On quinta-feira, 2 de mar?o de 2017 14:16:26 PST Thiago Macieira wrote: > Hello all > > Finally getting to my action items from previous meetings of the Steering > Group. I will send an email on each of the two, new proposed functions, > detailing what is expected. We're looking for volunteers to assume the > position of Function Lead for organising IoTivity's API as well as > Buildsystem. We're asking for candidates since there is no natural > candidate.
The first of the two proposed functions is the API Review one. We need a person or a team to be willing to look into any API we design that is meant to be used by anyone except ourselves, and make sure that the API is consistent. Soon, we'd also like to make sure that our API is backwards compatible, so applications written with IoTivity version X will continue to compile and work with IoTivity version Y, provided Y >= X. This team will probably be tasked with reviewing the existing API as well, proposing changes, and establishing guidelines on how to review. The latter point will impact releasing: when is the API review supposed to happen, relative to the feature freeze and the releases? When is the API frozen for a given release? (note that Dino's release suggestion timetable had some elements of this) This is a technical function and the Function Lead is expected to be knowledgeable of C and C++ API designs[*]. [*] the team may propose dropping the C++ API. -- Thiago Macieira - thiago.macieira (AT) intel.com Software Architect - Intel Open Source Technology Center
