RE: [EXTERNAL] Re: Schema.org v8 release candidate (target 2020-05-01)

The changes mostly look good to me, but I noticed a few things:

  *   The links to nonprofitStatus, teaches, and assesses from the release page are broken. The first is because of a capitalized P. I’m not sure about the other two.
  *   In the description for nonprofitStatus, we start the description, “nonprofit Status …” which looks a bit strange. How about either “Nonprofit status” or “nonprofitStatus”?
  *   What is None:schema.orgNonprofit501c25 in the nonprofit type enumeration?

From: Dan Brickley <danbri@google.com>
Sent: Wednesday, April 29, 2020 5:15 AM
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Subject: [EXTERNAL] Re: Schema.org v8 release candidate (target 2020-05-01)

Apologies - I missed one:

A late but I hope uncontroversial addition for the pending section of 8.0 (I investigated the options back in February and coded this up just too late for 7.0; accidentally dropped it when we fast tracked 7.01-7.04): https://github.com/schemaorg/schemaorg/issues/2469<https://nam06.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fgithub.com%2Fschemaorg%2Fschemaorg%2Fissues%2F2469&data=02%7C01%7Ctmarsh%40exchange.microsoft.com%7C8b197b19c1b64098a97f08d7ec36ebbf%7C72f988bf86f141af91ab2d7cd011db47%7C1%7C0%7C637237592942547943&sdata=jAKh66lk04FAiycbMIFF%2BVESmevqeSeFXMV1%2BoEB4nk%3D&reserved=0>. This provides two properties for representing EDIR identifiers (titles and edits, in their terminology).  Queued for 8.0 as https://webschemas.org/editEIDR<https://nam06.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwebschemas.org%2FeditEIDR&data=02%7C01%7Ctmarsh%40exchange.microsoft.com%7C8b197b19c1b64098a97f08d7ec36ebbf%7C72f988bf86f141af91ab2d7cd011db47%7C1%7C0%7C637237592942547943&sdata=Vou1CVDDOGntc503edEEu2MwBoQ%2B56a9el67IVvgp3k%3D&reserved=0> and https://webschemas.org/titleEIDR<https://nam06.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwebschemas.org%2FtitleEIDR&data=02%7C01%7Ctmarsh%40exchange.microsoft.com%7C8b197b19c1b64098a97f08d7ec36ebbf%7C72f988bf86f141af91ab2d7cd011db47%7C1%7C0%7C637237592942557938&sdata=t%2Fqd24ObfPXRMA9v3MH5Z1K7yuxh0GGV%2FjG3WK%2BYD7E%3D&reserved=0> alongside the rest of https://webschemas.org/docs/releases.html#v8.0<https://nam06.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwebschemas.org%2Fdocs%2Freleases.html%23v8.0&data=02%7C01%7Ctmarsh%40exchange.microsoft.com%7C8b197b19c1b64098a97f08d7ec36ebbf%7C72f988bf86f141af91ab2d7cd011db47%7C1%7C0%7C637237592942557938&sdata=rK6b65vWiS9tdMTrAANjwFl19Y%2BW2HsceMuA%2FvW%2FRvc%3D&reserved=0>

Dan



On Tue, 28 Apr 2020 at 15:28, Dan Brickley <danbri@google.com<mailto:danbri@google.com>> wrote:
Dear Schema.org Community Group, Steering Group, interested parties,

Based on discussions here and in Github, here is a proposal for a new Schema.org release, version 8.0, which I would like to publish on May 1st:

https://webschemas.org/docs/releases.html#v8.0

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We have been on an accelerated schedule since the Covid-19 outbreak. The releases page lists a number of fast-tracked minor releases published since 7.0 was posted on March 17th: 7.01 March 22nd, 7.02 March 31st, 7.03 April 2nd, 7.04 April 16th. This release (assuming a May 1st release date) puts our main releases back on a monthly schedule, and we continue to lean heavily on our "pending" mechanism for early publication of designs. We may continue making occasional interim minor releases as opportunities arise, but I would prefer us to re-establish a regular publication rhythm.

After the release we should review the contents of https://pending.schema.org/<https://nam06.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fpending.schema.org%2F&data=02%7C01%7Ctmarsh%40exchange.microsoft.com%7C8b197b19c1b64098a97f08d7ec36ebbf%7C72f988bf86f141af91ab2d7cd011db47%7C1%7C0%7C637237592942567932&sdata=8%2FMPDHA8fMFQUAt18s1MwWpr2auEBbXAWFQ2NzLF3rU%3D&reserved=0> to see what we have accumulated there over our last several releases, looking for evidence of adoption by publishers and consuming applications, and for opportunities to improve, simplify, clarify or retire the various terms we have defined.  As always, community discussion and varied perspectives on all our schemas is welcome, either on this W3C mailing list, through Github, or elsewhere.

cheers,

Dan