On 1/13/21 12:35 PM, Dave Cridland wrote: > > > On Wed, 13 Jan 2021 at 18:24, Sam Whited <[email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: > > I'd like to recommend that we do not publish this spec in its current > form. The XML community has the tendency to over-engineer everything to > try and reuse schemas as much as possible which just makes things more > difficult for no reason. This is a handful of simple key/value pairs, it > doesn't need to use RDF or whatever the "schema" prefix means. > > If this spec is moved forward please consider either adding a JSON > representation since this is mostly for the web and is effectively just > a set of key-value pairs which probably makes JSON a better format for > storing it, or a simplified XML representation that can be completely > defined in this document and exists in a single namespace. > > > I was under the impression that DOAP was an existing deployed > specification, and that the use of RDF/XML wasn't unexpected. > > In particular, it appears that both Mozilla and PyPI seem to use it, so > assuming reuse of existing standards is our thing - and presumably that > is exactly our thing - then use of DOAP seems like the right choice.
It's unclear to me whether we actually use DOAP at Mozilla, but I'm double-checking. Peter _______________________________________________ Standards mailing list Info: https://mail.jabber.org/mailman/listinfo/standards Unsubscribe: [email protected] _______________________________________________
