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Time: 1:00PM Eastern US (contact MichaelFiedler if you'd like to participate)

The Automation meetings alternate times each meeting to accommodate the global team.

Agenda

* Reoccurring agenda items:

* Main agenda items:

Minutes

Attending: Michael Fiedler, Charles Rankin, Paul McMahan? , Nathan Bak, Lucas Panjer, Pramod Chandoria, Daniel Berg, John Arwe, Eric Bordeau

* Primary topic was new proposal for representing parameters as distinct resources

  • General agreement on the approach with some follow up actions needed:
    • TODO: Michael Fiedler to kick off investigation of using the instance resource shape to more strongly type the parameter definitions. This would support the scenario raised where an automation consumer would provide its own UI to create automation requests (no delegated UI) and would need the parameter type to display the appropriate type of field in a request creation UI.
    • TODO: Lucas Panjer will elaborate on the scenarios he is aware of in this area - such as the Mylyn/Hudson scenarios. Lucas will send them to the mailing list
  • Issue on the naming of the parameters in the result. Some feel inputParameter and outputParameter are potentially misleading.
    • Confusing to consumers which parameters it should look at in the result
    • Intent is that "input" = used to create the request and copied from the request. "output" = modified or added during execution
    • suggestion: rename to initialParameter and additionalParameter
  • Other aspects of the parameter definitions and instances as documented in AutoSpecificationV1 seemed acceptable
* Discussion around automationInstructions in the Automation Plan
  • Intent is to provide a place for a plan to expose information on how the automation will take place. Could be binaries, human readable instructions etc.
  • Is this needed to satisfy the scenarios? Possibly for the test automation scenarios.
  • TODO: Paul McMahan? , Pramod Chandoria and possibly Charles Rankin will investigate/discuss.

* Next meeting: 2 February at 10AM Eastern US time

Topic revision: r2 - 27 Jan 2012 - 20:04:44 - MichaelFiedler
 
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