Cosmos Architecture Meeting 17-July-08

These are the minutes for the Architecture Meeting for 17 July 2008.

Attendees

• David W.
• Martin
• Jack
• JT
• Leonard
• Paul
• Sheldon
• Ali
• Jimmy

Agenda

• Security
  • We have basic authentication in place for COSMOS 1.0
  • Does anyone have any additional 1.0 requirements?
• COSMOS 2.0: Need to know at least at a very high level what 2.0 may address.
  • What should COSMOS 2.0 do in regards to the code COSMOS 1.0 architectural components?
  • Are there any thoughts on extending the SML tooling?
  • Will COSMOS 2.0 be about providing a reference implementation for some form of an Information Model that may be defined elsewhere?
• Internationalization: Need to establish how the locale is passed to the various components. Mark W. will ask Ruth to verify that we are in compliance with any Eclipse requirements.
  • Ruth says read this:
    • Eclipse Globalization Guidelines
    • How to internationalize your Eclipse plug-in (How to)
    • How to test your internationalized plug-in (How to)
    • bugzilla 220261 (Maybe we can leverage this?)
  • Ruth also points out that Bjorn said that we can go into the Release review stating that we are not compliant with Eclipse guidelines as long as our consumers are okay with that. (The one exception being Legal requirements. We have to follow the rules for those.) If we are not compliant with Eclipse guidelines, if we can say that all of our consumers are okay with that, then it is not a roadblock for the release review. Thus it is Ruth's opinion that all internationalization* is mandatory for v1.0 but not v0.9.
  • David: The amount of i18n for various parts of COSMOS will vary. There are no adequate Eclipse guidelines on the i18n expectations for web UIs.