status of repos and branches

[VladimirAlexiev]

I'm wondering which is the most current repo and branch where development is ongoing.

1. Repo: from https://groups.google.com/g/openrefine-dev/c/q8aPbHFgyfs I understand that ouf these repos, the last (this) one is the most current, and indeed it has regular releases (Apr 2020, Jun 2020).

• https://github.com/fadmaa/grefine-rdf-extension
• https://github.com/DTL-FAIRData/orefine-rdf-extension (23 commits ahead of fadmaa:master)
• https://github.com/pbackx/grefine-rdf-extension (3 commits ahead of fadmaa:master)
• https://github.com/stkenny/grefine-rdf-extension (157 commits ahead of fadmaa:master)

Could you add some history and/or statement in the README to give people some assurance that this repo incorporates everything useful from the other repos?

2. Branch: this repo has 8 branches https://github.com/stkenny/grefine-rdf-extension/branches/all, of which orefine is the current (default) one.

• Are there plans to merge or discard the other branches?
• And maybe transition to master, or add a statement that/why orefine is the effective "master"?

3. Issues: fadmaa/grefine-rdf-extension has 68 open issues.

• Which ones are fixed here?
• If people care about an issue, should they copy it from there to here?
• In particular, I care about GraphDB. https://github.com/fadmaa/grefine-rdf-extension/issues/33 describes one problem, but GraphDB has many ways of making full-text indexes so it's a wider problem.

[MPParsley]

Hi @VladimirAlexiev, I wonder if you got any answers on these questions in the mean time?

This answers one question: https://github.com/fadmaa/grefine-rdf-extension/issues/124

[stkenny]

1. No, it's not possible to give assurance that this repo incorporates everything useful from all other forks.
2. The default branch is now main. orefine was used as it was possible that at some point I would look at a pull request to the forked repo. But that seems unlikely now so development has moved to main.
3. Yes, copying issues here would make sense. At least I have no plan to go through all the old issues.

[VladimirAlexiev]

hi @stkenny thanks for the answers! Could you put them in the README to reassure users (see 4 above)?

I think @wetneb told me a while back that grefine-rdf-extension is alive and well here, it's nice to see the author confirm this.

• We got our own OntoRefine (see https://graphdb.ontotext.com/documentation/free/loading-data-using-ontorefine.html)
• The Wikidata extension works great for mapping to WD
• But for people not using either of these, your extension is indispensable

Cheers!