FYI the discussion was happening on incubator-general. Rafal and the Touk folks are going to submit a proposal for this.
Matthieu On Tue, Oct 6, 2009 at 2:57 AM, Rafal Rusin <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello, > > we started recently wsht project at TouK, which aims at implementing > WS Human Tasks spec > ( > http://top.touk.pl/confluence/display/top/WSHT+-+WS+Human+Tasks+Implementation > ). > In current version, there is implemented about 20% of spec, which > includes task creation, assigning, retrieval. Persistence is > implemented. Currently, there are no task escalations and > notifications. > > We would like to donate it to Apache and continue development here. > > I saw some discussion before, which pointed that this kind of project > would be desired at Apache > (http://markmail.org/thread/es3h3yprjrttxhlu). > There was also Agila project in Apache Incubator, which was meant to > implement Human Workflow solution, but it's abandoned (IMO because of > too broad scope - it included BPEL engine implmentation and web > console for management, details are here: > http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/incubator/agila/trunk). > > So we would like to shorten this scope and implement only services for > WS Human Tasks spec. This would consist of 2 distributions (war and > jbi) which would expose web services for tasks management. I saw there > was some interest on ServiceMix mailing list too, so I think jbi > distribution would be desired > (http://markmail.org/thread/svyxd6xrm2tbwnsz). > > From our side following people are willing to develop this project: > - Jakub Kurlenda <[email protected]> > - Mateusz Lipczyński <[email protected]> > - Michał Zalewski <[email protected]> > - Rafał Rusin <[email protected]> > - Ula Trzaskowska <[email protected]> > - Warren Crossing <[email protected]> > - Witek Wołejszo <[email protected]> > > Is there anyone here willing to champion such project? > > I believe also that there can be other code bases for proposal. We are > open for collaboration to get a satisfying WS Human Tasks > implementation. > > Regards, > -- > Rafał Rusin > http://www.touk.pl > http://top.touk.pl > http://people.apache.org/~rr/ <http://people.apache.org/%7Err/> >
