BPEL4People - June 9-11 F2F Draft Minutes

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

Hi everyone,

It was great to meet everyone in person, and thanks again to SAP / Ivana for being such great hosts! Tentatively, the next F2F will be at Oracle, Redwood City, CA, September 16-18. We'll discuss and confirm this in a forthcoming TC.

Attendance

(See attached file: BPEL4People F2F 2008-06 Attendance.doc)

Issues Discussed at the F2F

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

We noted that: resolution of BP-15 depends on resolution of BP-6.

Daily Minutes


(See attached file: BPEL4People F2F 2008-06-09 Minutes.doc)

(See attached file: BPEL4People F2F 2008-06-10 Minutes.doc)

(See attached file: BPEL4People F2F 2008-06-11 Minutes.doc)

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

BPEL4People F2F 2008-06 Attendance.doc

BPEL4People F2F 2008-06-09 Minutes.doc

BPEL4People F2F 2008-06-10 Minutes.doc

BPEL4People F2F 2008-06-11 Minutes.doc