[oslc-ArchMgmt] OSLC Architecture Management minutes posted for 2-Feb-2012

[James Conallen]

I've posted the minutes of today's discussion of our planned 2012
priorities and activities.

   Atendees: Parham Vasaiely, Vishwanath Ramaswamy, John Crouchley, Alan
   Yeung, Steve Speicher, Clyde D. Icuspit, Gary Johnston, Jim Conallen


   Minutes:
   Steve got us up to date on Core activities. He talked about work being
   done with the W3C? recently in a workshop, with some of the core link
   life cycle concepts of resources (i.e. ui preview). OSLC Query and
   shapes however were out of scope. He discussed some of the future topics
   for core (found on the wiki).

   The Core is moving to a model where the individual domain specifications
   would evolve independently instead of trying to release with the core or
   other specs.

   Jim asked if there were any topics that our workgroup should avoid and
   Steve indicated that for the most part our work in all topics is
   appreciated, especially use case scenarios. Even prototype specs could
   be fruitful and useful as a means of explaning our concerns to the other
   workgoups.

   Parham, Clyde and John indicated that traceability and variablility are
   inmportant topics for us to discuss. John in particular pointed out the
   need to be able to get a the delta of changes (either as a first class
   resource or with links to the before and after change). This topic will
   feature prominantly in our future discussions. Jim took as an action
   item to reach out to those active in the discussion to document specific
   use case scenarios. They were forewarned :-)

   Gray correctly pointed out that the topic of long running
   transformations is a cross workgoup topic, however we can continue to
   work it in our workgoup, and then coorrdinate with the Automation and
   core workgroups.

   Parham and Vishy expressed an interest in the importance of the common
   properties and common types topics. Since this is a potentially long
   topic, we should try to do a lot of the work offline and schedule a
   meeting discussion when sufficient work has been completed on it.



Thanks,

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