Re: AS 2.0 Change Proposals

On 28 October 2015 at 18:09, James M Snell <jasnell@gmail.com> wrote:

> For each of the items on next weeks agenda, here's my current disposition:
>
> +1: [Activity Streams 2.0] Various Spec Cleanups and Simplifications -
> https://github.com/jasnell/w3c-socialwg-activitystreams/pull/220
> (James)
> +1: [Activity Streams 2.0] Proposal: Remove "priority" -
> https://github.com/jasnell/w3c-socialwg-activitystreams/issues/218
> (James, Ben Roberts)
> +1: [Activity Streams 2.0] Proposal: Remove "alias" -
> https://github.com/jasnell/w3c-socialwg-activitystreams/issues/225
> (James)
> +1: [Activity Streams 2.0] Proposal: Remove "Experience" -
> https://github.com/jasnell/w3c-socialwg-activitystreams/issues/226
> (James)
> +1: [Activity Streams 2.0] Proposal: Remove "Service" actor type -
> https://github.com/jasnell/w3c-socialwg-activitystreams/issues/227
> (James)
> +1: [Activity Streams 2.0] Proposal: Limit "duration" to ISO8601
> duration strings -
> https://github.com/jasnell/w3c-socialwg-activitystreams/issues/213
> (James)
> +1: [Activity Streams 2.0] Proposal: Remove @context from all examples
> - https://github.com/jasnell/w3c-socialwg-activitystreams/issues/233
> (Ben)
> +1: [Activity Streams 2.0] Proposal: Specify a content type on Content
> objects -
> https://github.com/jasnell/w3c-socialwg-activitystreams/issues/229
> (Michael Vogel, James)
> +1: [Activity Streams 2.0] Proposal: Alias `@id` and `@type` to `id`
> and `type` -
> https://github.com/jasnell/w3c-socialwg-activitystreams/issues/232
> (Manu Sporny, James)
> +1: [Activity Streams 2.0] Evan joining as Co-Editor
> (https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-socialweb/2015Oct/0214.html)
>
> Nearly all of these involve *removing* things from the core and
> vocabulary spec. Nothing is added. One allows the already existing
> `mediaType` property to appear on `Content` objects. Overall, the
> batch of changes above simplify the spec.
>
> +0: [Activity Streams 2.0] Proposal: Object partOf Collection -
> https://github.com/jasnell/w3c-socialwg-activitystreams/issues/205
> (Amy)
>
> -1: [Activity Streams 2.0] Proposal: Remove "hreflang" -
> https://github.com/jasnell/w3c-socialwg-activitystreams/issues/219
> (James, Ben Roberts)
> -1: [Activity Streams 2.0] Proposal: Type for object of an Offer -
> https://github.com/jasnell/w3c-socialwg-activitystreams/issues/175
> (Evan)
> -1: [Activity Streams 2.0] Proposal: Add "Blog" Object Type -
> https://github.com/jasnell/w3c-socialwg-activitystreams/issues/157
> (Evan)
> -1: [Activity Streams 2.0] Proposal: Separation of concerns, API vs
> Data Format -
> https://github.com/jasnell/w3c-socialwg-activitystreams/issues/221
> (Elf)
> -1: [Activity Streams 2.0] Proposal: Need Blob object types? -
> https://github.com/jasnell/w3c-socialwg-activitystreams/issues/223
> (Elf)
> -1: [Activity Streams 2.0] Proposal: Remodel verbs as an rdf:Property
> rather than an object type -
> https://github.com/jasnell/w3c-socialwg-activitystreams/issues/208
> (Elf)
> -1: [Activity Streams 2.0] Media type discussions -
> https://github.com/jasnell/w3c-socialwg-activitystreams/issues/52
> (Markus, Andreas Kuckartz)
>
> IMHO, these either add or change things unnecessarily or in a way that
> could hurt interoperability.
>

Thanks for compiling this summary, James.  Very helpful.

When you say "hurt interoperability", would it be possible to elaborate
slightly.  Interoperability between *what*.  I appreciate there are still a
few unknowns on that point.


>
> On the issue of considering an alternative JSON serialization:
>
> -1: Social Syntax: Simplified Microformats2 JSON "jf2" (Aaron)
>
> - James
>
>