Re: updates to proposal (was: Codebases and Tidbits and Moving towards a proposed vote)

Hi Angie,

>> But I'm still not happy with the sections on
>> "Initial Goals"/"High Level Design" and "Relationships
>> with Other Apache Products".  This has to do with all
>> the open design questions in the proposal. It is important
>> to document such questions and the decisions, but that
>> does not belong into the proposal. [...]
> 
> I can go either way.  As long as they are documented somewhere.  I think 
> the reason that they ended up there is that we currently don't have 
> anywhere else to document them.

We have this mailing list, which is archived:
http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/incubator-projects/
Once the podling gets started, we can put such
stuff up on a wiki or web page.

> 
>> 2. Define a roadmap for the "Inital Goals" section: [...]
> 
> Not sure how to word that well.  It could be the fever talking...

I can have a stab at it tomorrow. I'm usually
quite good with words, just wanted to discuss
the contents first.

>> The reason why I'm not jumping ahead with this is
>> that I am not sure yet whether my understanding of
>> the high level design is the current consensus.
> 
> I think that your understanding is my understanding.  It is what Luciano 
> has been coding toward, I think, and what Noel and I have discussed.

I'm still unclear about the role of Sling in this.
Is it just a "yeah, we *could* use that all right",
or is it really the intention "our UI will be built
on Sling"? In the latter case, there will be a
web service API for accessing the repository, and
a UI component that uses JCR directly (unless I am
mistaken about Sling). That's not a problem, but
something that people should be aware of.

> Didn't mean to exclude you from the community!  I changed it to include 
> architectural direction as well.

Thanks :-)

> I did make mention of the Roller discussions when I updated the proposal 
> but didn't include the links.

That's fine.

> Does anyone else have suggestions?  Feel free to update the proposal!

For a timeline, I suggest to finalize the proposal
this week. Then we can call for a vote either this
weekend or at the beginning of the next week. I am
available to engage in discussions next week.

Thoughts, anyone?

cheers,
   Roland