On Mon, Oct 3, 2016 at 11:47 PM sblackmon <sblack...@apache.org> wrote:
> All, > > > > Several parties on the mailing list have brought up adoption of Activity > Streams 2.0 as an important step forward for the project, and I completely > agree. > +1. IMO it is important to making the project more visible to the wider AS community. > > > > To help frame the conversation around making this happen, I’ve created two > resources for your review, and welcome suggestions and questions. > > > > 1 - a pull request to the w3c activity streams github with an > implementation report written as if all existing Apache Streams > functionality were AS 2.0 compatible. > > > > https://github.com/w3c/activitystreams/pull/356 > > Though premature, I like that you are engaging other communities that might have members who are interested in the work here. > 2 - a wiki page with some high-level notes of a logical (I think) sequence > of steps to move from only AS 1.0 support to full AS 2.0 support. > > > > https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/STREAMS/Activity+Streams+2.0 > I will submit comments on the wiki page as well as the related PRs. > > Please feel free to submit comments on or changes to either document. Let > me know if you need additional permissions, you’ll get them. > > > > There’s a lot to sort out to make this happen, and it’ll require a lot of > work from more than just myself, but it’s entirely achievable within > several release cycles. If we (Apache Streams) don’t continue to maintain > and evolve the translations between proprietary social networking service > APIs and standard formats that we’ve started, it’s far from clear that any > other community is in the wings to step up and do so. > > > > As a brief aside, the ActivityPub draft spec circulating among the w3c > social web working group is quite interesting and ready like a requirements > document for a chunk of the project’s original founding goals. A perfectly > natural extension of what we’ve built here and a good challenge to > potentially tackle in 2017. If you aren’t subscribed to the SocialWG > mailing list, consider joining (you can use your @apache.org address) > > > > Steve > > > >
