Re: [epf-dev] Status from 3/30 BUP call with authors

["Scott W. Ambler" <swa@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Sorry for missing the call.  Darn client stuff keeps getting in the way.  ;-)

Anyway, I'm in the process of filling out the 
comitter paperwork, so I'll hopefully be up and running early next week.

- Scott

At 08:51 AM 4/1/2006, you wrote:
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> hiho,
>
> On Thursday, 3/30 at 8am PST, there was a 
> conference call on assigning ownership to BUP 
> content as we modify and complete the IBM 
> donation for the 1.0 launch scheduled for 9/1/2006.
>
> On the call were:
> ·         Steve Adolph, UBC
> ·         Ricardo Balduino, IBM
> ·         Mark Dickson, Xansas/DSDM Consortium
> ·         Chris Doyle, Synergy Plus
> ·         Brian Lyons, Number Six Software, Inc.
> ·         Bruce MacIsaac, IBM
> ·         Jim Ruehl, IBM
> ·         Chris Sibbald, Telelogic
>
> We decided to have each content package in BUP 
> assigned to a committer (or – based on duration 
> it is taking – someone on track to be a 
> committer).  We discussed that the templates 
> package is not really a logical separate area, 
> but only broken out for convenience of process 
> engineers; each template would be the 
> responsibility of the owner of the relevant 
> discipline.  In this pass the Process is not the focus.
>
> The assignment of a package does not imply that 
> the individual is solely responsible for 
> authoring all the content.  The assignment of 
> the package is responsibility that the content gets authored.
>
> Based on the participants on the call, the 
> responsible parties are shown below.  One 
> addition is that we have a pending decision on 
> project management because Kirti Vaidya had 
> proclaimed an interest in that, but was not on the call.
> Package
> Owner
> architecture
> Chris Dickson, Xansas
> change_management
> <vacant>
> development
> <vacant>
> general
> Steve Adolph, UBC
> project_management
> Kirti Vaidya, Covansys (pending)
> requirements
> Chris Sibbald, Telelogic
> test
> Brian Lyons, Number Six Software
>
> Ricardo Balduino of IBM will manage the overall 
> architecture of the process.  Based on the way 
> EPF Composer works, Ricardo will be responsible 
> for managing all relationships between 
> elements.  And he is responsible for creating 
> any additional elements that will subsequently 
> be assigned to reside in a package.
>
> If you are a committer or on your way to 
> becoming one and you have an interest in being 
> responsible for cm or development, please reply.
>
> Everyone interested in contributing content 
> should be getting Eclipse setup for CVS to 
> access BUP.  That is the best way to get the 
> most up-to-date content.  This is the real-time 
> development repository that committers check 
> their work into.  Official committers have 
> read-write access, but anyone can use it to 
> regularly pull the very latest content.
>
> There will be a conference call on Thursday, 4/6 
> at 8am PST to discuss updates and status of this 
> work.  We have a milestone on 4/15 to be 
> underway with authoring content and have all 
> elements defined (albeit possibly 
> incomplete).  As the various guidelines are 
> often driven by the detail in the other process 
> elements, we are giving ourselves some leeway in 
> not strictly baselining those by that date.
>
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