Meetings/2020-12-16 solid-team

Solid Team Meeting

December 15th, 2020

Present

• Justin B
• Jeff Z
• Vincent T
• Marrelle B
• Sarven C
• Oz O
• Dmitri Z
• Nicolas S
• Jackson M

Agenda

• Editor Update (Spec and Panels)
  • Move to TR/ , TR/ecosystem , TR/protocol
• Solidproject.org Update
  • Publish a URI Persistence Policy: https://github.com/solid/solidproject.org/issues/247
  • Document solidproject.org's URI Template: https://github.com/solid/solidproject.org/issues/249
• Solidcommunity.net Update

Minutes

Editorial update

• Technical Reports (TRs) will be hosted under `https://solidproject.org/TR/`
  • Note that the ecosystem spec is split from the core protocol one.
  • Current spec: https://solid.github.io/specification/ -> https://solidproject.org/TR/
• Being commited to permanent URLs require to have control over the domain, and to have an explicit persistence policy.
• The ToS of solidproject.org could include
  • the persistence policy
  • information about how personal data is processed regarding the newsletter
  • liability notice / licensing
• Related persistence policy for solidcommunity.net: https://github.com/solid/solidcommunity.net/issues/12

solidproject.org update

• Satisfied with netlify for preview, will also use it for production deployment
  • Action item: Check what are the limitations/pricing for Netlify/GH pages
  • Action item: @Oz to look up why the Inrupt docs site (also a static site) did not go with Netlify
• Current focus: the About page, in order to give a better understancing of what solid is beyond the description ogiven on the home page.
  • Perspective on the spec and its roadmap, insight on what's happening...

About Page PR - https://github.com/solid/solidproject.org/pull/427 Deploy Preview - https://deploy-preview-427--solidproject-dot-org.netlify.app/about

• IdP listing generated from RDF in the repo. If that works, other parts of the website could follow the same pattern: app listing, ...
  • That gets GH social interaction, RDF interop, and generated HTML readability
  • Potential library to do that: https://github.com/AKSW/jekyll-rdf
  • Action item: add the current issues to the newsletter (Vincent to assess the work involved)

Panel updates

Authz panel

• Draft expected in the coming weeks
• A lot of discussion around ACP
  • Requirement have been collected
• https://github.com/solid/authorization-panel/pull/152

• Application determining access privileges: https://solid.github.io/authorization-panel/wac-ucr/#uc-client-determine-access-privileges
• Action item: Make issue for ACP to address WAC-Allow compatibility (cross-compatibility?)

Interop panel

• Progress on shapetrees and shapetree validation. Submission is imminent.
• App interoperability spec

Open questions

• Justin proposes to move these meetings from Zoom to Jitsi. Everyone agrees.