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Re: [stellation-res] Project Planning
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I want to finish studying the DeltaV and WVCM specs, so that I have a
more
accurate idea of how difficult the different tasks are. Jim is also on
vacation
taking his daughter to start college, and won't be back until wednesday.
But as a preliminary proposal to start some discussion:
Communication protocols and session management are, I think, really
part of the same thing. From my experience implementing protocols
(which is, frankly, more extensive than I'd actually care to admit :-)),
the wire-format issues of implementing a protocol are not that difficult
for high level protocols like the HTTP family. The hard part of
implementing
the protocol is, basically, session management in a way that properly
maintains the information needed by the semantic components
that lie behind the communication protocol. The protocol support may
well
be a large enough task to justify more that one person being involved.
Anyone
on the list who enjoys protocol implementation, feel free to come
forward, and
we can work out how to divide this up.
The Eclipse client integration should really be Jim's baby. Jim is
primarily
a UI guy, and most of his work has been on Eclipse integration
components.
Jonathan, you've been very active on the headless stuff, so if you'd
like to continue
working on that, you're welcome to. I think that the ant stuff is also
going
to be very closely related to the headless Eclipse stuff, so I'd
suggest that
you'd probably be a good person for that.
I think I'd like to do the repository changes, which will hopefully not
be too difficult. We need to specify the new session management
behavior in order to understand what is needed. So this ties in
closely with the protocol and session management.
So now, I'll get back to reading the specs, and when I get done, I'll
refine the writeup above and post it to the Wiki.
-Mark
On Sunday, August 24, 2003, at 10:24 AM, Jonathan Gossage wrote:
As Mark described on the Wiki, the opportunities presented by WVCM and
WebDAV are going to require some significant enhancements to and
restructuring of Stellation. I see work being needed in the following
areas:
Repository
Communication protocols
Server Management
Session Management
Eclipse client integration
Command line client (headless Eclipse application)
Ant task (gives access to Stellation repositories from Ant)
I would like to see each of us taking responsibility for one or more of
these areas. I am happy to work in any area so I think Mark should
make a
first cut assignment of responsibilities.ยง
The next step should be to prepare functional/design specifications
for each
area. I would like to see these being done as Wiki topics to allow
maximum
interaction among the committers and to make the process easily
accessible
to other interested parties. Once responsibilities have been assigned I
would like to see each of us prepare a TOC for those area each of us is
responsible for and then fill in the details as soon as possible.
Regards
Jonathan Gossage
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