Re: Stepping down

Dear all

I've started my journey with this community about three years ago
strongly believing in the hydra's approach on modern APIs.
I couldn't stand seeing all of the Markus' and the community efforts
wasted, I've decided to give it a try and push the whole stuff.

My time is somehow limited (it always was) and while I'll be formally
a chair - a single point of contact, I'd hate to become a single point
of failure.
That's why I've asked Tomasz (another active member of this community)
for help with this mission (and he agreed).

To start with, we'd like to do some cleanup on GitHub's issues list
first (there are some unresolved issues from 2013) so we can focus on
the important matters.
Some are probably already obsolete, but some may be still valid and in
need of an urgent attention.

We'd also like to move discussions to GitHub rather than to mailing
list - this way we could have all issues, spec and Heracles.ts PR's
linked altogether.
This also means more of a 'fail-fast' approach with spec changes. With
Heracles.ts we can experiment with the spec in a more agile way.
Maybe that approach will bring some fresh air and features that could
cover demands put against the hydra itself.

As for the spec - I personally have a couple of must-have features:
- request's shape - something that would bind altogether body, URI
template and possibly headers; these are somehow disconnected now
- API documentation - this part is heavily underdeveloped; I tried to
create a use case for that and I've failed; while hypermedia controls
are quite well defined and carry a great value that makes hydra
superior to other solutions, but we also need features those other
solutions already provide

Anyway - all of this won't happen without you - the community.
Features won't appear out of nowhere, reviews won't be performed
without your attention.
I hope we'll all be able to move forward with our ideas regarding hydra

Kind regards,
Karol

PS. While I won't 'wait or block any decision' on you Markus, I'm
happy to see you lurking around :)

niedz., 16 gru 2018 o 17:00 Markus Lanthaler
<markus.lanthaler@gmx.net> napisał(a):
>
> Hi folks,
>
> I should have done this quite a while ago, but with the recent discussions
> about Hydra's state it's finally time to make room for new leadership in
> this community. I'm stepping down from any leadership role, real or
> perceived, I have in this group. It's been a very long time since I've had
> enough spare cycles to meaningfully lead the development and I apologize for
> not having done this sooner.
>
> I had a chat with Karol recently and given that he's interested in pushing
> Hydra further, I decided to make him a chair of this W3C community group.
> I'll probably not be able to resist the temptation to lurk around and
> observe in which direction you are going to drive Hydra - I'll refrain from
> stepping in though. That also means, that you should never ever wait or
> block any decision on me. It is in your hands now.
>
> I hope that not only Karol, but also a few others in this community will
> step forward and take up the great work that this community has done over
> the past several years.
>
>
> All the best,
> Markus
>
>
> --
> Markus Lanthaler
> @markuslanthaler
>
>
>

Received on Sunday, 16 December 2018 19:05:06 UTC