Beady Belle Fanchannel
@sabrinkmann @silverpill @grindhold At one point we should think about whether we want AP-based “content negotiation”, i.e. “I support FEP-xxxx, you can send me something of type Foo instead of a Note”.
But maybe that’s a horrible idea because it would make debugging anything even more hell than it already is
silverpill
@Profpatsch @sabrinkmann @grindhold Yes, feature negotiation increases complexity and should be used sparingly. Consequently, I am in favor of duck typing, which means looking for the properties you care about instead of types .
A micro-blog sees content and attributedTo, displays a post.
A FEP-0837 marketplace sees publishes and reciprocal, displays an offer.
silverpill
@Profpatsch @sabrinkmann @grindhold type is not completely useless, it's just an equivalent of a boolean property, for example type: Proposal is another way of saying isProposal: true.
Sometimes types are handy - I don't apply duck typing to activities.
Beady Belle Fanchannel
@silverpill @sabrinkmann @grindhold I guess that’s possible, but it will really blow up the size of objects after a certain point (e.g. if you want to support multiple representations) and makes Type completely useless … plus e.g. if you want to add attachments that mastodon does not understand, you simply cannot.
silverpill
@Profpatsch We were considering switching from hex codes to decimal numbers https://codeberg.org/fediverse/fep/issues/196
A shortcut name seems to have the same downsides as hex code plus it's longer to write
Beady Belle Fanchannel
e.g. FEP-federated-marketplace instead of FEP-0837
Beady Belle Fanchannel
Unrelated: can I lobby you to change FEP names to FEP-human-understandable-shortcut and have the ID just as unique identifier? :)
It’s basically impossible to talk about FEPs with their current hex codes
silverpill
@Profpatsch @sabrinkmann @grindhold I mean the downsides mentioned in the issue, a short name would still be tied to a title. And it is only easier to remember until the moment someone submits another FEP on the same topic and uses FEP-federated-marketplace2 as an identifier.
Beady Belle Fanchannel
@silverpill @sabrinkmann @grindhold Why does it have the same downsides? It makes people actually able to remember them and typing words is easier than typing arbitrary hex (plus it’s harder to typo)
silverpill
@Profpatsch For all kinds of reasons, there are many FEPs with similar titles.
However, if you really want, you can refer to FEPs by their titles or invent short names, nobody is going to stop you. Short codes are useful when administering a large repository of documents, but you don't have to use them if you find them inconvenient.
Beady Belle Fanchannel
@silverpill @sabrinkmann @grindhold Why would anybody do that?
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