[ogsa-wg] Proposal for re-organizing trackers

[Andreas Savva]

I've been talking with Jem about re-organizing the trackers and we
agreed on the following proposal. If you have any comments or
suggestions please respond.

Background:
OGSA-WG maintains one tracker per document per version, for a current
total of 12 document trackers. (The number of artifacts per tracker
vary.) Half of these trackers are for already published documents: they
are marked 'closed' and will not be used again. Since many of our
documents are likely to be revised  again we'll have to set up more
trackers. For example, work is already starting on a third version of
the Glossary, the Roadmap is expected to be updated periodically and so on.

Proposal:
To keep the total number of trackers down and keep the tracker summary
view usable the proposal is to re-organize the trackers so that each
document has at most 2 trackers associated with it: an archival tracker
and a current tracker.

The archival tracker will hold artifacts of *all* past versions of that
document. Artifacts will be tagged  with an appropriate "Document
Version" value so that it is clear which version they relate to (e.g.,
version 1.0, 1.5, etc). The current tracker will hold all new artifacts,
including any artifacts that were deferred in previous versions.

In terms of process, new artifacts will be put in the current tracker.
When a document is published all closed artifacts from the current
tracker are tagged with the document version and moved to the archival
tracker; all deferred artifacts remain on the current tracker and are
set back to the open state.

Current tracker summary view:
https://forge.gridforum.org/sf/tracker/do/listTrackers/projects.ogsa-wg/tracker
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Andreas Savva
Fujitsu Laboratories Ltd