Re: [sdd] Thoughts on glossary updates

[Jay Nash <jay@o-ms.com>]

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I think these are all good suggestions and propose that the SDD Glosary
follow suit.
Any objections?
Jay

Hiro Kishimoto wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> Based on experiences of our GGF OGSA Glossary development,
> the following is the food for thoughts;
> 
> (a) Define nouns only, not verb or adjective
>     If necessary, Give "See <noun form of term>."
> 
> (b) Make words or phrases in "italics" which are themselves defined
>     in the glossary.
> 
> (c) Normative or informative
>     I think glossary is informative instead of normative.
>     I guess the following text on page 4 of the current draft comes
>     from standard OASIS document template and should be fixed.
> 
>     "All text is normative unless otherwise noted."
> 
> FYI: OGSA Glossary's URL;
> http://www.ggf.org/documents/GFD.44.pdf
> 
> Thanks,
> ----
> Hiro Kishimoto
> 
> Christine Draper wrote:
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> I did a skim of the requirements document versus the glossary and
>> found the
>> following.
>>
>> Used without much context, probably need a glossary definition:
>> payload
>> component
>> target environment (vs target)
>> verify/verification
>> rollback
>> undo
>> repair
>> update, upgrade (used mainly as verbs but defined as nouns - maybe
>> this is
>> OK)
>> apply (application) of fixes
>>
>> Deployment lifecycle operations: planning, installation, configuration,
>> maintenance, upgrade, migration and uninstallation   (should be same list
>> of terms in glossary, and should define each term, consistently as
>> either a
>> noun or a verb)
>>
>> Possibly should be defined, but likely have enough context:
>> feature
>> metadata
>> localization
>> change plan
>>
>> discreet units => individual (discrete) packages?
>>
>> Regards,
>> Christine
>>
>> Senior Technical Staff Member
>> IBM, 11501 Burnet Road, Mail Point 901-6B10
>> Austin, TX 78758
>> 1-512-838-3482 tl 678-3482
> 
> 
> 
> 

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