Re: Should the specs be forked and maintained elsewhere?

čt 23. 3. 2023 v 13:56 odesílatel Evan Prodromou <evan@prodromou.name>
napsal:

> So, for AP and AS2, I think it's the authors. We're supposed to publish
> updates and errata.
>
> I can get in and start looking at these. I'll talk to the other authors.
> It's been a while!
>

I would suggest that the open source community be the main drivers for
taking these specs forward, rather than companies such as IBM, who were
heavily involved in the working group

Logically its seems to me that it might be prudent to look at AS3 and then
AP2, roughly in that order

On a meta note the cost of creating and maintaining vocabularies has seemed
to me to be a barrier to developer participation.  Perhaps improving the
devX could be something that is valuable to look at in v.next


>
> Evan
>
> On Mar 21, 2023 17:25, Bob Wyman <bob@wyman.us> wrote:
>
> I've seen several suggestions that, due to inactivity in this group, it
> would make sense to fork either or both of the ActivityStreams and
> ActivityPub specs with the intent to develop them further and maintain them
> elsewhere. The most recent suggestion
> <https://socialhub.activitypub.rocks/t/should-we-fork-as-ap-specs-to-codeberg-create-vnext-drafts/3022>
> that I've seen was made in one of the forums on the ActivityRocks site.
>
> My personal feeling is that the proper forum for maintenance of these W3C
> specs is within this community. Am I correct? However, I sympathize with
> others who feel that maintenance is simply not happening. There are now 55
> open issues <https://github.com/w3c/activitypub/issues> on ActivityPub's
> GitHub repository and 58 open issues
> <https://github.com/w3c/activitystreams/issues> on the ActivityStreams
> repository. Who is responsible for addressing those issues, closing them,
> or taking action on them? What is the process by which these decisions will
> be made?
>
> Other W3C groups that I've worked with have regular Zoom or Jitsi meetings
> to discuss issues. Why doesn't this group ever have such meetings?
>
> bob wyman
>
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