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

Hi,

I'm one of the main contributors to API Platform, a REST-oriented PHP framework, and we use Hydra intensively. We've built a full back-office based on the Hydra specification that updates automatically according to the Hydra documentation. JSON-LD and the Hydra extensions are our main recommended formats. More recently, I've been working on a PHP Hydra client.

That said, I would love to see more activity on the repository and would be glad to help maintain these repositories if needed (I've recently opened a few PRs on the HydraCG organization).

I have no experience in chairing and I'm not sure I would be a good fit for that role quite yet. However, I'd be glad to assist as a co-chair if needed to familiarize myself more with the processes.
I remember about a year ago there was a similar discussion about the Hydra group. There was a hypothesis that it could join the JSON-LD group; is this still a possibility?
On Wednesday, May 21st, 2025 at 12:43 AM, Filip Kolarik <filip26@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi,
> Hydra suffers from the same problem as REST (the original architectural concept, not the label loosely applied to anything using HTTP ;) It solves a problem most developers don’t have, in a way that’s harder to adopt, and with less tooling than the alternatives.
>
> Perhaps the advent of the "agentic web" (whatever that term ultimately comes to mean) could shift the demand. But that would also require rethinking the specification, evolving the core concepts, and adapting them to better reflect today’s realities and our expectations for the near future.
>
> Best regards,
> Filip
> https://www.linkedin.com/in/filipkolarik/
>
> On Wed, May 21, 2025 at 12:28 AM Asbjørn Ulsberg <asbjorn@ulsberg.no> wrote:
>
>> On 21 May 2025, at 00:15, Judson Lester <nyarly@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> I've been experimenting with Hydra in my side projects and am mostly finding it to be a good framework for REST, JSON-LD, and RDF. I'd like to see some changes to the specification, although from what I understand they'd take significant changes to make work. I have time and inclination to participate in discussion and write documentation,
>>
>> I’m glad to hear!
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>>> Are any of the original WG members available to continue the work?
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>> I would love to see the CG invigorated, and continue the ongoing discussions in the open issues on GitHub.
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>> https://github.com/HydraCG/Specifications/issues
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>>> I feel like there'd be a lot of value in continuity there.
>>
>> Agreed!
>>
>> --
>> Asbjørn Ulsberg. -=|=- asbjorn@ulsberg.no
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