Re: Honoring Henry

po 25. 3. 2024 v 12:47 odesílatel Melvin Carvalho <melvincarvalho@gmail.com>
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> po 25. 3. 2024 v 12:33 odesílatel Sarven Capadisli <info@csarven.ca>
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>> On 2024-03-25 12:16, Jacopo Scazzosi wrote:
>> > Hello Sarven,
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>> >> You've noticed that only now?
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>> > 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.
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>> >> Interesting editorial/chairing work there…
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>> > I assume that by “interesting” you mean “bad”. I’ll take it. I make
>> mistakes.
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>> >> 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).
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>> > 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.
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>> 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.
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>> If the acknowledgement section is kept in your draft, I'd suggest
>> ack'ing everyone that meets a certain criteria, whatever that may be.
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>> Regarding Henry's contributions, I'd suggest something along the lines
>> of HTML5's acknowledgements (
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>> https://html.spec.whatwg.org/multipage/acknowledgements.html#acknowledgments
>> ):
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>>  >Thanks to Tim Berners-Lee for inventing HTML, without which none of
>> this would exist.
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>> So:
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>> Thanks to Henry Story for leading the development of WebID, without
>> which none of this would exist.
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> Concur with much of what Sarven is saying or implying.
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> I think it's very important for Jacopo to acknowledge that there is a fork
> of Henry, Tim et als work, supported by Openlink, but without unanimous
> consent.
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> I have asked before and I am strongly in favour of this fork.
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Correction:

The question is who is strongly in favour of this fork, aside from
Openlink.  Actual CG member names would be appreciated.  Then we take it
from there.  I'd like to see strong support.  As stated, I'm strongly
against.


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> It would be good if a response could be on-list, for the project history.
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> Given that 6 people are required to start a CG, IMHO such a big pivot
> should have 6, or close to 6 strong supporters.  I dont like that Openlink
> will be counted as 2 either, but could hold my nose there.
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> Please do answer this Jacopo, on list, with a list of names that strongly
> support this fork.  Not links, actual names, for the history.  Would be
> much appreciated.
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>> -Sarven
>> https://csarven.ca/#i
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