Re: [Obo-discuss] PATO retired? (fwd)

[Chris M. <cj...@fr...>]

On May 8, 2008, at 1:59 PM, Mark Musen wrote:

> On May 8, 2008, at 1:34 PM, Amelia Ireland wrote:
>> [snip BioPortal / ontologies.txt dependencies]
>>> Moving forward, the NCBO will take steps to ensure that any sudden
>>> changes to the syntax or semantics of the OBO Sourceforge
>>> “ontologies.txt” file will not break the integration with
>>> BioPortal.   Amelia Ireland at EBI plans to inform us of all future
>>> changes to the “ontologies.txt” file.
>> [snip]
>>
>> Thank you for letting me know of this new responsibility. However,
>> I'm not
>> sure that it's wise for me to keep you up to date on the
>> ontologies.txt
>> file, given that I am not involved in the maintenance of the file or
>> in
>> deciding its syntax - I haven't even looked at the file for over a
>> year
>> now. It would probably be better to give the task to someone
>> involved in
>> the OBO Foundry / SourceForge / NCBO project.
>
>
> Hi Amelia,
>
> Sorry about the miscommunication!  I did not mean to assign new tasks
> to you!
>
> The OBO community does need to keep the NCBO informed of changes to
> the "ontologies.txt" file.  Everyone should be aware that, if someone
> mucks with the file, it is possible that the automatic upload of
> content to BioPortal may break.

Sorry about the disruption.

In future we will give a months lead time, announced on this list and  
to all stakeholders (BioPortal, OLS, etc) of any non-backwards  
compatible changes.

> Thanks,
>
> Mark
>
>
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