[egr-rg] Use Case Repository draft plan

[Subramaniam, Ravi]

Hi,

Dave's 3 parts to the template suggestion makes a lot of sense. I also
agree with Craig's general intent to keep things simple to get people to
submit use cases. 

I was hoping to make sure that as we try to drive this activity to high
gear we don't end up with a random set of inputs and run into the
problems we ran into in the OGSA where we had to have everyone re-write
the use cases to the common format so that we could correlate. I was
among the first two or there to submit a use case to OGSA but could
never find the time to rewrite to the format once it was decided and so
it never got included in the published document. I guess there would be
others like me who have every intention of publishing but cannot do it
more than once at best can only do an incremental update (Dave's
suggestion help's here).

Thanks!

Ravi 

-----Original Message-----
From: David Snelling [mailto:David.Snelling at uk.fujitsu.com] 
Sent: Sunday, July 10, 2005 10:35 AM
To: Craig Lee
Cc: Subramaniam, Ravi; egr-rg at gridforum.org; andre at merzky.net;
kielmann at cs.vu.nl; Bruce.R.Barkstrom at nasa.gov; stodghil at cs.cornell.edu;
gcf at indiana.edu
Subject: Re: [egr-rg] Use Case Repository draft plan

Folks,

How about a rather detailed template with required, desired and 
optional headings. Ask people to file the required ASAP, and then later 
the level of detail they feel able to provide.  This way we should be 
able to achieve the following:

1) Actually get a bunch of new use cases in the package.

2) Trap duplicates before people waste effort, e.g. "Thanks for the 
required elements, but we have this already. If your details are 
roughly the same, save yourself some effort or extend it as you see 
fit."

3) We have a place holder and a contact that we can chase on a 
proactive basis if we wish.

4) There was something else, but I can't remember now.

On 10 Jul 2005, at 17:34, Craig Lee wrote:

>
> Ravi,
>
> I think it would be very advantageous for GGF to have some uniformity 
> across
> use case formats but it would certainly have to strike the right 
> balance between
> semantic content and ease-of-collection, and between structure and 
> free-form.
> If we start this use case repository, my feeling was to impose the 
> absoulute
> minimum amount of structure necessary at the start since we will have 
> to
> deal with all the use cases that have already been collected in many 
> different
> formats (hence, the use of just keyword lists).  As we go forward, 
> however,
> if EGR can find that right balance of properties, then maybe such a 
> use case
> template could find wider use across GGF. ;->
>
> --Craig
>
>
> At 02:48 AM 7/9/2005, Subramaniam, Ravi wrote:
>> Hi Craig,
>>
>> Looks good!!
>>
>> I would suggest the EGR Use Case template as a good way to add 
>> structure
>> to input that you mention. The template could also be a great way to
>> identify the attributes that need to be tracked on such a page. We 
>> don't
>> want to make this similar to a "multiple choice survey" which is easy

>> to
>> take but sparse in semantics and content. We may also need to promote
>> the EGR use case template as a way to build the richer use cases
where
>> the web page is a good summary to navigate the "hopefully :-)" large
>> number of use cases.
>>
>> Ravi
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: owner-egr-rg at ggf.org [mailto:owner-egr-rg at ggf.org] On Behalf Of
>> Craig Lee
>> Sent: Wednesday, July 06, 2005 1:35 PM
>> To: egr-rg at gridforum.org; andre at merzky.net; kielmann at cs.vu.nl;
>> Bruce.R.Barkstrom at nasa.gov; stodghil at cs.cornell.edu
>> Cc: craig at rushg.aero.org; gcf at indiana.edu
>> Subject: [egr-rg] Use Case Repository draft plan
>>
>>
>> All,
>>
>> Attached is a draft plan for a GGF Use Case Repository.  Please 
>> comment.
>> I've tried to work this out such that we can do the simpliest,
easiest
>> things
>> first that get us the most benefit, and work towards things that may 
>> be
>> useful but would require a little more work.  I'm sure there must be
>> things
>> I haven't thought about.
>>
>> --Craig
>>
>> P.S.   This is an _unofficial_ project at this point.  (I think the 
>> GGF
>> Front Office
>> is on vacation this week. ;-)  But why let that stand in the way of
>> progress ;->
>
>
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