2010/5/28 Rob Myers <[email protected]> > On 05/28/2010 05:11 PM, Ted Smith wrote: > >> On Fri, 2010-05-28 at 11:51 -0400, Matt Lee wrote: >> >>> Due to maturity of the codebase, myself and the other contributors have >>> decided to build GNU social alongside StatusNet, and additionally, we >>> recommend OStatus as the basis for the distributed social networking >>> protocol we intend to champion. >>> >> >> I thought this had been discussed (and rejected) in the past - as far >> back as the autonomo.us mailing list. What's changed since then in terms >> of the StatusNet protocol serving as the basis for the GNU Social >> protocol? >> > > No other protocol has the same mixture of maturity (as you point out), > large existing deployment base, and FSF-assigned code.
RDF? Over a decade of collaboration, specs, libraries, tools etc. Deployment across Government (US+UK), Facebook, IMDB, Google, Yahoo, MySpace, NASA etc. etc. Bullet proof royalty free licensing, rather than patent, non attribution. For the record, I'm not opposed to the OStatus choice, but I do feel it slightly inaccurate to say there was nothing else comparable out there. > > > What of all the other discussion on this list regarding other protocols? >> > > They have been very useful and can help to improve OStatus and any Social > additions to it. > > > Personally, it is still my opinion that a higher-level protocol, >> speaking in terms of abstract concepts, and implemented over several >> other protocols, including OStatus and everything else, as transports, >> would be best for this GNU World we're building, and I don't understand >> why OStatus alone is being singled out now. The StatusNet codebase has >> been mature as long as this project has been alive. >> > > OStatus is being singled out now because it has become possible to do so > and because it has momentum from the great work StatusNet have done. > > We have something concrete to work with, build on, and evaluate. > > And if people want something more abstract, we have something to abstract > from. > > - Rob. > >
