Document Process Update

[Robert Olson]

I think I'm up to date on manuals, given that:

I don't see what it means for cert mgmt and access control documents to be 
merged; they address different topics, and

Right now, I think it's more important to make headway on apps stuff for SC 
demos than to convert over the datastore doc from tex/pdf to word; when the 
programmer's manual activity gains traction I'll get it switched over, and 
will thus only have to reformat once.

--bob

At 05:07 PM 10/3/2003 -0500, Ivan R. Judson wrote:

>Howdy,
>
>We currently have a few types of documents:
>
>Architecture Documents (These should all be word docs, with visio)
>Design Documents       (These  should all be word docs, with visio)
>                              (Example Outline in DesignOutline.doc and
>Template in AGDesign.dot)
>How-To Documents             (These should all be word docs)
>Implementation Notes   (These can be anything, they aren't for public
>consumption really,
>                                 but remember, not everyone has every
>tool...I don't have latex,
>                                 I do have pdf :-)
>Manuals              (These should all be in word)
>
>In order to close our last few issues on this cycle, I'd like us to get our
>design documents in synch with our current code. In order for that to
>happen, I'd like it if the following writing assignments were completed by
>the end of next week:
>
>Document                                Author  Action
>------------------------------------------------
>Virtual Venues Design           Ivan            Incorporate Event Service
>doc
>Venue Client Design             Susanne Incorporate Personal Node Design
>Venue Management Design         Susanne
>Data Store Design                       Eric
>Bridge Server Design            Tom
>Node Management Design          Tom             Incorporate Personal Node
>Design
>Certificate Management          Bob             Merge Certificate Management
>and Access Control Notes
>Datastore Client                        Bob             Converted to word,
>to be part of future programmers manual.
>Toolkit Core Design             Ivan            Convert Toolkit config and
>init doc
>
>Looking at CVS, we have more documents than this, which is good ;-). But, we
>do need to consolidate some, the documents that are being merged can be
>removed from cvs. If there are remaining implementation details that would
>be lost, they should be put in an implementation notes document.
>
>Thanks, we're so close to finishing this cycle I can taste it :-)
>
>--Ivan