Proposed Group: RDF Test Suite Curation Community Group
The RDF Test Suite Curation Community Group has been proposed by Gregg Kellogg:
The purpose of this group is to provide a home for the test suites and implementation reports of various Semantic Web/Linked Data specifications. After the end of a working group, the test suites often become frozen, and it is difficult to add new tests for issues that come to light later on. Similarly, some specs are implemented on a base technology, which eventually evolves (e.g. SPARQL 1.1 and RDF 1.1), and developers need access to updated tests.
This group will create a home for forks of the various test suites that would be appropriate to act as a redirect for existing tests. Test updates will be considered based on the consensus of those invested in the related specifications. Implementation reports can be updated as new reports are received, giving implementations visibility.
You are invited to support the creation of this group. Once the group has a total of five supporters, it will be launched and people can join to begin work. In order to support the group, you will need a W3C account.
Once launched, the group will no longer be listed as “proposed”; it will be in the list of current groups.
If you believe that there is an issue with this group that requires the attention of the W3C staff, please send us email on site-comments@w3.org
Thank you,
W3C Community Development Team
I suggest slightly modifying the wording of the group’s purpose to make it read appropriately in the future, after the group is under way.
Specifically, I suggest changing “After the end of a working group, the test suites often become frozen, and it is difficult” to “Before this group was created, test suites often became frozen at the end of a working group, and it was difficult”.
Sure, presumably we can do this once the group is active.