Re: Planning to close Hydra due to inactivity unless we hear from you

Le 20/05/2025 à 20:04, Team Community Process a écrit :
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As far as I can see in this public list, there hasn't been any 
discussion about updating existing specifications or creating any new ones.

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In my previous job, I have started to put REST APIs in production and 
encountered a lot of friction doing so, on the human side as well as the 
technical side. I feel there is a huge need for both better learning 
materials on how REST can be useful and what its use cases and 
limitations actually are, seeing how there is a lot of cargo culting 
around the notion. And there is a desperate need for a lot more tooling 
to make REST more available to development teams.

I really suspect that Hydra is a good foundation to answer to both those 
needs (because it makes writing tooling easier and especially tooling 
that's helpful to discover REST). I have started writing educational 
material about the nature and trade-offs or REST and I would like to see 
work on Hydra start again. If the Hydra WG is currently dormant to the 
point of being closed, I would like to know if it would be possible to 
take a more active role in it and restart the work on the Hydra 
specifications.

Regards,
Pierre Thierry

Received on Tuesday, 20 May 2025 19:15:16 UTC