Ingres OpenROAD At Summit 08
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This page contains a summary of activities relating to OpenROAD at the Ingres Open Engineering Summit '08 in Punta Cana, Dominican Republic from April 23,-24, 2008.
by Bodo Bergmann
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Presentations
OpenROAD Community Process - David Tondreau
David gave a presentation about how OpenROAD should work in the Open Source space, including topics like building the community, facilitating community contributions and opening up the engineering process. He also explained our plan to have a community codeline (Empire) which is separate from the commercial in in order to provide a better environment to support contributions, etc. (similar to the Fedora - RedHat model). His presentation is available here.
BTW: The DBMS guys now plan to follow the same model, so we are kind of a forerunner. See the OpenROAD community pages Ingres_OpenROAD_Home for more information.
OpenROAD Architecture Directions - Durwin Wright
Durwin talked about what has happened since last year (i.e. Unicode support), provided ideas about the future of the OpenROAD server, i.e. to remove the DCOM dependency. His presentation is available here.
Source Control with OpenROAD - Bodo Bergmann
My presentation started from listing some limitations of the OpenROAD Repository and the current export file format and the idea that a common Software Configuration Management (SCM) system, e.g. Subversion, combined with a new XML-based export file format could provide the functionality required in many development groups. I then talked about the status of implementing some required features to support this (Generic XML support classes & XML Export), and some ideas what new options they offer for OpenROAD development.
BTW: We will soon make the functional specs and design documents for the new XML features available to the community.
TransForge - Kim Ginnerup(Bording Data) & John Mahony
This was a great joint presentation between a partner and a member of the OpenROAD Development team, that demonstrated the experiences and benefits of a Development partnership - in this case for the TransForge (ABF->OpenROAD conversion) solution. The result was a win-win situation for both sides: The partner gets what he wants (the ultimate, cost-effective transformation of his legacy applications) and Ingres improved its solution set (Transforge) to get better product and service quality. It had the biggest "Wow" effect when Kim showed his "Before" (ABF) and "After" (OpenROAD/Web) screens.
Ingres Alchemy - Neil Warnock, Luminary
This session was about experiences with Luminary's service offering "Ingres Alchemy" to future-proof/modernize/beautify applications. It was not OpenROAD-centric, but I mention it, as Luminary uses a lot of OpenROAD technology within their "Alchemy" techniques, e.g. to get from a pure client-server application to a multi-tiered SOA-enabled architecture. Neil also told great success stories and had nice before/after screenshots available.
Development Sprint (hands-on sessions)
These activities were designed to meld the brains of the Ingres OpenROAD Development team with those of community developers in a speed-oriented activity designed to quickly add new features to OpenROAD. Kim Ginnerup of Bording Data A/S and the OpenROAD Development team won this year's Ingres Open Engineering Development Sprint Contest in Punta Cana by implementing a new HashObject system class. Read more about it on Kim's OpenROAD community user page.
