[ogsa-wg] Proposal for re-organizing trackers

[Hiro Kishimoto]

Thanks Andreas,

New tracker usage is pretty nice.

Is there any reason you do not add GFD.44 and GFD.81 to "file-releases"?
Although it consumes extra storage space, I think file-release is
designed for that way.

Thanks again,
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Hiro Kishimoto

Andreas Savva wrote:
> Here's what the latest proposal for the trackers looks like. (This is
> already done for the Glossary tracker if anyone wants to have a look.)
> 
> 1. One tracker per document; instead of archival+current as in the
> original proposal
> 
> 2. Use the 'Category' field to separate artifacts for different document
> versions; instead of defining a new version tag field. The main reason
> is that the Category field appears on the tracker summary view page so
> allows easy filtering. (AFAIK it is not possible--by mere humans--to
> change the tracker summary view to add new filter fields and using the
> detailed search page is too complicated as the main mechanism for
> narrowing views.)
> 
> For example, the Glossary tracker has "Version 1.0," "Version 1.5,"
> "Next version." defined as categories.
> 
> 3. The process remains similar. New artifacts go in as "Next version" or
> the working version if one has been set; deferred artifacts from a
> previous version are moved to the next version and to open.
> 
> The Glossary tracker has a three such artifacts.
> 
> 4. Optionally use 'File releases' to associate artifacts with the
> release (version) they were reported in, and the release in which they
> were fixed. There is an automatic association between releases and two
> tracker fields (reported in release; fixed in release) so release names
> can be used without extra work.
> 
> For example, for the Glossary I have created two (empty) releases for
> Glossary 1.0 and Glossary 1.5 and have associated Glossary artifacts to
> the release in which they were reported and the one they were fixed.
> (Some issues were reported in 1.0; deferred and fixed in 1.5)
> 
> Andreas
> 
> David Snelling wrote:
>> Andreas and Jem,
>>
>> This sounds pretty good. I think I start with this approach in the
>> Technical Strategy document activity as well. I may come to you for "how
>> to create the version tag" question at some point.
>>
>> On 3 Oct 2006, at 06:13, Andreas Savva wrote:
>>
>>> 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
>>>
>>> --Andreas Savva
>>> Fujitsu Laboratories Ltd
>>>
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