Re: Deprecate "actor" in favor of "attributeTo"

I'm fine with keeping actor, just looking at ways of
simplifying/consolidating the core vocab.
On Mar 24, 2015 2:24 PM, "Bill Looby" <bill_looby@ie.ibm.com> wrote:

> Had the same first reaction, based primarily on 'actor' being more
> intuitive.
>
> attributedTo also feels less exact regarding the persons relationship to
> the event, as we lose the notion of action, but the only (very
> unconvincing) example I can think of is that attributedTo could
> theoretically refer to either the actor (this event is attributed to *Jane
> *who commented on Joes Blog entry) or to the sender (this event is
> attributed to *Joe*, who hosts the referenced blog) of the event.
>
> Rgds,
> -Bill.
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> From:        Evan Prodromou <evan@e14n.com>
> To:        public-socialweb@w3.org
> Date:        24/03/2015 20:11
> Subject:        Re: Deprecate "actor" in favor of "attributeTo"
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> I prefer "actor".
>
> "actor" seems much more readable and understandable.
>
> "attributedTo" seems indirect, passive, and uncertain. "Who attributes
> this action to this agent? Why? Are they potentially wrong?"
>
> -Evan
>
> On 2015-03-24 04:02 PM, James M Snell wrote:
> > In the most recent published working draft, the "author" property was
> > replaced by a more generalized "attributedTo" property. "author" is
> > still in there but is listed among the deprecated AS 1.0 terms. The
> > "actor" property on Activities is currently defined as a sub-property
> > of "attributedTo". Moving forward, there's likely very little value in
> > having the separate "actor" property. We can simplify and consolidate
> > down to just using "attributedTo". "actor" would be moved into the
> > deprecated set for backwards compatibility.
> >
> > So instead of:
> >
> >    {
> >      "@type": "Like",
> >      "actor": "http://joe.example.org",
> >      "object": "http://example.org/posts/1"
> >    }
> >
> > It would be:
> >
> >    {
> >      "@type": "Like",
> >      "attributedTo": "http://joe.example.org",
> >      "object": "http://example.org/posts/1"
> >    }
> >
> > Note: this proposal does not ADD anything to the vocabulary, it
> > removes. Which is a good thing.
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