Hackathon against COVID-19

[Jerven Tjalling Bolleman]

Hi RDFLib co-devs and users,

There is a hackathon starting to work on ideas regarding COVID-19 data.

https://graph-genome.github.io/

Part of the task will be building a viral pangenome graph.
And associating it with existing data e.g. from UniProt.

https://github.com/pangenome/spodgi

SpOdgi: Is a tool that is supposed to turn any native graph genome
format into a sparql endpoint. Spodgi is based on rdflib for it's
engine.

There is a bunch of open issues in which I could use some help.
Firstly, making it easier to install with docker images etc.
Secondly, the tool is now CLI based and it really needs to have a sparql
endpoint accessible by http.

In any case I could use some help there.

Regards,
Jerven




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Jerven Tjalling Bolleman
SIB | Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics
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[Nicholas Car]

Dear rdflib devs,

In a few hour’s time we will be in PR freeze in preparation for the 5.0.0 release packaging over the next few days. We are easily on-track for the 3rd of April as planned!

PRs

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In the last few weeks we’ve closed 27 PRs so we’re now down to just 15! We’ve also closed 22 Issue and opened several new ones but we still have 180 open. We’ll get there. I would like to see only a few issues open - a sign that the code base has things to address but not millions.

The last changes we’ll be making are to update the readthedocs CSS theming a bit so that the 5.0.0 release uses different colours. This will just ensure people know they’re looking at something new when they see the new pages.

5.0.0 is the last Python 2 release

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Yes, this release, barring any urgent faults, will be the last Python 2 supporting release. As soon as this is out, we will focus on 6.0.0 as per the schedule at https://rdflib.github.io which will drop Python 2.7 and 3.4 support. If you are still using Python 2 (why! shame!) this is probably the last release for you.

I encourage you all to start using the 5.0.0 release next week when it’s out and report any issue immediately so we can decide if we really need to do something about them.

Thanks,

Nick (and Ashely & Natanael)