[Versa] Welcome to the Versa list

[Uche Ogbuji]

On Fri, 2005-08-12 at 00:42 -0600, Michael Olson wrote:
> On Aug 12, 2005, at 12:20 AM, Uche Ogbuji wrote:

> > In the coming weeks, I'll be leading discussion that I hope will lead
> > quickly to a draft of Versa 2.0 (even the version designation is open  
> > to
> > discussion).  I look forward to thoughts and comments from any
> > interested party.
> >
> 
> I vote for keeping it 1.0 and getting a good polished release out.   
> Having been through the spec recently I think it is very close.   
> Personally, I have some additional needs for it which we can hash out  
> on the list.

I hadn't really given a thought to continuing the 1.0 vector, to be
honest.

I guess my feel on it is that Versa is really nice, but with a lot of
usage, there are a few things that you just really start to want, and
since there was such a long hiatus in the formal spec writing, I figured
we could just shoot for an even better target.  In that case the version
bump would me more to avoid confusion than anything else, because I get
the sense that we might break backwards compatibility of syntax, and
there since are so many examples of the current syntax out there right
now.

But if 1.0 really is that close to meeting real needs right now (yours,
for example), I'm up for looking that way.

However, I do think it's worth discussing all ideas, and we can see
which ones naturally fall in line for 1.0, and which for 2.0.

> What I plan on doing is, as issues and changes are resolved, building a  
> set of conformance test cases, similar to those the W3c uses for RDF  
> and OWL.  Then, once he have a home for versa making this all available  
> separate from 4Suite.

Sure.  We dropped rdfinference.org once it became obvious that we
weren't taking a different direction from the original RIL (and I just
cleaned up the mailing list misnomer).  I'll try to look for a good,
open domain for versa.  .org or .net shoudl do, right?  Personally I
still haven't got around to giving as much weight to .info, though
perhaps those are just my blinders.

Side note: very glad to have your brain in on this effort.


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