TransReq AS2 to CR2 (ActivityStreams 2.0 to Second Candidate Recommendation)

On the web (potentially updated) at https://www.w3.org/wiki/Socialwg/AS2_CR2


    Transition Request

This is a transition request for two documents to Candidate 
Recommendation. This will be their second CR.


      Document title, URIs, and estimated publication date

  * "Activity Streams 2.0", and "Activity Vocabulary"
  * Latest Published: https://www.w3.org/TR/activitystreams-core/ and
    https://www.w3.org/TR/activitystreams-vocabulary/
  * Editor's Draft: http://w3c.github.io/activitystreams/core/ and
    https://w3c.github.io/activitystreams/vocabulary/
  * Staged Draft: Not yet staged
  * Publication Date: 2016-12-15


      The document Abstract and Status sections

No change from first CR.

Abstract:

  * Core: This specification details a model for representing potential
    and completed activities using the JSON format.

  * Vocab: This specification describes the Activity vocabulary.

SOTD:

  * Standard Respec


      Decision to request transition

  * /RESOLUTION: Publish new CR of AS2, giving people another 24 hours
    to review, pending no objections'/
  * https://www.w3.org/wiki/Socialwg/2016-12-06-minutes#resolution02


      Changes

There were two changes that might reasonably affect implementations, 
although they do not affect conformance, since they are changes in 
SHOULD expressions. Both were motivated by concerns about how to best 
indicate natural language of content.

  * core changelog
    <https://w3c.github.io/activitystreams/core/#changelog> and core
    diff <https://www.w3.org/People/Sandro/as2-core-cr1-cr2.html>
  * vocab changelog
    <https://w3c.github.io/activitystreams/vocab/#changelog> (tbd) and
    vocab diff <https://www.w3.org/People/Sandro/as2-vocab-cr1-cr2.html>


      Requirements satisfied

No change from first CR.


      Dependencies met (or not)

No change from first CR.


      Wide Review

See "Wide Review" section of CR1 
<https://www.w3.org/wiki/Socialwg/AS2_CR#Wide_Review>. Additionally:

25 issues raised and closed between the CR1 Transition Request and its 
publication 
<https://github.com/w3c/activitystreams/issues?utf8=%E2%9C%93&q=is%3Aissue%20is%3Aclosed%20created%3A2016-06-28..2016-09-06> 
(from 3 people inside the WG and 3 people outside, not including editors)

20 issues raised and closed between publication of CR1 and today. 
<https://github.com/w3c/activitystreams/issues?utf8=%E2%9C%93&q=is%3Aissue%20is%3Aclosed%20created%3A2016-09-06..2016-12-08%20> 
(from 3 people inside the WG and 2 people outside, not including editors)


      Issues addressed

See issue tags and history


      Formal Objections

None.


      Implementations

Being gathered at 
https://github.com/w3c/activitystreams/tree/master/implementation-reports

Summarized at http://as2.amy.gy/reports.html


      Patent disclosures

None <http://www.w3.org/2004/01/pp-impl/72531/status>