[oslc-cm] OSLC Change Management 2.0 Specification is in Convergence and Ready for further Review

[Frank Schophuizen]

The following remark on the
CmSpecificationV2<http://open-services.net/bin/view/Main/CmSpecificationV2>section
is about the
*State Predicates* section, in particular this sentence

"Status" specifies the location of a Change Request in a workflow
>

The spec does define the oslc_cm:status property of a Change Request
Resource, but there is no definition of a workflow. The introduction does
explain part of the problem though in:

The problem is that different CM service providers use different properties
> (or even a set of properties) and different values to represent the change
> request's state. Even providing access to meta data does not help because
> knowing all possible state values does not reveal the semantics of a state.
>

My remark is that even if you don't know the semantics of each individual
status value, shouldn't there be at least a way to interrogate the server
about the workflow. In other words, what good is it to know a location if
you don't know the coordinate system for locations?

Frank.

On Fri, May 21, 2010 at 8:50 PM, Steve K Speicher <sspeiche at us.ibm.com>wrote:

> I'm pleased to announce that the OSLC Change Management Working Group [1]
> has declared the 2.0 Draft Specification [2] as entering the Convergence
> phase targeting Finalization by June 23, 2010.
>
> During Convergence these tasks need to be performed:
> - Community review of current current draft [2] and any issues raised [3]
> - Implementation feedback incorporated into draft
> - Workgroup resolving issues raised [3]
> - Collection of workgroup contributor patent non-assert covenants [4]
>
> Please send feedback directly to oslc-cm at open-services.net or logging your
> issue at [3]
>
> My thanks goes out to the working group and community who have worked hard
> to reach this phase.
>
> If there are any questions on this process, please contact me.  Regards,
> Steve Speicher | IBM Rational Software | (919) 254-0645
>
> [1] - http://open-services.net/bin/view/Main/CmMeetings05192010
> [2] - http://open-services.net/bin/view/Main/CmSpecificationV2
> [3] - http://open-services.net/bin/view/Main/CmSpecV2Issues
> [4] - http://open-services.net/bin/view/Main/CmSpecificationCovenantV2
>
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