This page will be used to track the proposals for OpenSocial 3.0!
Each entry should be a link to the Feature request on OpenSocial Resources. These will be what's discussed at the 3.0 Kickoff meeting.
Timeline
The timeline for the 3.0 spec is being discussed. One proposal on the table is for an earlier release in the June 2012 timeframe. The other is to push back the publication of 3.0 to at least 4Q2012. See discussion thread here.
New Proposals
- Completion of the initial Spaces proposal work (Incubate in 2.5)
- Refactor the MediaItems/Albums service and combine with the CMIS work to have a single consistent File service? (related: Issue 1174) (Incubate in 2.5)
- Revised Specification Process
- File upload (how does this relate to multi-part upload)
- Protocol and Data Format Versioning (threads: [1][2]... module versioning as well?)
- Define AppData as a Core Service (not an optional Social Service)
- Adding resources on OpenSocial objects
- Opened Issues:
- Optional, extension query string parameters.
- connectionTimeout and readTimeout Parameters?
- Make shared-script-frame a specified feature.
- Search For OpenSocial Data (see also, Persistent Query Service proposal)
- 3.0 REST API Updates
- Simplification?
- Refactorization?
- Leveraging new emerging HTTP capabilities (PATCH, Link and Prefer headers)
- Updated Person model
- Persistent Query Service REST API
- Proxy Service REST API
- Federated Social Context
- Simplified Discovery
- Microdata Mapping
- Simplify Cache Service
Spec Cleanup
- Simplification and Clarification of entire spec** Drop Core API Spec Document... merge it's stuff more intelligently into the other specifications
- Provide a new Use-Case Driven Primer
- There are many, many more issues... See here for a small sampling... (preview)
Candidates for Deprecation
- Deprecate OAuth 1.0 requirements
- Can we deprecate or at least separate the RPC protocol.. perhaps isolate it for use only with the Javascript API?
- Can we deprecate the XML Format??? (must have replacement API incubating)
- Deprecate media items / albums in lieu of CMIS alignment
- Deprecate makeRequest (must have fixed osapi API incubating)