Change Management Resources Definition

1.0 SPECIFICATION

Introduction

Change Management resources define the change requests and tasks of the software delivery lifecycle. This specification will focus on the definition of a change request, which includes common set of properties, their types and requirements on usage. Implementations can extend this base definition of a change request by contributing their additional properties to the change request resource defintion.

Notation and Conventions

The key words “MUST”, “MUST NOT”, “REQUIRED”, “SHALL”, “SHALL NOT”, “SHOULD”, “SHOULD NOT”, “RECOMMENDED”, “MAY”, and “OPTIONAL” in this document are to be interpreted as described in RFC2119. Domain name examples use RFC2606.

Terminology

Change Request - A request for change to an application or product. Typically a product request for enhancement or a report for a resolution of a product defect.

Change Request Resource

The change request resource properties are not limited to the ones defined in this specification. It is recommended to contribute resource properties in their own unique namespace, not to reuse those defined in these specifications.

XML namespace abbreviations used in this specification:

• oslc_cm - The Open Services for Lifecycle Collaboration Change Management namespace - http://open-services.net/xmlns/cm/1.0 /
• rdf - RDF XML namespace - http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
• dc - The Dublin Core Metadata Terms namespace - http://purl.org/dc/terms/

XML Representation of the Change Request Resource

The media type used for this representation MUST be application/x-oslc-cm-change-request+xml.

Example

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<oslc_cm:ChangeRequest
  xmlns:rdf="http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#"
  xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/terms/"
  xmlns:oslc_cm="http://open-services.net/xmlns/cm/1.0/" 

  rdf:about="http://example.com/bugs/2314">

  <dc:title> Provide import </dc:title>
  <dc:identifier> 2314 </dc:identifier>
  <dc:type> http://myserver/mycmapp/types/Enhancement </dc:type>
  <dc:description>
    Implement the system's import capabilities.
  </dc:description>
  <dc:subject> import, blocker </dc:subject>
  <dc:creator> mailto:aadams@someemail.com </dc:creator>
  <dc:modified> 2008-09-16T08:42:11.265Z </dc:modified>
</oslc_cm:ChangeRequest> 

JSON Representation of the Change Request Resource

The media type used for this representation MUST be application/x-oslc-cm-change-request+json.

Example

{
 "rdf:about": "http://example.com/bugs/2314", 
 "dc:title": "Provide import", 
 "dc:identifier" : "2314",
 "dc:type" : "http://myserver/mycmapp/types/Enhancement",
 "dc:description" : "Implement the system's import capabilities.",
 "dc:subject" : "import, blocker",
 "dc:creator" : "mailto:aadams@someemail.com",
 "dc:modified" : "2008-09-16T08:42:11.265Z"
}