BTW, the mail went to: SAGA RG <saga-rg@ggf.org> DRMAA WG <drmaa-wg@gridforum.org> GridRPC WG <gridrpc-wg@ggf.org> Gabriele Allen <gallen@cct.lsu.edu> Malcom Atkinson <mpa@nesc.ac.uk> Henri Bal <bal@cs.vu.nl> Alexander Beck-Ratzka <alexander.beck-ratzka@aei.mpg.de> Chiaq Dekate <cdekate@cct.lsu.edu> Ian Foster <foster@mcs.anl.gov> Andrew Grimshaw <grimshaw@cs.virginia.edu> Stephan Hirmer <shirmer@cct.lsu.edu> Dayong Huang <dayong@csc.lsu.edu> Felix Hupfeld <hupfeld@zib.de> Andrei Hutanu <ahutanu@cct.lsu.edu> Keith Jacksin <krjackson@lbl.gov> Ceriel Jacobs <ceriel@cs.vu.nl> Konrad Karczewski <xeno@icis.pcz.pl> Hiro Kishimoto <hiro.kishimoto@jp.fujitsu.com> Dieter Kranzlmueller <dk@gup.jku.at> Lukasz Kuczynski <neron@icis.pcz.pl> Craig Lee <craig@rushg.aero.org> Jason Maasen <jason@cs.vu.nl> Satoshi Matsuoka <matsu@is.titech.ac.jp> Jon McLaren <maclaren@cct.lsu.edu> Reagan Moore <moore@sdsc.edu> Steven Newhouse <s.newhouse@omii.ac.uk> Ana Oprescu <aoprescu@few.vu.nl> Stephen Pickles <Stephen.Pickles@manchester.ac.uk> Thomas Radke <tradke@aei.mpg.de> Thorsten Schuett <schuett@zib.de> Ed Seidel <eseidel@cct.lsu.edu> John Shalf <jshalf@ncsa.uiuc.edu> Raul Sirvent <rsirvent@ac.upc.edu> Chris Smith <csmith@platform.com> David Snelling <David.Snelling@UK.Fujitsu.com> Osamu Tatebe <o.tatebe@aist.go.jp> Rob van Nieuwpoort <rob@cs.vu.nl> Gregor von Laszewski <gregor@mcs.anl.gov> Obviously, most won't answer, but if you know someone I forgot, please forward. Cheers, Andre. ----- Forwarded message from Andre Merzky <andre@merzky.net> -----
Date: Fri, 18 Aug 2006 17:15:53 +0200 From: Andre Merzky <andre@merzky.net> To: SAGA RG <saga-rg@ggf.org> Subject: [gridrpc-wg] SAGA Core API - last call for comments
Hi folks,
attached is the release candidate 1 of the SAGA Core API specification. We want to ask you for final comments and corrections before we submit the document to the editor.
Please note that several FIXME's are still in the text, and please note also that Appendix B contains a list of known open issues -- there is no need to report these issues back, as we are working on those already (of course, additions/comments/corrections to the issues are welcome).
We would like to ask you for feedback in respect to the following points:
- do you consider your use case implementable in that API? - is the API simple? - is it correct? - is the semantic what you would expect? - is the syntax what you would expect? - is the description detailed enough? - would you be able to implement the SAGA API with the spec? - any other comments?
The SAGA spec is by now a proud 213 page document. We don't expect everybody to read the whole lot (although that would be great ;-). So please feel free to pick those section you are interested in, and feel most comfortable with commenting on. We would like to recommend to read the General Design section though, or at least skim through it.
We would like to submit the spec into the editor pipeline in about two weeks from now - for tat reason, we would appreciate feedback in the next 10 days (deadline: Sunday, August 27th). Of course you will have the ooportunity to comment later as well, as the document will enter the 60 day public comment -- however, we wouold like to catch critical errors before that.
Please feel free to forward this request for feedback to whomever it may concern. Fedback is best given on the SAGA-RG mailing list (saga-rg@ggf.org), you'll have to subscribe to post though. Alternatively you can send email to me or the other authors (emails are given in the doc).
Many thanks for your time,
Andre and the other SAGA-RG/SAGA-CORE-WG chairs.
PS.: if you are don't know what SAGA is all about, have a look at our requirement document (GFD.71) at http://forge.ggf.org/sf/docman/do/downloadDocument/projects.saga-rg/docman.r... -- "So much time, so little to do..." -- Garfield