[Go-essp-tech] esg gateway timing questions

[Luca Cinquini]

Hi Bryan,
	I only have some of the answers you are looking for, I will insert  
them inline in this reply and the next, maybe the other questions can  
be addressed by others or during a telecon:
thanks, Luca

On Nov 16, 2009, at 4:01 AM, Bryan Lawrence wrote:

>
> Hi Folks
>
> Sorry I couldn't attend the telco last week, but I've just listened  
> to the audio (thanks Dean, recording these discussions is a *great*  
> service ...)
>
> I have some questions that result, I'll split them into two emails  
> coz they're of a different nature.
>
> I understand the proposed gateway release schedule, beta1, beta2 ...  
> rc ... release.
>
> What I don't understand is the functionality expected with each stage.
Unfortunately it's not completely defined yet, also because new  
requirements keep popping up all the time. The goal is to have  
everything
working by March, when the system goes operational, and to work on all  
pieces of functionality as their criticality is bumped up the stack.
>
> When will you freeze functionality for the release?
By beta-2, january 15, according to the schedule.
>
> When will the support for showing data published by remote gateways  
> appear? (I think I have understood previously that although the OAI  
> interface for harvesting from gateways exists, it's not functional???)
Actually the OAI functionality should working just fine, although we  
need to test it extensively in a deployed environment, with different  
administrators running the harvesting as they please.
>
> I know we're going to get to the details of versioning anon, but  
> when would it appear (or  would versioning functionality be  
> staggered between releases)?
Versioning should be in by January 15th also, according to the plan...
>
> When would support for replication appear (in particular, the  
> support for all gateways showing all replicants)?
>
> Thanks in advance,
> Bryan
>
> -- 
> Bryan Lawrence
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> (NCAS/British Atmospheric Data Centre and NCEO/NERC NEODC)
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