[personal] Re: [moby] Re: [MOBY-dev] how to handle errors in a biomoby service?

[Mark Wilkinson]

On Wed, 2005-08-24 at 17:07 +0100, Martin Senger wrote:

> An example of such thing are the proposals from Oswaldo and his
> collegues (eventhough I would not expect to have it always so perfectly
> written :-)).

Indeed!  It was more of a work of art than an RFC :-)  They have really
set the bar for the rest of us...


>  Important is that it must *say* this is a RFP/RFC, not just
> a wish in email. We will keep a place for it (bugzilla has wishlists?).

Unfortunately not :-(  I'm looking for something to use as an
alternative, but coming up empty.  I wonder if Simon's Wordpress could
do something in this regard?  TWiki has templates, and I suspect
Wordpress has something similar...


>    6) Now the tricky part: I think taht there should be only few people
> (major developers) who can vote on it. This is called an "Architecture
> Board" at OMG and guarantees that the changes are hopefully not breaking
> other things.

I think we know who those people are, for the most part, but I think it
would be good to open up the floor for volunteers with the caveat that
there *will be an expectation* of a ~significant time commitment from
those who volunteer, and with a one-year tenure (so that people don't
join just to get their favorite feature through the process and then
disappear again).  This should sufficiently self-regulate the membership
that it wont get unwieldy, and selects those who are both committed, and
knowledgeable.


>    7) Then comes implementation, documenttaion etc.

Is that the fun part?  ;-)

M

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Mark Wilkinson
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