Re: Now "new" not "pending"

Yes, I changed this to encapsulate the explanation I have been repeatedly
giving out when people inevitably ask what "pending" means. We now have an
easier explanation for "new", which is that it is short for "new-ish"...

Dan

On Fri, 17 Nov 2023, 10:44 Phil Barker, <phil.barker@pjjk.co.uk> wrote:

> Hello all, apologies if I missed something a few months ago, but a
> colleague has noticed that the note for terms such as EducationalOccupationalCredential
> <https://schema.org/EducationalOccupationalCredential>has changed.
>
> It now says
>
> > *This term is in the "new" area - implementation feedback and adoption
> from applications and websites can help improve our definitions.*
> <https://schema.org/Thing>
>
> Up until ~May this year the phrasing was:
>
> *> This term is proposed for full integration into Schema.org, pending
> <https://web.archive.org/web/20230126121920/https://schema.org/docs/pending.home.html>
> implementation feedback and adoption from applications and websites.*
>
> Am I right in thinking that this isn't so much a change in status for
> these properties as a better description of their current status?
>
> If so I welcome this change. I always felt that the phrase "pending"
> encouraged people to wait for something to happen before using the new
> terms, while Dan and colleagues were waiting for people to use the terms
> before taking them out of "pending".
>
> Phil
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