SCA-BPEL F2F meeting minutes

Date Sep 20, 2007

Agenda

http://www.oasis-open.org/apps/org/workgroup/sca-bpel/event.php?event_id=16220

Scribe: Khanderao Khand

Roll

Name	Company	Status
Michael Pellegrini	Active Endpoints, Inc.	Group Member
fred carter	AmberPoint	Group Member
Michael Rowley	BEA Systems, Inc.	Group Member
Jacques Durand	Fujitsu Limited*	Group Member
Dieter Koenig	IBM	Group Member
Martin Chapman	Oracle Corporation	Group Member
Khanderao Kand	Oracle Corporation	Group Member
Anish Karmarkar	Oracle Corporation	Group Member
Jason Kinner	Oracle Corporation	Group Member
Ashok Malhotra	Oracle Corporation	Group Member
Jeff Mischkinsky	Oracle Corporation	Group Member
Sanjay Patil	SAP AG*	Group Member
Ivana Trickovic	SAP AG*	Group Member
Monica Martin	Sun Microsystems	Group Member
Pete Wenzel	Sun Microsystems	Group Member
Najeeb Andrabi	TIBCO Software Inc.	Group Member
Danny van der Rijn	TIBCO Software Inc.	Group Member

Introductions

Members introduced themselves.

Approval of minutes from inaugural concall

Located at http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/sca-bpel/200709/msg00008.html

Motion to not have a motion "is to not require formal motion for approval of meetings"...no objections...Moved by Michael, seconded by Dieter

Resolution: no formal motion for approval of minutes will be required.

Meetings of the first meeting approved without objections

Role Assignments

Anish (co-chair) explained Roles (spec editors, issues editor, secretary, permanent minute takes) and asked for volunteers to be a secretary or permanent minutes takers. No volunteers. Hence, rotating list for minute taker.

Resolution: rotating list of minute takers.

Editors (volunteered and approved): Martin Chapman, Dieter Koenig, Mike Rowley, Alex Yiu, Ivana Trickovic, and Najeeb Andrabi

Michael floated: TC members and editors should be appropriately mentioned on the specification. Also list of editors can be revisited based on the active participation

Issues:

Issues: Martin Chapman presented a state diagram and a procedure for managing issues.

Issues process presentation located at http://www.oasis-open.org/apps/org/workgroup/sca-bpel/email/archives/200709/msg00022.html

Dieter asked whether any special voting needed

Dieter mentioned that in BPEL TC bar was raised in the later stage. Martin agreed that we can revisit the majority / voting related decision later whenever needed.

A motion moved by Martin Chapman and seconded by Dieter Koenig: Motion states: TC accepts a standing rule that to reopen an issue that has been closed a web vote will be conducted by the TC chairs with a Special Majority required to pass.

Vote for the motion: 8+1=9

Against the motion: 1+1 = 2

Motion passed

Resolution: new standing rule adopted wrt reopening of isues.

A motion moved by Dieter Koenig and seconded by Peter Wenzel to follow the issues process as presented by Martin in http://www.oasis-open.org/apps/org/workgroup/sca-bpel/email/archives/200709/msg00022.html

Motion passes.

Issues Editor: Alex Yiu volunteered

Testing and compliance:

Motion: Martin moved a motion and seconded by Jacques: Motion: to form a subcommittee to look at testing and compliance

Any one is not interested in joining discussions about testing and compliance? None

No one favored to form the subcommittee.

Motion failed. No one favored.

Anish and Dieter volunteered to work on testing and compliance aspects.

Plan to format contributed specs using OASIS template.
http://docs.oasis-open.org/templates/

The OASIS TC Process

Anish presented the OASIS TC specification process as explained in

http://www.oasis-open.org/apps/org/workgroup/sca-bpel/email/archives/200709/msg00023.html

Martin moved a motion: TC to accept the contribution submitted to this TC

(http://www.oasis-open.org/apps/org/workgroup/sca-bpel/download.php/25346/SCA_ClientAndImplementationModelforBPEL_V100.pdf) and direct editors to apply an OASIS template to create the first working draft to the TC

Seconded by Michael Rowley

Passed without any opposition.

Review of the contributed material:

Dieter Koenig presented the document.

Action Items:

· Chairs: to check with the SCA Steering committee to decide the version number of the specifications under standardization.

· Editors: Refer to assembly and policy. Also, to add participants (TC) members list and the OSOA contributors list in the Acknowledgement (page 16) section

· Editors: Reference Section 1 (Page 2): Addition to reference element there should be a service element

· Editors: Update the syntax of Component in the same introduction section

· Chairs: Recommended update the steering committee about the amended motion about RFC2119

· Danny would raise an issue based on discussion on section 2.4 related to Determinism of partnerlink to reference algorithm and Determinism of same algorithm to local partnerLinks

Motion: Keywords and terminologies (as given in section: Terminology (section 1.1.)) should be interpreted as use RFC2119. Motion by Martin, Seconded by Dieter.

Amendment from Danny Van Der Rijn: Disallow to use lower case for keywords and terminologies. Seconded by Martin. Amendment Passed unanimously
Amendment: While RFC2119 permits the use of synonyms, to achieve consistency across specifications it is recommended that MUST be is used instead of SHALL, and MUST NOT instead of SHALL NOT.

§ Martin Chapman. Seconded by Khanderao.

§ Approved.

Amended motion: Approved unanimously

Dieter motion: In the acknowledgement section, acknowledge all the TC members throughout the lifetime of the specification and also those who are not in the TC but contributed to the same document in OSOA.

Seconded by Jeff

Approved unanimously

Conference calls and their Sponsorship:

Future calls as scheduled on Thursdays Time: 08:00am - 09:00am PT

Oracle Corp. would sponsor the telecons. The callin details will be the same as that of the f2f callin.

Next call would be on coming Thursdays Time: 08:00am - 09:00am PT

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