[annotator-dev] [DRAFT at 2] Apache Incubator Proposal

Thu Jun 9 14:54:27 UTC 2016

Hey Robert!

Great questions. It's really up to us--those interested in the ASF process, proposal, thing--to decide what gets built. The current #1 idea is just a core we all share and something that would be most widely useful. There's no reason we need to stop there however.

The actual proposal to the ASF mentions more than that, in fact:
https://wiki.apache.org/incubator/AnnotatorProposal

In the "Initial Source" section there's some additional ideas around Web Annotation Protocol server code and certainly there's a host of Annotator 1.2.x and even some Annotator 2.x code we could work from.

Mostly, we need to determine who is interested and available to be part of this process, and what they have and would like to contribute.

Certainly anything on that list is a good candidate!

Thoughts?
Benjamin

-----Original Message-----
From: Robert Knight [mailto:robertknight at gmail.com] 
Sent: Wednesday, June 8, 2016 5:58 PM
To: Benjamin Young <byoung at bigbluehat.com>
Cc: annotator-dev at lists.okfn.org
Subject: Re: [annotator-dev] [DRAFT at 2] Apache Incubator Proposal

Hello Ben,

Thank-you for kicking things off. I'm not familiar with the Apache Incubator process so I'd like to spend some time looking at the material to understand it properly. One thing in retrospect I wasn't really clear on when talking with you at the hackday is how this would end up relating to different parts of the Hypothesis open source project.

Based on the discussions I had at iAnnotate and from posts I've seen elsewhere on the mailing list, there are a number of components in Hypothesis that different parties might like to re-use:

1. Libraries for anchoring specific types of selectors (quotes, positions, ranges) in web pages 2. The combined logic for anchoring a web annotation (with multiple
selectors) in a web page
3. Logic for anchoring annotations in other types of content (eg. PDF, EPUB) 4. The Hypothesis client for displaying and editing annotations (the pane that shows up on the right-hand side of the page when Hypothesis is activated). In two cases users wanted to use this with custom document viewers (maps, books, large scanned images) 5. The Hypothesis "memex" service for storing and retrieving annotations 6. A JS client library for communicating with the Hypothesis service (or anything with a compatible API)

It sounds like (1) would be the initial submission to the proposed Apache project, but what about the others?

Kind Regards,
Rob.

On 26 May 2016 at 20:33, Benjamin Young <byoung at bigbluehat.com> wrote:
> Hi all!
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> Last July I wrote up a proposal for potentially setting up an Apache 
> Software Foundation incubator project for the community and code here.
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> The goal then (as now) was to bring all the interested parties into a 
> shared, collaborative space where we could continue the vision of and 
> progress on Annotator and related code.
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> Last week at I Annotate and the hackathon that followed, there was 
> general support and encouragement to pursue such an idea in hopes of 
> stabilizing the community here and bringing in more interest.
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> To that end, I’ve done a (somewhat heavy) revision of the original proposal:
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> https://github.com/openannotation/annotator/wiki/Apache-Incubation-Pro
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> This revision focuses more on our diverse community and working to 
> ensure its longevity.
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> Give that proposal a quick skim, and send in your feedback!
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> Cheers!
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> Benjamin
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