[Metafacture] Metafacture governance

[Fabian Steeg]

Hi all,

unfortunately, the Metafacture community remains very fragmented. There 
are currently 10 open pull requests by 8 different contributors at [1], 
the oldest now over 2 years old. Our plan from last year's get-together 
at SWIB [2] to allow contributions by modularization did not take off 
(Pascal and I would be happy to help implementing that, if there are any 
steps we could do).

The fragmented community remains active though, and both the D:SWARM and 
hbz forks are up to date with the culturegraph repo [3]. The main issue 
seems to be maintainer resources on the culturegraph repo. To fix that, 
I'd like to suggest that the DNB adds maintainers from the D:SWARM (if 
they are interested) and hbz teams to the culturegraph repo, so that it 
becomes not only the formal central repo, but the actual center of the 
Metafacture community.

Cheers,
Fabian

[1] https://github.com/culturegraph/metafacture-core/pulls
[2] http://etherpad.lobid.org/p/swib15-metafacture
[3] https://github.com/culturegraph/metafacture-core/network

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Fabian Steeg, Software Developer | Linked Open Data, http://hbz-nrw.de