[Oslc-steeringcommittee] Asset Management workgroup seeking approval V2 specification

Tue Aug 14 16:54:14 EDT 2012

Sean/Steve,

    In the Asset work group meeting today, we decided to move the v2 spec 
to the new Wiki - we will declare it final there (and could make changes 
if needed).   Also, the note below was held by the moderator for the 
oslc-steeringcommitee. Can you make sure that that is distributed to the 
mailing list.

tks,

_______________________________________________
Gili Mendel, Ph.D.
Senior Technical Staff Member
IBM Software Group
919.543.6408 

From:
Dr Gili Mendel/Raleigh/IBM
To:
Sean Kennedy/Toronto/IBM at IBMCA, 
Cc:
oslc-assetmgmt at open-services.net, 
oslc-steeringcommittee at open-services.net, Sheehan 
Anderson/Durham/IBM at IBMUS, Steve K Speicher/Raleigh/IBM at IBMUS
Date:
08/10/2012 03:48 PM
Subject:
Re: Asset Management workgroup seeking approval V2 specification

Thank you Sean for guiding us through the new process.

The v2 work of the asset specification have started the end of 2010.  The 
spec. was iterated on though 2011, getting feedback from WG and core 
members.  The final version was announced on the asset work group mailing 
list  as well as the core mailing list around April 2012. We had good 
feedback, and met a few times with core group members and incorporated 
some of the suggestion in the latest version of the specification.   Steve 
also asked for us to create, and contribute an asset OSLC test suite to 
LYO and suggested to have a server implementing the v2 specification 
available to the core team and others. 

RAM 7.5.1.1 implemented the proposed v2 specification (current 
finalization draft), and was made available for downloads from jazz.net. A 
running instance of RAM 7.5.1.1 is available internally at IBM.  Steve had 
mentioned that the core (LYO) test suite were exposed on that instance 
successfully.

The implementation report is here.  As far as we know, RAM is the only 
provider implementers, but there have been many cases where v2 was used by 
various RAM clients.

 The Asset test suite was pushed the LYO Git repository last month.  We 
have not received any specific comments or emails on the suite.  But, we 
have incorporated this suite in our daily FVT automated test runs and they 
are part of the exit test criteria for the RAM product.

_______________________________________________
Gili Mendel, Ph.D. 
Senior Technical Staff Member
IBM Software Group
919.543.6408 

From:
Sean Kennedy/Toronto/IBM at IBMCA
To:
oslc-steeringcommittee at open-services.net, 
Cc:
oslc-assetmgmt at open-services.net
Date:
08/10/2012 11:59 AM
Subject:
Asset Management workgroup seeking approval V2 specification

Hello OSLC Steering Committee:

Dr. Gili Mendel, the lead of the Asset Management workgroup, has indicated 
that the V2 Asset Management specification [1] is ready for approval.
This version of the spec has been considered a Candidate Specification [2] 
since March, and has been implemented in products that are already 
publically available today.

As per the Workgroup Best Practices for Finalization [3], and our 
experiences to date at the StC meetings, I have asked Dr. Mendel to 
provide:
Formal opinion from the Core WG on the technical content of the 
specification.
Implementation reports for the completed implementations.
Formal opinion on the contributed test suites from the Lyo project.

I also understand that there is some urgency to having the specification 
approved before the end of September to simplify matters for new 
implementers who want to integrate with the software that has already 
implemented the current specification. As such, I have created an agenda 
topic on the backlog [4], and propose that it is covered at the September 
StC meeting.

Given the tight timeline, let us try to work by email to get the 
supporting documentation and to handle any additional questions or 
clarifications before the September StC meeting.
In considering this request, the bylaws are very light on what the StC 
considers to approve specifications [5], however, I suggest that the 
evaluation of the technical merits of the work be represented by the 
opinions of the Asset Management workgroup, the Core workgroup, and the 
Lyo project. The StC members would then focus on the implementation 
reports and "broader considerations" (such as industry impact, ease of 
adoption, and even planed publicization).

I hope my suggestions for processing this request make sense to everyone, 
but if they do not, please raise your concerns sooner than later so it can 
still be handled in a timely manner.

Thank you.

  [1]: 
http://open-services.net/bin/view/Main/AssetHome?sortcol=table;up=#2_0_Finalization
  [2]: http://open-services.net/bylaws/#workgroups under "Approving 
Specifications"
  [3]: 
http://open-services.net/participate/workgroup-best-practices/#finalization
  [4]: 
http://open-services.net/wiki/steering-committee/StC-Agenda-Topics-Backlog/#operations
  [5]: http://open-services.net/bylaws/#steering-committee under "Duties 
and Responsibilities > FINAL APPROVAL OF SPECIFICATIONS"
Sean Kennedy 

Phone: 905-413-4385 (Internal: 313-4385)
Fax: 905-413-4850 (to my attention)
Email: seanpk at ca.ibm.com
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Operations Coordinator for the OSLC Steering Committee
Open Services for Lifecycle Collaboration
OSLC Community Development Leader for IBM Rational
IBM Rational Software - IBM Toronto Software Lab

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Hugo
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