rdfweb-dev (resolved with new vocab) |
| SpatialThingIssue | not assigned | Person being a subclass of SpatialThing prevents usage with dead or fictitious people Dan's summary of the property IRC mention by IanDavis - SpatialThing includes abstract spaces such as cubes |
| HomepageDomainIssue | danbri@danbri.org(??) | things other than agents have homepages chumped summary for events, same issue for Pubs, inconsistency with foaf:Project --- RESOLVED with the Galway update to the spec, removing the domain specification |
[edit] Potential Issues?
Other issues that should be written up as BlahBlahIssue entries. If you write up an issue, please try to get danbri or libby to acknowledge it by email in rdfweb-dev, so we can track its status and resolution. If email doesn't get answered (sometimes life gets in the way...), IRC might be a good way of chasing up acknowledgement/status/closure.
Brief note of issue content, name in brackets is person who documented it here.
foaf:Image is not very precise with respect to SVG bitmaps etc (Dan Brickley)
using IM uris (Ian Davis)
other identifying features of people (Stephen Pollei)
documenting foaf/vcard equivalence (Danny Ayers)
nice scutters (Edd Dumbill)
nice scutters (Julian Bond)
how best to describe the location of an image (Morten Frederiksen) -- note that the post refers to dc:spatial, should be dcterms:spatial.
seealsos issues (Libby Miller)
[edit] Raw Materials
[18:42] phenny: danbri: 11 May 22:18Z <earle> tell danbri I notice you seem to be using "foaf:pubkeyAddress", did you mean "wot:pubkeyAddress"? [18:42] phenny: danbri: 11 May 22:27Z <earle> tell danbri also s/keyid/hex_id/ ? [18:42] phenny: danbri: 12 May 00:12Z <earle> tell danbri Actually, are you the maintainer for WOT? If so I have a suggestion. [18:42] phenny: danbri: 04:12Z <kasei> tell danbri I think the foaf spec (html version only) is missing the OWL type (functional) for primaryTopic while isPrimaryTopicOf properly lists it as an IFP. logger: See http://chatlogs.planetrdf.com/swig/2008-05-14#T16-46-21
