[Oslc-Automation] OSLC Core WG review request: OSLC Actions & OSLC Automation 2.1

[Martin P Pain]

Both the OSLC Actions 2.0 specification draft and the OSLC Automation 
2.1 specification draft have entered convergence. I would like to 
request a review of these specifications from the OSLC Core WG. (I will 
also notify the new TC at OASIS.) 


THE SPECIFICATIONS: 

The Actions specification is about advertising on any RDF resource any 
actions or operations that can be executed against that resource. For 
example, a change management request can advertise available state 
transitions, and deployed IT resources can advertise a "teardown" or 
"stop" action. 

The OSLC Actions primer and specification are here: 
http://open-services.net/wiki/automation/OSLC-Automation-Primer/#OSLC-Actions 

http://open-services.net/wiki/core/Actions-2.0

The Automation specification has been extended for three scenarios: 
taking advantage of OSLC Actions to support the "teardown" or "stop" 
example mentioned above; execution environments; and using Automation 
Requests as templates. 

The OSLC Automation 2.1 specification is here, with changes temporarily 
marked "This is new for 2.1": 
http://open-services.net/wiki/automation/OSLC-Automation-Specification-Version-2.1/ 


In both specifications there may still be a few lines of text in red, 
which are notes to reviewers, or final items to clean up. 


WHERE TO START: 

Reviewing the Actions specification, being a new specification, is a 
larger task than the Automation changes. Also, most of the changes in 
Automation use the Actions spec. This is why I have listed Actions first 
in this request. 

The best place to start reviewing the Actions specification is the 
primer: 
http://open-services.net/wiki/automation/OSLC-Automation-Primer/#OSLC-Actions 


(This is currently in the Automation primer, as it was developed mostly 
by the Automation WG. This can be moved to the Core primer, or its own 
primer, if that is more appropriate.) 


VOCAB: 

The Actions specification adds some terms to the Core vocabulary. I will 
attach an updated RDF/XML vocab document (which should be accessible via 
the archives), but they are listed in plain text here:
http://open-services.net/wiki/core/Actions-2.0#Changes-to-OSLC-Core-vocabulary


SCENARIOS: 

Another place you could start is by looking at the scenarios that these 
specifications enable. 

The 3 scenarios enabled by the Actions specification are here: 
http://open-services.net/wiki/core/Actions-2.0-Scenarios/ 

The 3 scenarios enabled by the Automation 2.1 specification are here: 
http://open-services.net/wiki/automation/Automation-Scenarios-v2.1/ 


TIME SCALE: 

Our expectation has been to leave two weeks for the Core WG review. If 
you are interested in looking at these specifications but do not believe 
you will be able to do so in that time frame, please let me know. 

Thank you,

Martin Pain
Software Developer - Green Hat
Rational Test Virtualization Server, Rational Test Control Panel
Open Services for Lifecycle Collaboration - Automation WG joint chair

E-mail: martinpain at uk.ibm.com
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