Assignments Breakout Session

A loose collection of preparatory notes for an assignments breakout discussion

Attendees confirmed thus far

Attendee

Institution

Lance Speelmon

IU

Oliver Heyer

UC Berkeley

Zhen Qian

UMich

Clay Fenlason

Georgia Tech

Carl Hall

Georgia Tech

Stuart Freeman

Georgia Tech

Ian Boston

Cambridge University

John Norman

Cambridge University

John Leasia

UMich

Kirk Alexander

UC Davis

High-level topics

  • Outstanding issues with the post-2.4 assignments branch (and fixing critical ones by January)
  • Assignments2 (RSF refactoring of assignments, being pursued by IU)
  • Mneme (will include assignments functionality by mid-2008)
  • Clarify and publicize to the community:
    • which "Assignments" they should be using in their 2.4 deployments and which should be avoided and why. (2.4.0, 2.4.1, 2.4.x, post-2.4)
    • what the various Assignments roadmaps are for the future (Assignments, Assignments2, Mneme)

Notes/position papers