The Automation meetings alternate times each meeting to accommodate the global team.

Agenda

* Main agenda items:

• Asynchronous automation scenario - feedback from the OSLC Core workgroup
  • Discuss options for attributes in the artifacts which enable service providers and consumers to discover capabilities
  • AutoSynchAttributeOptions
• Need for sub-domain in Automation Plan - where did the group end up on this?
• Specification status and Implementation plans
• Next meeting:
  • Thursday, 31 May at 1PM Eastern US - time change for this week only

Minutes

Attending: Michael Fiedler, Jing Qian, Paul McMahan? , Vaibhav Srivastava, Pramod Chandoria, John Arwe, Charles Rankin

* Primary discussion was of AutoSyncAttribute? Options

• Quickly reviewed first 2 options
  • attribute on Request only
  • no attributes - client must handle either asynchronous or synchronous results
• More in depth discussion on the newest option
  • attribute on both Plan and Request
  • enables scenarios for both flexible and restricted consumers and service providers
  • removes ambiguity on how a particular request will be executed
  • highlights the need to provide guidance on how synchronous style can be implemented
• Next steps
  • Update spec to provisionally include the description of these attributes and how they are processed
  • Get additional reviews
  • Get guidance from core on whether these attributes are appropriate as experimental