RE: WIMS> CIM - Order of next printing updates

From: William A Wagner (wamwagner@comcast.net)
Date: Sat Oct 27 2007 - 20:15:45 EDT

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    Ira,

    If I understand, you are suggesting to first do a CR to Print Service adding
    those elements that are intended to be relocated from Printer, then doing a
    through CR for Printer. I guess the question might be, could a minimal CR to
    Print Service pass though quickly?
    The effect would appear to be to allow a speedier completion of Printer at
    the possible cost of delaying completion of Print Service (probably a good
    tradeoff).

    Thanks,

    Bill Wagner

    -----Original Message-----
    From: owner-wims@pwg.org [mailto:owner-wims@pwg.org] On Behalf Of Ira
    McDonald
    Sent: Saturday, October 27, 2007 6:32 PM
    To: wims@pwg.org; Ira McDonald
    Subject: WIMS> CIM - Order of next printing updates

    Hi,

    We have four or five small edits to do in the various Printer subunit
    classes
    (after CIM v2.17 is published, when we can do 2.18 revisions).

    But we also have three kinds of substantive edits to do in Printer:
    (1) Add Printer MIB v1 and v2 missing properties (a handful)
    (2) Deprecate properties now represented better in subunit classes.
    (3) Deprecate properties to be "moved" (i.e., copied) to PrintService.

    In phone discussions, Rick has suggested to me that we'll "have to revise
    CIM_Printer several times" (because you can't do item (3) above until
    AFTER service properties have already been copied to PrintService,
    because a deprecated property MUST refer to the replacement one).

    But there is a very serious impedance filter in CIM updates - only ONE CR
    against a given class can be processed in a CIM update cycle (four months).
    And a new CR can't be written for a class until the previous CIM version is
    actually *published* (several more months).

    So, I suggest that we get a little smarter and do a small update FIRST to
    PrintService, and then submit all three items in Printer and be DONE with
    Printer.

    The calendar difference would be four to six months sooner.

    Comments?

    Cheers,
    - Ira 

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Ira McDonald (Musician / Software Architect)
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