[oslc-ArchMgmt] Minutes 4-Aug-2011

[James Conallen]

Here are the minutes from today's meeting.  Please read over the topics for
discussion for the future.  We will be needing volunteers to shepherd
specific topics. If you have a new topic to raise (i.e. usage scenarios
that you feel need to be supported), and would like to own it, please let
us know!


Attendance

   Regrets: Tom Piccoli,
   Attendees: Clyde Icuspit, Ian Green, John Crouchley, Peter Yee, Sandeep
   Kohli, Jim Conallen

Minutes

AM 2.0 Specification declared final. no more changes or work will be done
on this particular version of the specification. The only remaining
activity is to get the RDF vocabulary document published on the
open-services.net web site. While the specification will not change, we may
elaborate the examples and scenarios if we find that new adopters are
having problems understanding it.

The remaining time was spent discussing potential topics for discussion
(live or via mail lists).

The list so far:

   Model management with change sets/requests - This scenario originated
   with a scenario that Tom Picolli originally presented to the workgroup
   that describes a workflow of someone making changes to a model (AM
   resource) in the context of change sets and requests that can provide a
   trail of activity and automatic associations to other types of
   resources.

   Resource Type Discovery - As AM service providers offer customer defined
   resource types it would be useful for clients to be able to find out
   exactly what types of resources a provider manages, as well as allow the
   creation of. Presently a client must navigate all the service discovery
   documents looking at all creation and query services and the resource
   type and shapes associated with them. It is not clear how a client would
   know that a provider can manage a given type outside of creation/query.

   Meaningful integrations - While simple linking to generic opaque
   resources provides some benefits, we need to be thinking a little
   deeper. How do we express meaningful relationships where the providers
   know about and make use of deeper semantic content through common
   ontologies and vocabularies.

   Transactions and locking - In the AM domain resources are often highly
   fragmented. When clients are creating or modifying a set of resources en
   masse in a concurrent environment it is very difficult to maintain the
   integrity of the resources. Traditionally we've used transactions and
   locking to help manage this. Is it appropriate to use mechanisms like
   this to help control the integrity of the highly fragmented resources.

   Control processing, generation and script execution - How do clients
   initiate processes that create and modify resources in a long running
   process (ie code generation from models, or simulations).





Thanks,

jim conallen
Rational Design Management (DM) Lead Architect, OSLC AM Lead
jconallen at us.ibm.com
Rational Software, IBM Software Group
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