Policy for editing the ontology

[hauschke]

What is the motivation for your change request?
Using different tools/editors can result in different serializations, which makes the git diff function useless.

Describe the solution you'd like
We need to decide on a tool that we make mandatory to be used for edits. I suggest to require certain versions of Protege. Which versions are allowed will depend on their respective OWLAPI version.

Describe alternatives you've considered
A github action that re-serializes every commit in a particular order to make diffs easier to understand. Might be complicated and brings maybe new issues with it.

Additional context
Thanks to @StroemPhi for the discussions and hints!

[hauschke]

It was clarified in today's onto call that the suggested solution needs some testing. @brianjlowe volunteered to set up a repo for that purpose.

Decision documented in https://wiki.lyrasis.org/display/VIVO/2024-09-04+Ontology+Interest+Group+Call.