Re: Honoring Henry

On 2024-03-25 12:16, Jacopo Scazzosi wrote:
> Hello Sarven,
> 
>> You've noticed that only now?
> 
> Yes, I did actually notice that only now and I am trying to rectify the situation. Making sure that the spec properly acknowledged those who contributed to it is something I wanted to look at after clearing the backlog but I hadn’t realized that there was no mention of Henry left at all.
> 
>> Interesting editorial/chairing work there…
> 
> I assume that by “interesting” you mean “bad”. I’ll take it. I make mistakes.
> 
>> So, Henry authored/edited, among many other things, the WebID specification. You may want to (re-)visit the history before reducing Henry's contributions to "acknowledgements" (which goes without saying).
> 
> It is not my intention to reduce or minimize anything, as should be clear by the fact that I’m calling for the group to pitch in as to what to do in this regard. I also wouldn’t know where to put a paragraph (or two, or as many as the group wants) about Henry if not in the acknowledgements section, though that’s likely down to my own inexperience. If there are better ways to commemorate a late chair within the spec itself, let’s do that.
> 
> Best,
> Jacopo.


Clearly Andrei, Henry, and Tim are co-authors. As you're the only chair 
and editor, you must read every single character that's being drafted.

If the acknowledgement section is kept in your draft, I'd suggest 
ack'ing everyone that meets a certain criteria, whatever that may be.

Regarding Henry's contributions, I'd suggest something along the lines 
of HTML5's acknowledgements ( 
https://html.spec.whatwg.org/multipage/acknowledgements.html#acknowledgments 
):

 >Thanks to Tim Berners-Lee for inventing HTML, without which none of 
this would exist.

So:

Thanks to Henry Story for leading the development of WebID, without 
which none of this would exist.

-Sarven
https://csarven.ca/#i

Received on Monday, 25 March 2024 11:33:21 UTC