[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>]

Meeting minutes for ALF Source Code Management Vocabulary Meeting, Wednesday
May 24th at 10:00AM PDT

Agenda

0. Last week's minutes

1. Status on tasks (see list in minutes below)

2. Use Cases

3. Workspace discussion

4. Any other business



Attendees:

Tim Buss - Serena

Adam Simantel - Serena

Eric Minick - Urban Code

Richard Title - Accurev

Mark Phippard - SoftLanding

0. Last weeks minutes were accepted. Not additional comments were noted

1. Status on tasks

Todo

T3. Pick a couple of use cases to fully flesh out as examples.

We received some integration based use cases from Kelly Shaw (see her email)
and have decided to pursue her first case from an ALF perspective Eric
Minick and Richard title "volunteered" to have go at this.

T7. Discuss "Workspace" -

We started the discussion on the all (see below)

T9. Add SCM product equivalent terms to concepts - due May 24

Adam Simantel added some

T11. Integration based use cases

We need to capture a set of typical SCM integration use cases to ground the
ALF vocab effort

Adam Simantel

Eric Minick

All

Eric created a Wikki page which was discussed (see below) It was suggested
that we need to have some scenario based use cases (see Use Cases Below) We
decided to continue this task in a separate Mail thread.

This appears to be close to the idea of T3 (above) which somehow I missed in
the task review

The email thread gathered some useful perspective.

T12. Review and Discuss Data Model - All - due May 31 Postponed due to
Brian' absence

T13. Review and

Discuss "Component" concept - All - due May 31 Postponed due to Brian'
absence

T14. Wikki pictures -

This has been figured out and while a bit convoluted seems to be fairly
easy. When you are editing a section thre is a tab at the top that allows
you to insert an image tag eg. [[Image:Example.jpg]] at the cursor. If you
save the change and exit the edit mode you can click on the image tag to
upload the image.

New Tasks

T15.

Expand "primitive" use cases to include more detail (eg datatypes, method
signatures) I volunteered to ask Adam and Jamey to take a look at this

2. Use cases

Basic point - While the it's true that primitive can be used to create any
SCM scenario we want to ALF focused integration scenarios to prioritize
primitives. The goal is not to create the "best SCM ever". We decided to
pursue primitives and scenarios in tandem.

Eric and Richard will break down Kelly Shaw's Scenario to illustrate how
that might get implmented using ALF.

Adam and Jamey (too be determined) will expand the primitive use cases to
start including the datatypes and method signatures (see tasks T3 and T15)

3. Workspaces

Basic point - SCM usually involves a client that controls some local
storage. Tools operate on this local storage. In ALF, the service flow may
iniate a get (fex) but it doesn't control any local storage and we do not
want to stream file content through BPEL. We need a "workspace service" that
can provide storage for the get (fex) that the SCM can be instructed to get
to and tools can be instructed to access to obtain the file content. The ALF
purpose is to avoid the tool having in integrate with every SCM client
individually. There are a number of models for this. This will be discussed
in a separate thread.

4. Other business

No other business was noted.

Tim Buss - Serena.