Socialwg/2016-07-05-minutes
Social Web Working Group Teleconference
05 Jul 2016
See also: IRC log
Attendees
- Present
- annbass, rhiaro, sandro, dmitriz, csarven, eprodrom, aaronpk, wilkie, ben_thatmustbeme, akuckartz, Benjamin_Young, KevinMarks, tsyesika, tantek
- Regrets
- cwebber2
- Chair
- eprodrom
- Scribe
- ben_thatmustbeme
Contents
eprodrom: okay, lets get started
welcome new IEs
<scribe> new person Julian (sp?)
<aaronpk> Julien
sandro: he is in the process of moving this week
<wilkie> I'm glad julien is finally here haha
eprodrom: we will defer the welcome to next week
<aaronpk> https://twitter.com/julien51
approval of last week's minutes
<eprodrom> PROPOSAL: approve https://www.w3.org/wiki/Socialwg/2016-06-28-minutes as minutes for 2016 06 28 meeting
<tantek> +1 I have reviewed
<eprodrom> +1
<rhiaro> +1
<wilkie> +1
<tsyesika> +1
eprodrom: please do a quick review
<annbass> +1
+1
RESOLUTION: approve https://www.w3.org/wiki/Socialwg/2016-06-28-minutes as minutes for 2016 06 28 meeting
<tantek> (I'm particularly interested if the editorial change to AS2 was accepted)
closed issues for AS2
eprodrom: as we take as2 to CR, one of the things we have to show is that any comments on spec have been resolved to the commenter's satisfaction. Doesn't mean they have to be happy with the results, but at least they acknowledge the issue was dealt with
... amy has been following up with everyone
rhiaro: after last week we gave them another week. At this point everyone has had at least 2 weeks. in my messages I said that any silence we would just close them
<rhiaro> https://www.w3.org/wiki/Socialwg/Addressing_Issues#ActivityStreams_2.0
rhiaro: I would propose we finalize by close all the remaining as commentor timed out
eprodrom: amy, you said everyone had two weeks?
rhiaro: they had one week, and then we extended them more
eprodrom: do we need to agree to close them out?
sandro: I don't think so ... (couldn't hear)
<wilkie> that sounds more than reasonable
<wilkie> rhiaro does such good work
eprodrom: as editor i think we have the concensus to close them all out
<annbass> Sandro -- can't hear you .. Or very barely (can others?)
eprodrom: lets talk about the PR from bengo
<eprodrom> https://github.com/w3c/activitystreams/pull/329
<wilkie> sandro is very quiet yeah
eprodrom: here is the PR itself and the PR was merged but have not pushed a new version of the WD
... i will put those other changes on the agenda at the end
... at least with repect to that PR, it has been closed
sandro: the most important part is there be a draft that is ready for CR
... then if we have approval it will go out
eprodrom: explain to me processwise, would that be a WD that says CR, or an ED that says CR
sandro: neither, its a document that says CR
... its as if you were going to do a publication through echidna, but it doesn't handle CR
eprodrom: i can do that this week.
sandro: it would be great if we could have it before the meeting tomorrow
eprodrom: that sounds fine
... since we are on AS2
... i wonder if we could stay on as2 for a moment
rhiaro: i have another thing on as2 issues
<rhiaro> https://github.com/w3c/activitystreams/issues/53
rhiaro: dret raised an issue, we discussed last week, but you weren't here evan, just wanted to make sure you saw it
... its editorial so we can deal with it later, but just wanted to call your attention to it
eprodrom: i've just read this, let me just review the core doc very quickly
<sandro> aaronpk, can you get me a July 12 CR doc, too ?
<aaronpk> for micropub?
rhiaro: its more just a clarification point
<sandro> yes
eprodrom: it makes sense as people trying to push arrays through AS2 validator, but it would need to be a collection
... i'm okay resolving this as some text calling that it
rhiaro: sandro, do we need all issues closed before CR call?
<aaronpk> yes, i have some minor edits to publish so i will want to publish a new WD first
sandro: no, as long as its clear its editorial
eprodrom: do we need a resolution of any type on that?
... i'm going to reopen this and i'll resolve it after the meeting
<sandro> not if the commenter is happy
<ben_thatmustbeme> i don't think we need a resolution on it
eprodrom: i can just resolve this quickly after
... i'd like to talk about a couple of other items that were closed out
<eprodrom> https://github.com/w3c/activitystreams/issues/328
eprodrom: first is 328, which is test documents of known invalid documents
<eprodrom> https://github.com/w3c/activitystreams/tree/master/test/fail
eprodrom: i created about 20 documents that would be useful for testing failures, bad documents
... they are in a subdirectory, specifically called out as failure ones
... they are all valid json, but not valid as2 docs
<eprodrom> https://github.com/w3c/activitystreams/tree/master/test
eprodrom: the other issue i closed out this week was a link to the validator, its now in the readme for the test directory
... i think that closes those two out
... i just wanted to call those out here and see if they were satisfactory to aaronpk and sandro
... if so thats all we needed to discuss for as2 today. i
<eprodrom> https://rawgit.com/csarven/ldn/master/index.html
linked data notifications
rhiaro: over the last few months we have been working on a LD notifications spec, it sends JSON-LD objects around
... we'd like to bring it to the WG as an ED and see how far we can get with it
<aaronpk> eprodrom++ for the AS2 failure examples. looks great
<Loqi> eprodrom has 34 karma
eprodrom: this is a generalized notification protocol. Is it within our charter? is it something within our sphere of work to work on?
<tantek> +1 on charter question
eprodrom: would another group like LDP group or a community group more accurate?
rhiaro: its not LDP, we leverage it, and its similar, but its not. You don't need to be a full LDP implmentation to be a receiver
eprodrom: i guess my question was more about, it seems to be a general notification protocol, is it right for the socialWG to do?
... i wanted to just hear from the authors what they think of that
rhiaro: i think it is, its compatible with activity pub, its also compatible with the annotations protocol, which is a social use-case
... and any other kinds of social interactions. the actual content of the notification is really broad
sandro: there is a permathread between me and melvin about him wanting webmentions to be something it isn't. I think this is more of what he wants. People come to webmention saying 'can i use this' and they can, but have to do some things. Its a little more straight forward if you have an authentication method already. Also the other thing is that webmention doesn't have that is, that there is some way to fetch those messages after that fact
<Zakim> tantek, you wanted to ask about permathread
tantek: question to the authors, does this proposal address melvin's concerns? would this resolve that permathread?
rhiaro: we've run it by melvin and yes
... he has said it looks good
tantek: well thats a good way of resolving that issue
eprodrom: is there an issue on webmention's issue tracker that we can point to?
<aaronpk> https://github.com/aaronpk/webmention/issues/51
eprodrom: something we could resolve there
<melvster> my suggestion was to write out an example of what webmention would look like in JSON-LD
<melvster> to that extend I have written out two proposals
eprodrom: maybe we could just explicitly note it in that issue
tantek: but this isn't webmention right?
sandro: yes, but i think this is what melvin wanted to turn webmention in to, but it isn't
tantek: the question is from the process perspective, does this satisfy the commenter?
sandro: i don't htink he has said yet
eprodrom: at our last f2f, we discussed the difficulty we will have to close out the existing documents. does it make sense to take on a new document this late in the game?
... i'm not objecting to this particular doc. I am saying in general for any new documents
... is it ok for us to take on a new document at this time in our lifecycle
rhiaro: i would say, we are bringing more resources in from the solid end in to work on this, so its adding new resources not just more workload
<melvster> rhiaro++
<Loqi> rhiaro has 210 karma
tantek: i think when i made that argument was when Arnaud pointed out that we don't have time to deal with lots of different documents in the group, but we are at least trying to spread around the authorship
rhiaro: this is something i would be working on anyway
tantek: the only real resource this takes up then may be just telcon and f2f time
... if we can resolve that, we can resolve the resource issue
eprodrom: i think we need the editors to at least recognize its possible we don't finish the document as we only have 6 months left
rhiaro: we are certainly prepared to publish as a note if all else fails
tantek: that poses a good follow up then, do you have an intended date for CR?
... i think we had said that anything this late we would push toward note track to make sure to set expectations inside and outside of the group
<annbass> can we let them TRY for CR-track, and then back up to Note?
tantek: do you think this is simple enough to get to CR that quickly?
rhiaro: we are pretty sure we can get our specs to CR by lisbon right?
... we are aiming for that, but if we have to drop to note track thats fine
... its easier to go from rec to note than note to rec right?
sandro: it depends on implementations flocking to it or not
tantek: i think that makes sense. and we continue to focus on any new docs we bring to the group, we let them know its more to keep it to note track
... with PuSH its very well known and has been implmented so the process is very different
rhiaro: we have implemented a lot of it and we have leaned on LDP for a lot of the work, and its just discovery of endpoints and such
... for LDN we wrote it around the implementations we have had for some time
tantek: i think that just leaves the question evan raised about, is it in our charter?
... what section does this fall under
rhiaro: federation
... possibly social depending on how you use it
tantek: you said this is compatible with activity pub, the way you just described it could be client to server or server to server. what does this add beyond activity pub?
rhiaro: activitypub specifically uses json format, thats just a specialized form of LDN. we do content-type negotiation so you can send in other formats
tantek: so its more general then AP?
rhiaro: yes, AP would be a more specialized case of this
tantek: thats one of the concerns thats been raised to date, is that we need to have some kind of story of when we want one or the other
... this seems like its even more confusing of when to use one or the other
rhiaro: my hope with this is take some of the work away from the AP side. We don't want it to be reliant on this spec
... AP has the additional info on what to do after you receive the notification. thats out of scope of this spec
tantek: i think i get what you are saying, i'm in favor of modularizatino in general but i would like to hear from cwebber2
... and how does this impact getting AP to CR
... if this is going to slow AP at risk, i'm a bit more concerned
... i accept that you are working on fitting this all together
... is he worried or not?
rhiaro: i don't know
... he's not on the call today
tantek: i'd like to hear from him before we accept this as an ED
<eprodrom> tsyesika: are you on the call?
<tsyesika> Whilst chris is handling the splitting of the documentation, I don't think it'd put us at risk
eprodrom: that puts us in a little of a bind time wize, but i would like ot hear from cwebber2 or tsyesika on this before we accept it
<tsyesika> I'd support this document
eprodrom: if we have a thumbs up from editors there from AP, i think its time for a proposal
<akuckartz> tsyesika++
<Loqi> tsyesika has 16 karma
<eprodrom> PROPOSAL: accept https://rawgit.com/csarven/ldn/master/index.html as new Editor's Draft for federation protocol
<melvster> +1
<akuckartz> +1
<tsyesika> +1
<annbass_> +1
<csarven> +1
<dmitriz> +1
<rhiaro> +1
<bigbluehat> +1
<wilkie> +1
<tantek> thanks rhiaro for answering all the questions - no objections
<sandro> (I don't think it's a question of taking on an additional risk so much as splitting the risk along multiple paths, which might decease the overall risk)
<sandro> +1
eprodrom: if there are any objections to that working please say so now before the immediate+1s
<eprodrom> PROPOSAL: accept https://rawgit.com/csarven/ldn/master/index.html as new Editor's Draft for federation protocol
<melvster> +1
<eprodrom> +0
0, i haven't read the document
<rhiaro> +1
<csarven> +1
<akuckartz> +1
<annbass_> +1
<aaronpk> +0
eprodrom: don't need to vote again, minor change there
RESOLUTION: accept https://rawgit.com/csarven/ldn/master/index.html as new Editor's Draft for federation protocol
<aaronpk> melvster, does accepting this document close webmention #51 for you then?
eprodrom: we have mostly +1s and some +0s. I'm a bit concerned about the timeline, but accepting we may not take this to CR
tantek: i think aaronpk had a good quesiton on IRC, does this resolve melvster's concerns on webmention
<melvster> aaronpk, if there is a way to map a webmention to a linked data notification, yes
<tsyesika> I read the LDN document, it looks good, similar to what we'd be doing and if it can get that to CR I'd be happy for AP to point to it as the general mechanism that we'd specify how to do it (as amy explained)
eprodrom: i think this does close this out unless there is something else to discuss about it
... it looks like its a yes
document status
<annbass_> Thanks a lot rhiaro (and sarven and whoever else)
eprodrom: do we have any updates on document status
tantek: we were about to publish PTD FPWD and JF2 FPWD but we ran in to apublication holiday we didn't know about
sandro: maybe plan for doing them at the same time on the others, the 12th?
tantek: thats fine with me
ben_thatmustbeme: thats fine with me too
eprodrom: tsyesika any updates on AP?
... she's on IRC actually, so i'll give her a pass
<tsyesika> I've been busy with a family situation this week sorry
eprodrom: is there any other business?
other business
tantek: upcoming F2F in lisbon
<annbass_> How many think they'll be in Lisbon? (Curious)
tantek: i think we have a wiki page for that, i hope so
<annbass_> I plan to go
<tantek> https://www.w3.org/wiki/Socialwg/2016-09-22
<tsyesika> I'm going to try to go but I've unfortunately not booked anything yet
tantek: we should start collecting, 'going', 'interested in going' etc
... so we know what size room to ask for
sandro: during the f2f amy and i committed but we had a budget issue and hopefully we will know in the next day or two
tantek: hopefully people can add themselves to that wiki page
eprodrom: thanks everyone for coming
<wilkie> thanks all
<eprodrom> trackbot, end meeting