Thanks for the quick response on the SPL proposal. I've tried to gather the questions and respond to them in one e-mail. Please me know if I missed anything.
David Naming ------------- Seems like the consensus is that SPL isn't a good name. We'll find another. (Not sure I could get IBM to clear "Mordac". :-) ) Licenses --------------- The SPL prototype was developed from scratch, so the licenses for PDL and Ponder would not encumber SPL. I think we also note in the text that the prototype SPL engine will submitted with a CCLA if the incubator proposal is accepted, so we'll be following the standard Apache route. FWIW, I did find that Ponder is released under that GNU Lesser General Public License; I couldn't find any current information on PDL. On the standard itself, not surprisingly, the DMTF encourages implementations, and at submission, the DMTF requires this text: "Permission to copy, display, perform, modify and distribute the specification, and to authorize others to do the foregoing, in any medium without fee or royalty is hereby granted for the purpose of developing and evaluating the Specification. The Specification may be published as one or more separate documents including for example as ASCII formats, schema or metadata files rather than solely as a single document. "Co-Developers agree to grant a license to third parties, under royalty-free and otherwise reasonable, non-discriminatory terms and conditions, to their respective Essential Patent Rights (as that term is defined in the DMTF Patent and Technology Policy) that are necessary to implement the Specification in accordance with the DMTF Patent and Technology Policy." Lokahi ----------- I looked at what's on the web site, and it appears to be a management infrastructure that provides a GUI and instrumentation (agents) that allows administrative commands issues at the GUI to be executed by the agents. Assuming I'm not missing anything fundamental, I think the two would be integrated by: 1. Enhancing the Lokahi's GUI so it could be used specify SPL policies. (We'd probably add a CLI, too.) 2. Extending the Lokahi database schema so SPL policies specified in the Lohahi GUI (or CLI) could be stored there. 3. Adding the ability to send SPL policies to Lokahi agents. 4. Adding the SPL engine to the Lokahi agent. 5. Adding the ability to send SPL status to the Lokahi GUI and logs. This would allow some management to occur automatically at the agent, instead of requiring administrator intervention at the "console." (That might address the "how to integrate with other Apache projects"; if not, please let me know, and I can clarify.) Tomcat ------------- We're open to suggestions regarding the order in which we add bindings to APIs, and doing such bindings isn't terribly hard. If Tomcat is particularly critical as an early demonstration, we can add that to the proposal. And, of course, the code is (suppose to be) modular, so others could at it at any time.
