2020 04 28 6.0.0 Planning Meeting

Agenda

Introductions
- who you are and a sentence on your RDFlib interests
- Jerven Bolleman. Interest in having a great RDF story for python to allow things like SpOdgi to exist and be useful
Potential Targets for 6.0.0
- Dropping Python 2 & 3.4
  - Maintainers wish to drop
  - Issue poll indicates they should be dropped
- Targets from existing PRs
  - Move Store API to work with identifiers, not graphs (PRs 409, 958 & Issue 845)
  - Namespace object inheritance (PR 597
- Targets discussed in previous meeting
  - RDF*/SPARQL* support (Issue 995)
- Maintainers favourites
  - HDT Support (Issue 894)
  - plugin discovery causes very bad startup time (Issue 952)
  - Blank Node collisions (Issues 892, 980, https://github.com/RDFLib/rdflib/issues/123)
  - RDFlib Exception Hierarchy (Issue 515)
  - Make FunOwl available as a plugin (Issue 1017)
- Previous maintainers favourites
  - Streaming parsers: (Issue 283, PR 411)
  - Creating a stable core, with many satellite plugins (Issue 391)
- Others raised in this meeting
  - ...
  - ...
Likely timelines for 6.0.0
- initially proposed for end of June, 2020
- to be based on the number of targets and peoples' available efforts
Future meeting schedule
- propose maintainers meet monthly, following last meet
- suggestions for any other meetings
Next meeting
- @nicholascar: propose this be the Maintainers Meeting, approx first Thursday of each month (so 7th of May)
  - don't need to be locked in, just any suggestions!