Subversion Developers, Some of you may already be aware of Open Services for Lifecycle Collaboration (OSLC), an open initiative being developed at open-services.net.
OSLC is a community developing specifications for a set of REST services for linked data in product and software delivery teams. One such specification is that for Software Configuration Management, and I lead the workgroup for that team (my name is Nick Crossley, and I work for IBM). I'm hoping that some of you would be interested in contributing to OSLC in any of several ways. First, we have a draft first version of the SCM specification, defining read-only services to access resources in an SCM system, and of course it would be good if we could produce an implementation of those services for Subversion. The first step in this direction would be for us to review the draft spec and see how the services could be mapped to Subversion; if there are problems in the spec making it unclear how to do this, we can clarify or fix defects in the spec. Second, we will soon start work on version 2 of the SCM spec, adding new services. I would very much like to have some input from this community on what those services should be, and how they should work. This input can be provided informally, or you are welcome to join the SCM workgroup. Third, you are of course not limited to reviewing or contributing to the SCM spec. If you have interest in the other groups, such as change management (defect tracking, etc.), asset management, quality/test management, requirements management, etc., then your input to those domains would also be welcome. To review the specs for any of these groups, and to comment on those specs or contribute new idea, look at the wiki at http://open-services.net/bin/view/Main/WebHome. Each workgroup has an email list, and there's also a community email list for general OSLC concerns. For your comments on OSLC SCM, you can use the OSLC SCM email list (see http://open-services.net/mailman/listinfo/oslc-scm_open-services.net), or respond to this thread, or mail me directly at ncross...@us.ibm.com. Thanks, Nick.
