Hi all, I have done a little research on goal-oriented requirements engineering, and found out that the tool, Grail, that supports these activities, is not yet released to the public. Which makes the technology quite difficult to implement.
Nevertheless, it seems like the open-source community is mostly aimed at a prototyping type of style to find the requirements from the members of the community. This is a good thing, I believe, as long as documentation is in synch with the code. Jeff, I understand that there were UML diagrams from the time when periodicity was a part of Turbine(?). Are the UML diagrams now up-to-date with the current code? Anyway, are they available from CVS, because I did not find them when I looked for them. Going away now to ski in the mountains for a week, looking forward to hearing from you again. sincerely, Peter Od�us --- Jeff Prickett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> skrev: > > > Hello everyone: > I just want to update everyone on the status of > periodicity. > > Bottom line is it looks good for a release of 0.0.1 > near the end of March. > The release will be targeting developers mostly as > we wont be very far > along the development curve. > > The code currently saves the Event object to a MySQL > database, the > security subsystem has not been completed but it is > partially there, no > work has been done on the test templates. > > Notes about release 0.0.1 > > 1. We will be supporting persistence of a subset of > the properties for > both Events and To Do objects to at least a MySQL > database. > > 2. We will have a set of test templates so we can > view and edit events > and to do items. > > 3. We will have a simple security system designed to > protect mostly from > accidental access of someone else's information. The > security sub system > will probably be changing dramatically in future > releases because security > is specifically addressed in the Calendar Access > Protocol Internet Draft, > which we will be implementing later. > > 4. Our goal is to have a simple well documented > install process designed > to get the professional started in less than 10 > minutes and the novice up to > speed in less than 30 minutes. > > Notes about design. > > 1. I have drawn up a preliminary design for RFC 2446 > ITIP. Over the next > few days I will be trying to package up the design > by defining UML > diagrams and interfaces for other programmers to > implement. The goal of > the design is to break the RFC down into smaller > more manageable pieces > that can be worked on in parallel. The iTIP RFC is > approximately 60 pages, > but the design is broken down in such a way that > each java class file > corresponds to apporoximately five pages or less in > the specification. We > hope that by breaking down the work into smaller > pieces we will be able to > get more people involved in the process. I would > like to invite the senior > level people on the list to comment on the design > > 2. I have begun the design process on the Calendar > Access Protocol > Internet Draft and hope to have it completed by the > end of the week and > packaged up by next Wednesday. > > Notes about future releases... > > Internationalization is going to be a big issue. > About half if not more of > the people who have expressed interest in > Periodicity reside outside the > United States. We want to include localization and > time zone information > for as much of the world as possible. At this point > though it is probably > enough just to have some spirited discussions on the > issue :) > > Miscellaneous... > > I have not forgot about the Research of Leysia Palen > and have skimmed > through it. It is the next big document that I am > going to try to read. > > I think that is about it for now. Back to coding... > > > Sincerely, > Jeff Prickett > > > > -- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: > <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > For additional commands, e-mail: > <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > _____________________________________________________ Hitta sn�rapporter... fr�n 500 olika skidorter i Europa p� http://se.snow.yahoo.com -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
