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Re: [stp-dev] transcript of IRC 8 March 06

I'd like to add my comments here. There are always sensitivites about personal and company commitments in Eclipse, sometimes individuals have to move on, and sometimes companies have to move on. However on behalf of Scapa I'd like to say

1) Creating a PMC is a huge effort, and I think we owe a great deal to Carl's leadership over the last several months. Thanks, Carl.

2)We welcome Oisin into the PMC lead position, and the indication it shows of Iona's continuining support

3) Obviously if Carl and Red Hat can see a continuing role for him in STP, that would be great too.

Mike Norman,
CEO Scapa Technologies


Carl Trieloff wrote:

To the comments on the PMC. I am still on the PMC. What we did is move the lead of the PMC from myself to Oisin as IONA is the strategic member and leads STP. I have not resigned from the PMC, and am working the necessary paperwork with Eclipse which will take some time on my side to
remain active on the project.

Carl.


Oisin Hurley wrote:
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[17:03] oisin: hi all
[17:03] boisvert: howdy!
[17:03] sdaume: hi guys
[17:04] AMiguel: hi
[17:05] sdaume: Oisin, as a first agenda item I would like to ask you to clarify some of the PMC changes
[17:06] oisin: ok - it's a little confusing!
[17:06] sdaume: maybe I will just put forward a few specific questions
[17:06] oisin: currently on the PMC are: Oisin Hurley, Alain Boulze, Karl Reti, Carl Trieloff
[17:07] sdaume: Ok, I got the impression Carl is not on the PMC anymore
[17:07] sdaume: ?
[17:08] oisin: there are a couple of issues
[17:08] sdaume: fire away
[17:08] oisin: 1. to be not on the PMC Carl will need to formally resign
[17:10] oisin: 2. afaik he has done that, but for the moment he stays on because EclipseCon has taken up the time of the EMO and staff [17:11] oisin: 3. I need to meet with Bjorn, the process director, at EclipseCon and do a formal introduction
[17:11] sdaume: so who is PMC lead now ?
[17:11] oisin: that's my role
[17:11] sdaume: ok
[17:12] oisin: I will take an action item to get an accurate statement out to the list [17:13] sdaume: if possible, could you tell us how those changes came about ? I didn't see anything about this on the PMC mailing list
[17:14] oisin: (just checking my mail)
[17:15] oisin: yes you are correct, there was no discussion on the mailing list [17:16] oisin: instead the mailing went directly to the PMC individuals and Bjorn
[17:17] oisin: are you on the list stefan?
[17:17] sdaume: I am
[17:20] oisin: the reason I ask is that Bjorn had to do some maintenance work on it recently -- just checking that no-one got accidentally bumped from it [17:20] oisin: stefan, did you receive the emails regarding call scheduling etc today?
[17:21] sdaume: i did
[17:24] oisin: I will send my contact details to the list -- feel free to give me a call at any point (GMT
[17:25] oisin: any other q's?
[17:27] oisin: I've a couple of things (1) the Corona project, (2) the service creation subproject 'architecture' sent to stp-dev [17:27] boisvert: can somebody introduce the Corona project, i'm not familiar with it
[17:28] oisin: http://www.eclipse.org/proposals/corona/
[17:28] oisin: it bills itself as the 'Tools Services Framework'
[17:28] oisin: I was on the creation review today
[17:29] oisin: At this point in time I readily admit I don't understand half of it.
[17:29] oisin: However, they see some overlap with STP
[17:29] oisin: The one thing that I took from the creation review is that they are basically exposing eclipse extension points as web services [17:30] oisin: I think that the tie-in to our tooling is probably at the point of importing the interface offered by an extension point to make a contract and then perhaps doing a 'deployment' into the eclips\
e install
[17:31] oisin: They have been encouraged to have a BOF-style thing at eclipsecon, which might be fun to attend - especially since there was hints of mexican beer being supplied
[17:33] boisvert: ok, thanks
[17:33] oisin: Did any of you guys get a chance to check out the SC skeleton I sent to the dev list?
[17:34] oisin: Please don't be shy about feedback
[17:34] oisin:
[17:34] boisvert: so my question would be how would we go about working with the corona project? [17:34] boisvert: are you suggesting that eclipsecon would be the venue for some kind of kickoff discussion? [17:35] oisin: I think it would be good to get a bit of context with them before then. [17:36] oisin: I would suggest that we have an IRC meet or a concall this week or early next week [17:36] oisin: then we would be in a better position to talk details at eclipsecon
[17:37] oisin: what do you think?
[17:37] boisvert: yes, i sure would be interested in better understanding their intents
[17:37] sdaume: that would good. i suggest early next week
[17:38] boisvert: maybe we could substitute next week's STP IRC chat with a chat w/ corrona
[17:38] oisin: what about mon/tues?
[17:38] oisin: [for selfish reasons - I'm not available wed/thu/fri]
[17:39] sdaume: monday
[17:40] oisin: gimme the plus ones minus ones guys
[17:40] oisin: +1
[17:40] DavidBosschaert: Either Monday/Tuesday is fine +1
[17:40] boisvert: monday/tuesday +1
[17:40] oisin: ok I will get in touch with the lead and propose we have a session on this channel.
[17:41] boisvert: wonderful
[17:41] sdaume: maybe a conf call would be better for this ?
[17:42] oisin: I'm open to either approach - we can provide the bridge
[17:42] boisvert: i'm open to both as well
[17:42] oisin: right we'll see what the corona chaps can do, leave it with me. [17:42] sdaume: I guess an introduction and overview of the Corona project is easier delivered in a conf call
[17:43] oisin: it's the question throughtput that is the key part
[17:44] oisin: ok - have we got anything else to bring up?
[17:44] dparikh: I have a question about SC skeleton.
[17:44] dparikh: Is it possible to use WSDL as contract model ?
[17:44] oisin: ask away - can you introduce yourself too, please, I don't recognise the nick! [17:45] oisin: I think using WSDL as the contract model is one perfectly acceptable approach [17:45] dparikh: sure I am Devang Parikh. I work with Dan Berg on STP Core Framework
[17:45] oisin: Hi Devang!
[17:45] dparikh: hey
[17:46] dparikh: Since many implementation uses WSDL to describe their interface or have clear mapping to WSDL, [17:46] dparikh: they will not have to create mapping to another contract model. [17:46] boisvert: one of the challenge these days is to model 'listener' type interactions through WSDL
[17:47] dparikh: last I check WTP had EMF model for WSDL.
[17:47] boisvert: not that you can't model these interactions, but mostly that almost no tools seem to support the necessary MEPs and they fall out of the interop standards [17:47] oisin: I think that a key requirement of the contract model is that it can produce WSDL - whether or not the in-memory model is WSDL is not that important [17:48] boisvert: ok, that i can see working in the not too distant future [17:48] sdaume: oisin are you proposing to create an EMF-based contract model from scratch [17:49] sdaume: that will have mappings to specific contract languages like WSDL [17:49] oisin: I'm personally inclined an EMF model, purely because we can get some freebies in terms of generating the basis for the notification etc [17:50] dparikh: I agree that we should use EMF model. My question is can we use WSDL EMF model from WTP ?
[17:51] sdaume: so the WSDL EMF model is the contract model ?
[17:51] dparikh: yes that is what i am thinking.
[17:51] sdaume: I think this is to restrictive
[17:51] oisin: Is the WSDL EMF model purposed just to WSDL?
[17:52] oisin: I'm with stefan on this -- I think we should put in place something that doesn't attempt to meta-model world+dog but will give us something from which we can easily address a wsdl requirement. [17:53] sdaume: question is will we have a meta-model to build on or do we have to define this from scratch [17:54] boisvert: i would also hope we can reuse the WSDL EMF model for something like this [17:54] oisin: we should certainly do a real review of the WSDL EMF model and see what is missing in our opinions [17:54] oisin: we should also be informed by other contract languages that we know [17:55] dparikh: yes that will be good to see what we will have to add/enhance on WSDL model
[17:55] dparikh: *WSDL EMF model
[17:56] oisin: from my perspective there are two primary requirements of the model -- it must be transformable to WSDL (1.1 and 2.0) and it must be extensible [17:57] boisvert: Guys, I just noticed Karl Reti's EclipseCon presentation on the STP project at http://eclipsezilla.eclipsecon.org/eclipsezilla/php/attachment.php?bugid=235 [17:58] boisvert: when we are done discussing the SC skeleton, i'd like to ask a few questions [17:59] oisin: can we take the skel discussion to the list? I suggest that we all pile in and list our requirements of the contract model. I know for a fact that the gentlemen from sybase, who are not on this\
discussion, have some prior in this area.
[18:00] dparikh: yep. let's discuss this on list
[18:00] oisin: any objections?
[18:01] oisin: not seeing any: alex do you want to go with the questions?
[18:01] boisvert: not at all, i don't feel like i know enough about the WSDL EMF model now to make good judment [18:01] oisin: I mean the questions you had for after the SC skel discussion [18:01] boisvert: ok, so about Karl's presentation, i see the slide about "Alignment with SCA"
[18:01] oisin: slide number/
[18:01] oisin: ?
[18:02] oisin: 15
[18:02] boisvert: yes
[18:02] boisvert: slide 15
[18:02] oisin: ok go for it
[18:03] boisvert: and i'm wondering how that relates/impacts similar model like JBI for deployment, etc [18:03] boisvert: my most important concern being that I don't see JBI mentioned explicitly anywhere else [18:04] oisin: this was a big discussion item at the F2F -- there was a not heated but slightly warm exchange [18:04] dparikh left the chat room. ("Chatzilla 0.9.72 [Firefox 1.0.7/20050915]") [18:04] AMiguel left the chat room. ("Chatzilla 0.9.70 [Firefox 1.5.0.1/2006011112]") [18:05] oisin: the logicblaze guys are JBI all the way and were not too keen on an SCA based thing
[18:05] boisvert: understood
[18:06] boisvert: so there is interest in JBI support as well?
[18:06] oisin: they were assured that the SCA Assembly model is transformable to JBI
[18:06] boisvert: ok, that's good to know
[18:06] oisin: There was a whiteboard discussion between the aligned parties IBM/BEA and ObjectWeb/LogicBlaze
[18:07] oisin: JBI is not out of scope
[18:07] boisvert: i'll take this as assumption right now
[18:07] sdaume: I think it was agreed that extension points needed to be defined for that ?
[18:07] oisin: stefan is correct
[18:07] oisin: the nature of the solution however is not clear
[18:07] oisin: at this point in time
[18:07] boisvert: right, ok, so health discussion around supporting both
[18:08] boisvert: (healthy)
[18:08] oisin: oh yes.
[18:08] boisvert: that's good to hear
[18:08] oisin: I suggest, alex, that you might send a mail to this effect to the list to see who the interested [18:08] boisvert: that's all the question i have about the presentation right now
[18:08] oisin: parties are...
[18:08] boisvert: sure
[18:08] oisin: we need to get discussion going on that topic too.
[18:09] oisin: ok. we're a little over time, is there anything else we got to talk about?
[18:09] sdaume: particularly with the changes in SCA
[18:09] oisin: tracking SCA is something that we will be actively doing.
[18:10] boisvert: nothing on my side
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[18:10] oisin: ok let's call it day so
[18:11] boisvert: alright, thanks guys
[18:11] oisin: thanks
[18:11] sdaume: bye

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