BPEL4People F2F Issue Summary

[Dave Ings <ings@ca.ibm.com>]

Here's the summary of the issues we discussed this week during our F2F. Formal minutes will follow shortly.

All New issues opened prior to the meeting's end were discussed and move to Open state.

Resolved Issues (are now referred to editing subcommittee)

4 Declaration of imported LPG not mentioned in B4P spec
5 Discrepancy between spec and schema regarding LPG attribute
8 Are string literals required for part, task, and LPG name in HT functions?
9 ht:getTaskID() is not defined

10 More control needed for the propagation of attachments (need final resolution text added to JIRA)
11 Initialization of process generic human roles in b4p
13 Merge ws-humantask-context.xsd and ws-humantask-protocol.xsd into a single file
17 Define Conformance Targets
18 Task Priority is underspecified
21 Precedence of spec vs schema files
22 Make b4p:peopleAssignments optional

Open Issues

6 Does ht:getLogicalPeopleGroup() cause an LPG to evaluate?

12 Value of genericHumanRole in setGenericHumanRole operation call should be defined (depends on resolution of #20)
14 Need to provide access to the Outcome field
15 What is the purpose of the optional task name param in ht:getLogicalPeopleGroup() (depends on resolution of #6)
16 Revise Specs to use RFC2119 Keywords
19 Using process variables in constellations 1 and 2
20 Extensibility of BPEL4People and WS-HumanTask
23 (Re-)Evaluation and instantiation of logical people groups

Regards, Dave Ings,
Emerging Software Standards
Email: ings@ca.ibm.com
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