Robotics Service Bus

h1. Meetings 2011-07-21

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h2. Report on IDL Repository (Florian)

* Testpage für web-basierten Katalog: https://citbox.cit-ec.uni-bielefeld.de
** Erreichbar innerhalb der Techfak
** Login via LDAP Credentials
** Programmiersprache als Tag-List
** Category (What is a category?)
*** It defines the URL under which the the component is available
** Where is the version information represented?
*** In the download file release?
** How to deal with new versions?
*** Copy old stuff to new node?
*** Use Drupal History for different revisions?
*** If mutiple versions are available, we should only display the latest
*** Lengthy discussion about semantics of version name identifies
*** Use version name identifier as reference to source code repository
** Source code fetched by web service
** Provide source code packages?
** Use Jenkins to provide these packages?
** In General: Existence of Jenkins Jobs as precondition for a toolkit component
* Is there a super-structure for systems or toolkits?

* Also non-toolkit components?
* Anforderung public- / non-public für interne Komponenten

* In catalogue
** toolkit, system as a category
** only version numbers
** link between Jenkins and Drupal is the big question

Decisions:
* Demos are persistent
* Component configuration is transient (only the latest versions are represented)
* Component configuration is persistent

* Question:
** How to migrate GAR Makefiles to the new System?



h3. Package names as Directories in RST (Jan)

h2. Report on XCF-RSB Transport-level Bridge (Robert)

h3. RSB Request / Reply Support (Jan/Sebastian)

h2. Connector Topology (Stefan)