Configuration Management Meetings

Agendas and Minutes

Agenda for 2012-08-21

• Discuss meeting times
• Feedback on previous OSLC snapshot mechanisms
• Continue discussion of scenarios

Minutes for 2012-08-14

Attending: Nick Crossley, Niklas Larsen, Sandeep Kohli, Mike Loeffler, Peter Hack

• Nick asked all participants to add their names to the Config Mgt wiki.
• The group than reviewed the scenarios, starting with the primary scenario of a cross-tool, cross-domain baseline.
  Mike: baseline creation is like release process - it has a workflow, many people participate, and the release is built up and then snapshotted at some time.
• Sandeep asked if we need closure of links - how do we decide what is part of a config. Nick: a baseline certainly needs to have enuerable contents, potentially found through delegation to the underlying providers. A modifiable configuration might need enumeration of contents, though is not yet completely clear. Mike - a baseline should be just a frozen config.
• Mike - not sure about having any modifiable props on baseline - prefer to handle this by having other modifiable resources for workflow process that point to baselines. Mike volunteered to demo this in PLM context, probably a bit later when more of the group was back from vacation.
• Mike also brought up the topic of variability and effectivity; we need to see how those concepts fit in with configurations, baselines, and their properties.
• Nick asked participants to review old Core workgroup baseline proposals, to see two different past approaches - even though neither of them may be quite what we want today.

Meeting Logistics

Nick Crossley will normally host the telecons. Here are the details.

Participant passcode: 73872710#

Commonly used phone numbers

Additional phone numbers

Additional international dial-in numbers.

Web conference

A web conference is set up only if required - the meeting agenda will indicate this.

• For IBM employees: https://w3.ibm.com/collaboration/meeting/unyte.nsf/join?OpenForm&?schedid=8852436 (IBM intranet authentication required)
• For people outside IBM: https://www.ibm.com/collaboration/meeting/join?schedid=8852436