Re: moving forward—with a plan

2016-05-25 22:48 GMT+02:00 Markus Lanthaler <markus.lanthaler@gmx.net>:

> I don't think we have a tooling or process issue. In my opinion the biggest
> issues is we have are missing commitment and contribution... and, probably
> most importantly, lack of code that is driving and informing the discussions.

I'd say that those are symptoms of a tooling and process issue. But
since I agree with what you write later, that's not very important.

> So, my proposal is comparatively simple: we start creating a Hydra client (or
> a couple of them) and use it to drive the further development of Hydra.

Excellent idea! The reason I like this idea, is that it means the
development of Hydra turns in to actual *development*, and the most
natural way to do that is on GitHub with issues, pull requests, etc.,
just like Tomasz suggested. However, it's even better to contribute
actual code to a working implementation than (just) text to a
specification.

It's secondary, but in order to get more contributions to the
specification, I would strongly urge you to consider changing the
format from HTML to Markdown.

> As soon as we are happy with the implementation of a feature, we will update
> the specification (at which point, we will already have examples).

+1.

> So, to start gauging the interest, I created a survey:
>
>   https://www.w3.org/2002/09/wbs/64267/hydra-client-collaboration/

Answered.

2016-05-26 0:01 GMT+02:00 Paul Sadauskas <paul@sadauskas.com>:

> I found the easiest approach for me would be to write a test suite that would
> exercise the Hydra example server and my code, and highlight the differences.

I think the test suite should be a part of the scope of the project.
Implementers of both servers and clients should be able to exercise
their implementation by a standard test suite that should be easy to
improve through pull requests and which should provide good feedback
to the implementer when something is wrong in his or her
implementation.

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