Time:
1:00PM Eastern US (contact
MichaelFiedler if you'd like to participate)
The Automation meetings alternate times each meeting to accommodate the global team.
Agenda
* Reoccurring agenda items:
* Main agenda items:
- Specification Version Number
- Draft Spec discussion: AutoSpecificationV1
- Discussion of updates based on comments received so far
- General comments on the spec
- Next meetings:
Minutes
Attending: Michael Fiedler, John Arwe, Paul
McMahan? , Lucas Panjer, Pramod Chandoria, Vaibhav Srivastava, Charles Rankin, Max Vohlken
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LucasPanjer talked through the Mylyn "Build Request" scenario
- Need to construct UI in Eclipse via SWT - not likely to use delegated UI
- Feels the new parameter definition proposal meets the scenario requirements
* Primary discussion was around the new [[AutoParmDefProposal][parameter definition] proposal
- General agreement that oslc:Property is a good fit
- Some concerns that it adds complexity for service providers and consumers beyond exposing simple name/value pairs
- Additional concern on Resource Shape of the Automation Plan. TODO: Create sample resource shape and make sure there are no recursion issues
- Concerns around extensibility
- Service providers can extend as they see fit - use their own namespace for new attributes and expose them in shape documents
- Concerns around parameter dependencies
- Example: At first level user selects Windows, second level they select XP
- Service provider logic or delegated UIs needed in V1 to handle these types of dependencies.
- TODO: Update draft specification to adopt this proposal
* Version number of the specification
- Core guidance is to number the spec after the Core spec it is based on. Automation would be V2 under this guidance
- Several workgroup members felt this was confusing and might cause problems if Automation needed a new specification before the next Core spec - i.e. need "dot" releases
- TODO: MichaelFiedler will send an e-mail to the workgroup list to solicit opinions.
Next meeting: 16 February at 10AM Eastern US Time