Should globbing be included as a server-side feature?

[dmitrizagidulin]

Currently, the much-contentious Globbing mechanism is marked 'at risk' on the existing spec.
As part of the 1.0 spec we should decide its fate (either continue marking it at at-risk, or, preferably, decide one way or another).

Related issues:

• Remove globbing from the spec solid-spec#145
• Clarify and detail the definition of globbing to only apply to folders solid-spec#148
• Remove globbing solid-spec#151
• Consider whether oa:PreferContainedDescriptions could replace globbing solid-spec#149
• Specify exactly what globbing patterns are allowed solid-spec#147
• could response with globbed container return a dataset (quads)? solid#115

[RubenVerborgh]

1.0 should either include or exclude features; not have any at risk.

As for globbing, I strongly feel we should exclude it for reasons mentioned in the above threads, which also link to a 10-line client-side alternative I wrote.

[dmitrizagidulin]

My vote is: +1 to what @RubenVerborgh said.

[justinwb]

Agree on exclusion. IMO - this has lingered for a long time when there are legitimate alternatives and it’s a good time to move from at risk to excluded in the next major version.

[RubenVerborgh]

Then I hereby conclude to not include globbing, unless any objections come up. (Since there is no text to be reviewed for not adding a feature, there is nothing more we can do process-wise.)

[kjetilk]

Moved to "Done". IIRC; it is possible to automated that in the project board.