[news.eclipse.technology.alf] ALF Source Code Mangement Vocabulary Meeti

["Tim Buss" <t b u s s @ S e r e n a . c o m>]

ALF Source Code Management Vocabulary Meeting, Wednesday April 26th at
10:00AM PDT

Agenda

0. Last week's minutes (04-19-06)

1. Wikki update

2. Discuss Richard Title's "Word" document 3. Discuss work assignments 4.
Any other business

Attendees

Tim Buss - Serena

Brian Carrol - Serena

Eric Minick - Urban Code

Scott McGrath - Accurev

Richard Title - Accurev

Glenn Everett - Compuware

Bob Brady - Segue

0. last week's minutes were accepted

1. Wikki Update

Daniel Gross will be moving the hosting of the current wikki to the
University of Toronto. He hoes to ba able to address the questions in the
next week. We should manually back up any changes to the current wikki to be
sure although it should be being backed up by the host. Hoepfully we will
have this availabe next week.

2. Richard's document

There have been some email exchanges on this It was suggested that the
architechture section needed some more clarification and refinement Richard
described the 9 "Concepts"

Workspace

A fair amount of discussion since it has both client side and server side
implications and is related to file transfer. We defered a detailed
discussion to a later date. Some notes:

Servers can know about "profiles" or "templates" of workspace. May store a
workspace configuration for a user. May not.

Maybe often a client side notion

Notion remote update of workspaces - push model.

Pull model may be more common.

SCM usually has a client and server components More discussion required Take
a look at JSR147

File, Directory

No issues raised

Element

Main issue is that commonly identified by path but path can be an arbitrary
identifier and really need to expose unique ID. Some notes:

Different models of naming - name belongs to directory vs name belongs to
file Path has context in workspace or configuration. Can change if name is
changed.

Element ID may be important.

Alias support?

Version

What about folder/Directory versioning?

ChangeSet

Important for issue tracking tools.

Branch/Stream

Promotion sets = stream

Related to workspace configuration. A workspace might work on a branch. Or
the workspace might work under a stream

Baselines

Label can be used for this. Timestamps can be used.

Component

May be define by a directory structure.

3. Discuss work assignments

We ran out of time to discuss this formally but the following seems to
reflect the current state.

These are delivered:

T2. "Write an introduction to the SCM Vocabulary effort stating philosophy,
goals etc." - Scott McGrath in the next couple of weeks. Looks like Richard
T had a go at this. Scott, did you have more in mind?

These are still pending.

T1. Try to confirm our use of the Wikki - Tim Buss - due May 3 T3. Pick a
couple of use cases to fully flesh out as examples. - Richard Title with
assistence of others. (Note: This was not explicilty agreed to but implied
so I'm reaching - sorry Richard)

These are new

T4. Enhance the ALF architecture section - Tim Buss - due May 10 T5. Review
concepts for completeness and clarity. - All - due May 3 T6. Update concepts
from notes as appropriate - Richard Title - due May 3 T7. Discuss
"Workspace" - no date set.

4. Any other business

Not other business was proposed.

Next week we will discuss the set of use cases we have so far and perhaps
try to start T3 (see above). Please review the use cases and make additions
if you have them.

Tim Buss

Serena Software Inc.