Re: Honoring Henry

po 25. 3. 2024 v 12:33 odesílatel Sarven Capadisli <info@csarven.ca> napsal:

> 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.
>

FWIW I think there is/was an elegant and simple solution to this problem.

Keep the names of Henry, Timbl, Andrei in the spec of version number 1.0
from year 2014

Then for work in the year 2024, have a version number of 1.1

This mirrors the approach of JSON-LD 1.0 and 1.1

Everyone gets acknowledged, new and old, no names are lost etc.

A one character change that could clear up a lot of confusion.  May be a
bit late now.  But I think thing it would work.


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