Re: [protege-user] Protégé not longer maintain ?

Damien,

Thank you for your efforts to maintain Protege!

I was not aware of the change to community maintenance, and I had been
continuing to look for new versions on the Stanford website.

So this thread has been most useful and informative for me.

If I missed an obvious announcement, mea culpa :-)

Bill

On Thu, Aug 21, 2025 at 5:16 AM Damien Goutte-Gattat via protege-user <
[email protected]> wrote:

> On 21 Aug 2025, at 09:23, Luis Enrique Ramos García via protege-user <
> [email protected]> wrote:
> > When was it announced that protégé would not be maintained any more?.
>
> Speaking as the de facto maintainer of Protégé, this comes as a surprise
> to me. :D
>
> The only announcement I am aware of is the one made by Matthew Horridge
> when Protégé 5.6.0 was released in February 2023 [1], in which he explained
> that Protégé Desktop was no longer maintained *by Stanford University* but
> was now a “community-maintained” project.
>
> I don’t know if that is the source that allows the author of this blog
> post to claim that Protégé is “no longer being maintained“, but if so,
> that’s a serious misunderstanding.
>
> “Community-maintained” does *not* mean “no longer maintained”, and
> pretending that it does is, quite frankly, insulting to all the free
> software developers who maintain community-led projects (including many of
> some of the most critical pieces of our modern infrastructure).
>
> “Community-maintained” means that the project will be maintained as long
> as there is at least one person in the community motivated to maintain it.
> For now, that person is me, along with a couple of other persons (e.g.
> Yevgeny Kazakov). And I do intend to keep maintaining Protégé for the
> foreseeable future.
>
> Now, one possible source of confusion is that, since I am not affiliated
> with Stanford University in any way, I have no control whatsoever over the
> Protégé website on protege.stanford.edu <http://protege.stanford.edu/>.
> Initially, there was a mechanism in place that allowed me to at least
> update the download links to point to the latest release, but that
> mechanism has been broken in the past few months for some reason. This is
> why the protege.stanford.edu <http://protege.stanford.edu/> website still
> says that the latest release of Protégé Desktop is Protégé 5.6.5 (released
> last October), even though I had since then released Protégé 5.6.6 back in
> May and Protégé 5.6.7 two weeks ago.
>
> Until/unless Stanford gives me back a working mechanism to update the
> official Protégé website, anyone looking to download the latest version of
> Protégé should head to the releases page of the GitHub repository [2].
>
>
> > Is there protégé reaching his EOL?.
>
> *Not* for as long as I have anything to say about it.
>
>
> > Or are the claims of this author wrong?.
>
> The claim about Protégé no longer being maintained is definitely wrong.
> And I can’t help but feel that this is not, in fact, a “misunderstanding”
> of the aforementioned announcement about Protégé being handed over to the
> community, but a deliberate lie aimed at bolstering the other claims about
> OWL being ”phased out”.
>
> Best,
>
> - Damien, your Protégé maintainer
>
>
> [1]
> https://mailman.stanford.edu/pipermail/protege-user/2023-February/013447.html
>
> [2]
> https://github.com/protegeproject/protege-distribution/releases/tag/protege-5.6.7
>
>
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> Damien Goutte-Gattat, PhD   Department of Physiology,
>                             Development and Neuroscience
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