Social CG work items

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@rhiaro

Anyway, first I want to ask if we were to create a list of projects that we could consider under the remit of the CG, what to include?

Could you clarify what “under the remit of the CG” means?

Does this mean the CG just acknowledges the many projects and things happening (e.g. ActivityPub Conference or this forum) or does it mean that there should be some process where the Social CG becomes formally involved and exerts control over projects?

@bengo

I definitely think a candidate work item would be some documentation on ‘how to make an extension’, plus some tools to make it easier to define a new class/property and instantly publish documentation for them.

+1 for documentation. I think that “vocabulary extensions” are super important and needs to be done. But I believe there are more fundamental things that first need documentation to use/develop ActivityPub (e.g. Authentication, WebFinger, …).

There has been work on the Fediverse Enhancement Proposals as a medium for documentation and “light-weight” community consensus.

Would the FEPs be something that would fit “under the remit of the CG”?

@bengo

Personally, I think this kind of documentation and tooling would make it easier to make extensions that don’t require amending the as2 or activitypub specs themselves, i.e. it would make it easier for non-linked-data-experts to use linked data as the extension mechanism instead of a CG-governed single namespace of extensions (IMO it’s a fools errand to try to govern a centralized registry/namespace with volunteers. It’s a recipe for bikeshedding.).

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