DALServer V0.1 information (SSAP, DAL)

[Pedro Osuna]

> In my opinion, the requirement for two working implementations of a service 
> before PR should mean that at least two people actually wrote software that 
> complies with the spec -

it is not the software that has to comply with the spec, but the service
that the specification describes. In this case, the SSAP (that's a
protocol, not a software) and the services that implement the Protocol,
not the software that produced them.

I am advocating for _collaboration_ and effort sharing, rather than
competition. 

And in this particular case, to not ignore that there are already
existing services implementing a specification prior to 1.0 and have
been happily working for years.

P.












For the rest, everyone is free to build whatever they want. 

On Fri, 2007-01-26 at 09:36 -0800, Patrick Dowler wrote:
> On Friday 26 January 2007 03:52, Pedro Osuna wrote:
> > we have received your mail with some surprise.
> ...
> > I think this efforts should be better coordinated in the future to avoid
> > unnecessary reduplication of work. This is specially relevant for the
> > already ongoing evolution of the SSAP protocol, in which many of us have
> > been working since long ago.
> 
> In my opinion, the requirement for two working implementations of a service 
> before PR should mean that at least two people actually wrote software that 
> complies with the spec - rather than one piece of software and a couple of 
> deployments. So I think it is a good thing that multiple groups interpret the 
> spec and write code according to their understanding; that's the only way to 
> test the spec.
> 
-- 
Pedro Osuna Alcalaya

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