Congratulations and well done to All! But a note of special thanks to Andre -- who has in the past coupel of years steered the document through the process. Thanks Andre!
Hi Folx,
as of today, GFD.90 is officially a full OGF recommendation! Congratulations to us all :-)
On a technical note: we (GFSG) decided to keep the GFD number as is, and replace the document with the updated spec. The reason is that all (known) implementations are implementing the revised specification already, and the API changes to the previous revision are well document and mostly backward compatible. The document now refers to the API as "SAGA Core API Version 1.1", so that version is what our implementations are compliant with. The document now also contains an additional paragraph explaining the documents evolution.
The other SAGA document which are currently in the OGF pipeline are proceeding nicely - the core-experience document is officially ready to be published, and just needs to pass some formal amendments (assigning GFD number etc). The Message API and the Advert API extensions are in final GFSG review, and should be past that in about two weeks, and then also ready for publication as P-REC. No changes are expected to the documents at the moment.
For completeness I'd like to list the next four TODO items, in respect to document business:
- C++ language bindings - Python language bindings - Java language bindings - resource discover/management extension
Unless there is progress on these items it is likely useless to discuss them *again*, but please keep in mind that not having those is holding us back in several places...
Best, Andre.