I think the large scale analysis phase is over and we need to move into a more detailed phase.
The roadmap (https://dev.launchpad.net/ArchitectureGuide/ServicesRoadmap) should be moderately interesting reading - the list of candidate services is taken from the analysis I linked here before, but its time to start getting down to brass tacks. We need to decide on default protocols, software stacks and so forth for internal services that we create. One useful thing to do is to try and identify characteristics that matter in either a positive or negative way. Rather than repeat the wiki page here, I'd love it if you were to go and have a read, and reply to this thread with your thoughts. All the discussions I previously put off - e.g. should we use a message queue as the default internal protocol - are now up for discussion! Please do edit the wiki page if you like, or reply here - I'm subscribed to both and will marshall things together as we tease the issues apart. We probably cannot make a final decision without actually doing some experiments, so I'm planning on putting together one/some prototypes of one of the smaller services identified in the road map. The one I currently have in mind is a GPG key retrieval / signature verification service (which can handle some of the fugly the hkp keyserver in the data centre has, as well as managing gnupg work areas in a safe way etc etc. Other smaller services would be awesome too. Cheers, Rob _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~launchpad-dev Post to : launchpad-dev@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~launchpad-dev More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
