[p3t] P3T mtg - Mon, Jun 24 @20 UTC

[Russ Allbery]

Janet Evans via p3t <p3t at ivoa.net> writes:

> I’ve spent some time today organizing the P3T twiki and adding notes
> from our last meeting.  At that mtg after lunch on May 22 we outlined
> our next steps and that included a meeting the 3rd week of June to touch
> base.  We all realized we need to get on with our phase 1 plans in
> earnest if we are to make our Fall Interop deadline.

> I’m going to take a chance and call it at the time we’ve been meeting
> previous to the Interop …

> *** P3T mtg:  Monday Jun 24 @20:00 UTC *** I’ll send a link to zoom
> closer to the date.

Hi everyone,

I won't be able to make the next meeting (regardless of the specific
schedule) since I'm about to disappear for a three week vacation, so I
wanted to send a bit of an update of what I'm working on and what my
upcoming plans are.

I'm currently extensively revising our SODA service, implementing the
existing protocol, to separate out as much code as possible into a
reusable library.  I am nearly but not entirely done with that and hope to
finish it when I return from vacation, after which our plan is to develop
some additional services based on that same underlying library.  While
that is in progress, I hope to add to that library an implementation of a
new JSON-based protocol in such a way that any service written using that
library can support both the old and new protocols.

Unless someone beats me to starting this, my tentative plan was to start
trying to draft the rough beginnings of four documents at the same time as
that library work:

* A document explaining the separation between service protocol and
  network encoding
* A protocol document for SODA
* A protocol document for UWS, VOSI, and the service pieces of DALI
* A network encoding document for JSON

SODA is not an obvious choice for other purposes, but it's a convenient
choice for me personally since it's the code base that I have already
available to play with.

I'll check in when I get back and adjust the plan based on what other
folks have been working on in the interim.  My guess is that the earliest
I'll be able to start on writing documents will be the middle of July, and
that's subject to the normal "estimating software development is hard"
caveats.

-- 
Russ Allbery (eagle at eyrie.org)             <https://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>