Re: Priority of Constituencies proposal

If there's some concern about having a co-editor, I think I'd make a 
good one.

I've been involved with Activity Streams for more than 5 years, and I've 
written two implementations (StatusNet and pump.io). I've made a number 
of contributions to the editorial and content of the document.

I definitely think that we shouldn't decide on a co-editor before next 
week's telecon.

-Evan

On 2015-10-26 08:12 PM, Harry Halpin wrote:
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> On 10/26/2015 10:44 PM, James M Snell wrote:
>> I've seen the very constructive feedback from Jason 
>> (https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-socialweb/2015Oct/0191.html). 
>> I'm quite certain that he can continue to speak for himself. As I 
>> said, based on the constructive feedback, tweaks are being made 
>> (https://github.com/jasnell/w3c-socialwg-activitystreams/pull/220). 
>> The most productive thing to do at this point is for potential 
>> implementers to keep feeding in *constructive*, *specific* discussion 
>> so that *specific* improvements can continue to be made. We won't 
>> make progress talking about process yet again.
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> I think the process suggestion re "Priority of Constituencies" is 
> rather common-sense - and still useful, as now in addition to specific 
> feeback, we have an *alternative* syntax to AS2.0 being developed in 
> the WG:
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> https://github.com/w3c-social/Social-Syntax-Brainstorming/wiki/Minimal-Activity-Stream
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> I'd prefer to have one spec. The "Priority of Constituencies" is one 
> way to deal with situation where there is conflict between specs or 
> designs. In addition, a co-editor for AS2.0 would be make sense, 
> perhaps Aaron given the work on Minimal Activity Streams?
>
>        cheers,
>             harry
>
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>> On Mon, Oct 26, 2015 at 7:19 PM, Harry Halpin <hhalpin@w3.org 
>> <mailto:hhalpin@w3.org>> wrote:
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>>     On 10/26/2015 09:41 PM, James M Snell wrote:
>>>     -1. I don't see this as being useful right now at all. A year ago, maybe. At this point in time for AS2, we are making decent progress again getting specific feedback from potential implementers and making improvements accordingly. All of the potential implementers who have spoken up have said that AS2 is at a good point but it just needs a few tweaks here and there. That is productive. What's being suggested here is not.
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>>     However, none of the implementers seem very thrilled
>>     (particularly with some of the JSON-LD specific parts - see
>>     feedback from Diaspora or the internationalization issue)  and
>>     quite a few are asking for simplifications. In terms of
>>     simplifications and added complexity coming from different
>>     communities, I think this rule served HTML5 well and it would
>>     serve this spec well.
>>
>>                      cheers,
>>                           harry
>>
>>>     Sent from IBM Verse
>>>
>>>
>>>     Harry Halpin --- Priority of Constituencies proposal ---
>>>
>>>     From:  "Harry Halpin" <hhalpin@w3.org> <mailto:hhalpin@w3.org>
>>>     To:  public-socialweb@w3.org <mailto:public-socialweb@w3.org>
>>>     Date:  Mon, Oct 26, 2015 6:29 PM
>>>     Subject:  Priority of Constituencies proposal
>>>
>>>     ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>>>
>>>     I was discussing with some Social Web developers why this group
>>>     was as contentious, and it occured to me that one obvious
>>>     problem is that we don't have a clear priority of
>>>     constituencies. This "Priority of Constituencies" served HTML5
>>>     Working Group well, and I'd suggest we adopt it with one change
>>>     that acknowlegdges that we do have three very different
>>>     communities in the room trying to make a common interoperability
>>>     format, each with different design preferences (i.e. JSON,
>>>     microformats, and RDF). Here's the version from HTML [1]: "In
>>>     case of conflict, consider users over authors over implementors
>>>     over specifiers over theoretical purity. In other words costs or
>>>     difficulties to the user should be given more weight than costs
>>>     to authors; which in turn should be given more weight than costs
>>>     to implementors; which should be given more weight than costs to
>>>     authors of the spec itself, which should be given more weight
>>>     than those proposing changes for theoretical reasons alone. Of
>>>     course, it is preferred to make things better for multiple
>>>     constituencies at once." It's rather common-sense but its
>>>     important to be explicit about it. Now, I'd like to take an
>>>     amendment. There's three groups, each of which have different
>>>     definitions of theoretical purity: The JSON-using group who are
>>>     not terribly attached to JSON-LD and the details of AS2.0 but
>>>     are interested in a simple JSON format and has a number of
>>>     implementers with a larger number of end-users than the
>>>     microformat space, a micro-format community that prefers
>>>     shipping around HTML with microformats and has very active
>>>     implementers, and another group around RDF/Linked Data that has
>>>     at least one active codebase. I suggest that we prioritize the
>>>     demands for theoretical purity based on number of users/authors.
>>>     Thus, we prioritize keeping JSON (ideally, as simple as
>>>     possible) over microformats, and we prioritize microformats over
>>>     RDF. My logic is the community that passes around JSON using
>>>     HTTP URIs is magnitudes larger than the microformat community,
>>>     and the microformat community is rather about equal in size to
>>>     the RDF community - although the microformat community is more
>>>     active in terms of number of implementers. However, I firmly
>>>     believe the RDF community has valuable insights that need to be
>>>     input into the space around the use of URLs and multiple
>>>     schemas, and so the final specs should be acceptable to all
>>>     communities. Yet if microformat or RDF-specific processing is
>>>     required, that 'pain' should lie on the implementers who want to
>>>     convert the format to RDF or to microformats, and not on the
>>>     users, authors, and JSON-based implementers [roughly in that
>>>     order]. I hope that makes sense and I think all communities will
>>>     have to give and take, but that's what consensus is about.
>>>     cheers, harry [1]
>>>     http://www.w3.org/TR/html-design-principles/#priority-of-constituencies/
>>>
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