Hi everyone. Minutes of this meeting are posted at: http://www.opensolaris.org/os/project/caiman/XML_Parsing/manifest_org_mtg_minutes_090617.txt
On 06/16/09 16:17, Jack Schwartz wrote: > Hi everyone. > > I am calling a meeting tomorrow regarding AI manifest organization. > We need to discuss the structure of the files again in a context of > scalability and a compelling user experience. > > I request that those people explicitly addressed attend, others are > most welcome as well. > > Meeting logistics: > 14:00 - 16:00 PST (2 hours, just in case) > Toll Free Dial In Number: (866)545-5227 > Int'l Access/Caller Paid Dial In Number: (215)446-3648 > ACCESS CODE: 7385082 > > The main issue is that the functional spec defines two or three files, > in two different formats, and that the user will probably have to edit > them to set up an installation. How to simplify this from the user > point of view and make this a more compelling experience? How to set > the files up to make it as easy for a first-time one-system user as > for an admin of a large lab with many different groups of systems? > > We have many factors to consider. > - One hard constraint: The System Configuration (SC) manifest must be > a DTD to fit as an enhanced SMF profile. > - We can't rely on existence of GUI tools to set up the files. > - We don't want to have the contents of the SC manifest specified in > another schema format because we don't want to make users learn two > different formats for specifying the same data. > - RelaxNG schema is much easier to read and work with than DTDs. > > Agenda: > > Let's start with a few minutes (really) to discuss broadening the > problem statement and set the tone. I'll suggest the following to > start things: > > "AI manifest structure and organization should be easy to use and > understand, and scale to a wide variety of installation environments." > > Then we'll move into discussing what our options are to solving this > problem. > > Thanks, > Jack > > P.S. I'd like to leverage what we already have, at: > http://www.opensolaris.org/os/project/caiman/XML_Parsing/xml_2_func_spec.6.pdf > > > >
