perfsonar development work

[Loukik Kudarimoti <>]

Loukik Kudarimoti wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> From the forthcoming release onwards, we plan to introduce a 'hand 
> over' process that the development teams of various services will have 
> to follow in order to get their software services included within the 
> perfSONAR bundle release. The purpose of this hand over process is to 
> ensure the following:
>
> * Quality of software (interface specifications, stability, performance)
> * Well documented software (user documents, interface and 
> functionality specifications, ..)
> * Testing by an independent testing team (based on specifications 
> provided by the development team)
> * Provide support for organizations which have installed this 
> software. This support can be provided because the handed over 
> software has been well tested and well documented.
>
> A DRAFT document explaining the concept of Hand over as applicable for 
> the perfSONAR project, what constitutes the Hand over process and how 
> does this Hand over work along-side various other software engineering 
> processes is explained in the attached document.
>
> We would like to seek your comments and suggestions on this document. 
> Section (3.C) in particular can be a very debatable topic. The current 
> consensus among developers is to go with Approach 2 as described in 
> Section (3.C). Please also note that we plan to include templates for 
> all required documents in the Annexe. This currently isn't the case.
>
> Since we will be using this process for the forthcoming release, 
> unfortunately, we can only accept comments for a limited period of 
> time (until 29th of December). 

Typo: This date is actually meant to be 29th of November (oops... )

Loukik.
> So, if you could review the document and post comments by this date, 
> it would be appreciated. (But of course, the hand over process will 
> continue to be refined in future based on experiences and suggestions. 
> So by no means is this document final for all perfSONAR releases. 
> Rather, it will soon be final only for the forthcoming release).
>
> Please Note: This document is still DRAFT and open to comments and 
> suggestions. It is not the final version that should be used and 
> followed by all developers.
>
> Regards,
> Loukik.