technical spec for the workstation up for review

[Adam Williamson]

On Wed, 2014-02-19 at 13:56 -0500, Josh Boyer wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 19, 2014 at 1:38 PM, Adam Williamson <awilliam at redhat.com> wrote:
> > On Wed, 2014-02-19 at 06:53 -0500, Christian Schaller wrote:
> >> Hi Adam,
> >> Yes, some items might fall partly or fully upon the base WG, but we (as their 'customers')
> >> need to clearly specify what we need them to deliver. The base WG todo list needs to be
> >> based upon the needs and requirements of the 3 product WGs, not the other way around.
> >
> > I agree there needs to be communication and co-ordination here, I'm just
> > not sure the workstation technical specification is the place for that
> > communication to happen.
> >
> > What I was guessing would happen would be that the 'product' WGs and the
> > base WG would have the discussion in some other forum - a mailing list
> > thread, a different wiki page, whatever - and the requirements formed as
> > a result of that discussion would be a part of the base WG's
> > specification, and the product specifications could then reference the
> > base specification where appropriate.
> 
> Someone needs to start the list somewhere.  The Base WG hasn't done
> anything of this nature at all.  The spec can be sent to them for
> review, which I believe Jaroslav has volunteered to do.
> 
> > Otherwise it seems like we'll wind up with something unwieldy like the
> > base specification *and* each of the product specifications all
> > containing the same text (or, worse, different text for the same
> > requirements), which seems suboptimal.
> 
> I agree that's a possibility, but I'd rather _one_ of the WGs start by
> trying to be productive and then reaching out instead of having them
> all just sit around waiting for each other.

Sure, if the long-term plan is to rationalize things down as Matthew
also suggested, sounds fine.
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