Proposed SCA schedule

[Bryan Aupperle <aupperle@us.ibm.com>]

For now this message is informational...

At the last Liaison committee meeting
a proposal for an overall schedule for completing the 1.1 SCA specs was
discussed.  The highlights are: 

Tentative dates for key milestones:
Sep 15, 2008 - Raise the bar for opening new issues (for all TCs)
Nov 15, 2008 - Detailed design for testing work
Jan 23, 2009 - Assembly TC to start 1st Public Review (60 day)
Feb 23, 2009 - Other TCs to start 1st Public Review (60 day)
May 31, 2009 - Finish all the work
July 4, 2008  - Submit specs to OASIS for OS vote

Some additional detail:
List of milestones: 

"No new issue"deadline (creation of a high bar for raising any
new issues) 

Detailed Design for Testing complete 
All issues resolved 
All issues incorporated into specification 

Testing commencement 

1st Public Review 
- Criteria for starting the 1st PR: 
- a> close all the open issues (unresolved issues may be closed by deferring
to future release) 
- b> include conformance statements (required by OASIS TC process)

Testing completion 
Issues from PR and testing resolved 
Issues from PR and testing incorporated 

2nd Public Review 
Issues from PR2 and testing resolved 
Issues from PR2 and testing incorporated 

Possible - another round of updates to specs and 3rd Public Review 

Committee spec 
OASIS standard : 

Dates proposed in Assembly TC:
A potential schedule for these various
milestones is as follows, bearing in mind various 
OASIS-mandatory aspects required for Public Reviews:

Sep 15, 2008         - "No new issue"deadline
Nov 15, 2008         - Detailed Design for Testing
complete 
Dec 19 2008        - All issues resolved 
Jan 13 2009        - All issues incorporated into specification
Jan 20 2009         - Testing commencement

Jan 23, 2009         - 1st Public Review starts (60
day) 
Mar 24, 2009         - 1st Public Review completes
Mar 24 2009         - Testing completion 
Apr 21 2009         - Issues from PR and testing resolved
Apr 28 2009         - Issues from PR and testing incorporated

May 1 2009         - 2nd public review starts(15 day)
May 18 2009         - 2nd public review completes
May 26 2009         - Issues from PR2 and testing resolved
May 31 2009         - Issues from PR2 and testing incorporated

May 31, 2009         - Finish all the work 
July 4, 2008          - Submit specs to OASIS
for OS vote 


Bryan Aupperle, Ph.D.
STSM, WebSphere Enterprise Platform Software Solution Architect
Master Inventor

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