Re: [Vrs-development] vrs momentum

[Chris Smith]

Yeah - I agree with this.

If there was just Bill and myself we were going to get a system up and 
running which consisted of a single LDS that could statisfy requests for 
services.

All the layers would be present (CM, RM, VM, netServer etc) and thus the 
basic skeletal API's between them.

Each layer would then be taken and 'enhanced' to provide the intended 
functionality, a little bit at a time.

For the RM to start farming data fragments out among LDS's in the cluster, 
the CM must work (or at least appear to through the API)) etc.......


How does this sound as a starting point?  We need diagrams.

Do we have a common set of modeling skills on this list????


Chris




On Sunday 21 July 2002 07:43, Eric Altendorf wrote:
> <agile development methodology rant>
>
> I mentioned this in private communication, so I'll mention it again
> here publicly.  The project we're looking at is so big, and our
> resources limited, that we're at a severe risk of getting caught in
> analysis paralysis, trying to do too much planning and design and
> never actually developing anything.
>
> I'd like to vote for the agile development principle of always having
> a working piece of software.  What this means is that we should start
> with a minimal design -- a design for a tiny sub-project that we can
> design in an hour.  Write up a design for that, implement it in the
> next week, make sure it works, then start adding functionality bit by
> bit.  We can have design talks on bigger stuff proceeding in
> parallel, but we gotta make sure we're coding and we have a working
> system at all times.
>
> If we try to do up-front design of large pieces of this project we'll
> get quagmired.  Top priority is to have a working system, even if it
> isn't yet exactly what we want.
>
> </obnoxiousness ;-) >
>
> eric
>
> On Friday 19 July 2002 21:29, Ian Fung wrote:
> > so i guess i should maybe start writing up some requirements and
> > then have people design and implement parts of the system? what do
> > you think the ETA is on the gw middleware? i kinda like to check it
> > out before i do any design. is there a way i can get web access so
> > i can post to the website and also upload irc logs. maybe when i
> > get something written we can meet on irc again to discuss it. of
> > course if anyone else would like to start writing stuff too that
> > would be great.
> >
> > ian

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