[oslc-core] Splitting up the Core

[Dave]

FYI...  I have completed to split-up.

See also: http://open-services.net/bin/view/Main/OslcCoreSpecification

- Dave



On Mon, May 10, 2010 at 11:29 AM, Dave <snoopdave at gmail.com> wrote:
> From the start, I wanted one Core spec document because the old
> broken-up OSLC v1 specs seemed to hard to follow, and hard to print
> out for offline reading because there were so many parts. But now, the
> Core spec seems too long, difficult to edit and too long to print out,
> which is a shame because the "core" part of the Core spec is only
> about 30 pages.
>
> To deal with this issue, we have already moved representation examples
> into appendices at the end of the document. Now, I would like to move
> the appendices out to separate wiki pages. Scott Bosworth and I did
> some work to make this happen, as an experiment, and I think it works
> well. You can see what this new split-up version of the Core spec
> looks like here:
>
>   http://open-services.net/bin/view/Main/OSLCCoreSpecDRAFTSplitCore
>
> And the rest of the pieces here:
>
>   http://open-services.net/bin/view/Main/OslcCoreSpecification
>
> The core part of the Core spec is now about 30 pages, easier to digest
> and easier on trees if you want to print it out. Note that we also
> moved Query Syntax out to a separate page, because there is a
> possibility that we might want to finalize later than the rest of the
> Core spec -- we'll talk about that in the workgroup before substantive
> changes are made.
>
> I plan to drop the old single-page spec and start working in this
> newly reorganized spec as soon as today. Any objections to this or
> suggestions on how this new arrangement might be improved?
>
> Thanks,
> - Dave
>