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What's the status of MA and EMAPA? #2469

Open cthoyt opened 8 months ago

cthoyt commented 8 months ago

https://obofoundry.org/ontology/ma and https://obofoundry.org/ontology/emapa appear to show these ontologies have regular standing, but I have been unsuccessful at contacting @tfhayamizu either on their issue trackers or by several emails over the last few years (most recent being early May 2023). Both of these ontologies appear to be under the same tracker at https://github.com/obophenotype/mouse-anatomy-ontology.

What is the right step forward? This ontology isn't "inactive" (i.e., there are sporadic commits over the last few years), but it also doesn't seem to match any of the possibilities in https://github.com/OBOFoundry/OBOFoundry.github.io/blob/master/docs/OntologyStatus.md. I think the most accurate way to describe what's going on for MA/EMAPA is to create an "unresponsive" flag for this situation as suggested in #2255.

cthoyt commented 8 months ago

Tagging other past contributors to this repo:

The last is Chris Mungall, but I'll save him the ping

tfhayamizu commented 8 months ago

@cthoyt My apologies for the lack of responsiveness. Apparently I missed the May 2023 correspondence. The MA has not been updated for several years but is maintained for use by other resources. The EMAPA is actively used by GXD and MGI. Files are in GitHub and periodically released publicly. Can you let me know specifically what action needs to be taken in order to avoid an 'unresponsive' flag.

cthoyt commented 8 months ago

@tfhayamizu thanks for responding. The things that would be great for you to take care of are:

If you are unsure how to go about using these parts of GitHub, I am happy to meet and help you work through them.

I would also suggest promoting a second person to have rights to merge and push the project forward (both from a technical and project governance perspective) to ensure the project can live up to the OBO Foundry expectations of responsiveness even if you aren't personally able to keep up the project.

@matentzn is a very busy guy already but I think he would be a good choice to consider for "deputy" maintainer since he is very active/responsive on GitHub but also very careful about making big changes (whereas I myself could volunteer but am more likely to make big changes without asking anyone 😄)

cmungall commented 8 months ago

@ukemi is also very knowledgeable about github workflows and repo maintenance in GO

cthoyt commented 7 months ago

@tfhayamizu are you going to be able to follow up on this?

tfhayamizu commented 7 months ago

@cthoyt Looking this over, I realize that I may need some assistance with technical aspects of some of these issues. I will be away next week (working sporadically) and part of the week after that, but will direct my efforts to this right after that. I appreciate your attention to this matter.

sbello commented 7 months ago

@tfhayamizu I can also help out with some of the GitHub basics if you need help

nlharris commented 2 months ago

What is the status of this?

cthoyt commented 2 months ago

I think the follow-up should be to mark MA and EMAPA as unresponsive since @tfhayamizu isn't generally available for discussion

tfhayamizu commented 2 months ago

@cthoyt Again, apologies for my lack of reponsiveness. I would like to move forward with addressing the specific issues concerning the MA, which has been static for some time. I will look into what needs to be done but likely will need assistance with technical aspects.

sbello commented 2 months ago

@tfhayamizu let me know if there is anything I can help with

tfhayamizu commented 2 months ago

@sbello Thanks, Sue. I would appreciated it.