- From: Dan Brickley <danbri@google.com>
- Date: Fri, 7 Aug 2015 18:08:20 +0200
- To: "schema.org Mailing List" <public-schemaorg@w3.org>
- Cc: chaals is Charles McCathie Nevile <chaals@yandex.com>, Shankar Natarajan <shankan@microsoft.com>, Peter Mika <pmika@yahoo-inc.com>, Vicki Tardif Holland <vtardif@google.com>, Ramanathan Guha <guha@google.com>, Martin Hepp <mfhepp@gmail.com>, Stéphane Corlosquet <scorlosquet@gmail.com>, Richard Wallis <wallisr@google.com>
As many of you have noticed, version 2.1 of schema.org (formerly the sdo-ganymede branch) has been released. Release notes are at http://schema.org/docs/releases.html as usual. It is rather late in the week for a blog post so I'll keep this brief and amongst friends for now and just say thanks to everyone who has contributed. This release is important as it is the first to include hosted extensions (in 'preview', review-oriented mode), namely terms in the 'bib' and 'auto' extensions. This python-hacking side of this release is also thanks in large part to Richard Wallis, who has joined us at Google for the summer to help with schema.org, in particular with the community extension mechanism. Richard has jumped in and fixed a small mountain of bugs and issues, while also implementing the mechanics of the extension mechanism. We are aware there are many things that might be improved in terms of navigation and UI and overall workflow, but it is an important milestone to have this phase of the extensions work go live. We can now give some attention to documenting how things are organized so that other Community Group -led extensions can follow in the footsteps of 'auto' and 'bib'. I believe part of this will involve being more agile with releases (2-3 weeks max rather than 2-3 months), but let's pick that conversation up next week. Thanks again to everyone involved! cheers, Dan
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