RE: [sca-assembly] REOPEN ISSUES 132 and 149: Update to Sanjay's Proposal

[Mike Edwards <mike_edwards@uk.ibm.com>]

Jeff,

For documents to have standing in OASIS,
the only option is effectively to make them into specifications.
The documents relating to the test suite
and to the test assertions are done in this way - and as you will
have seen, those documents go through
the full review cycle of a specification as required by OASIS
rules.

For these two new documents, I can see
two possible alternative routes to proceeding:

a) Have them as separate standalone
documents, each created and managed as a specification.

b) Have the material of the two documents
added as appendixes to some other existing specification
documents.  For these two documents,
the implementation type material could be added to the
Assembly specification document and
the testsuite adaptation document could be added to the 
Assembly test suite specification document.

Other folk may have some alternatives
that I've not thought of.

I note that option b) would certainly
require a public review of the updated specification documents.
Option a) requires a full public review
of the 2 documents.


Yours,  Mike.

Strategist - Emerging Technologies, SCA & SDO.
Co Chair OASIS SCA Assembly TC.
IBM Hursley Park, Mail Point 146, Winchester, SO21 2JN, Great Britain.
Phone & FAX: +44-1962-818014    Mobile: +44-7802-467431  
Email:  mike_edwards@uk.ibm.com

From:	"Estefan, Jeff A (3100)" <jeffrey.a.estefan@jpl.nasa.gov>
To:	OASIS Assembly <sca-assembly@lists.oasis-open.org>
Date:	27/04/2010 17:34
Subject:	RE: [sca-assembly] REOPEN ISSUES 132 and 149: Update to Sanjay's Proposal

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Mike,
 
As mentioned on today’s
call, we’ll need to ask the assistance of Mary and perhaps other members
of the OASIS staff about this topic, but I do not see how these templates
would need to be elevated to formal OASIS Specification status because
unlike the SCA Assembly Model specification, which truly is an OASIS spec
as it contains “specification” language, these proposed documents contain
requirements language (in the form of templates) that are intended to assist
the user community with verifying an SCA Runtime’s conformance with a
SCA Assembly Model specification.
 
Looking over the various
OASIS document templates (http://docs.oasis-open.org/templates/),
I do not see on in place for such a technical work product.
 
Raising these documents to
full Specification level will most certainly impede our progress on ratifying
the SCA Assembly Model v1.1 spec and I hope that is not the case, but we
certainly need to find out sooner rather than later.
 
Would you like me to reach
out to Mary and the OASIS staff about this or would you and/or Martin as
TC co-chairs prefer to initiative the question?  Just let me know.

 
Cheers…
 
 - Jeff E.
 
From: Mike Edwards [mailto:mike_edwards@uk.ibm.com]
Sent: Monday, April 26, 2010 11:25 PM
To: OASIS Assembly
Subject: Re: [sca-assembly] REOPEN ISSUES 132 and 149: Update to Sanjay's
Proposal
 

Folks, 

Since some comments on this thread indicated that some people did not see
that there were a pair of 
documents attached to the original email that started the thread, I have
assumed that there have been
some transmission problems and I have posted copies of the documents into
the OASIS web site. 

They can be accessed here: 

http://www.oasis-open.org/apps/org/workgroup/sca-assembly/download.php/37466/sca-assembly-1.1-impl-type-documentation-wd02.odt
http://www.oasis-open.org/apps/org/workgroup/sca-assembly/download.php/37467/sca-assembly-1.1-testsuite-adaptation-wd02.odt


Yours,  Mike.

Strategist - Emerging Technologies, SCA & SDO.
Co Chair OASIS SCA Assembly TC.
IBM Hursley Park, Mail Point 146, Winchester, SO21 2JN, Great Britain.
Phone & FAX: +44-1962-818014    Mobile: +44-7802-467431  
Email:  mike_edwards@uk.ibm.com

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