Re: Airavata Workflow Enactment to support Amazon Simple Workflow Service

[Suresh Marru <sm...@apache.org>]

Hi Yaroslav,

As I notified you earlier too, with literally no coding and only one email
(after multiple pings) you have failed the GSoC project. Is there any
particular reason you couldn't do the project?

Thanks,
Suresh

On Thu, Jul 12, 2012 at 10:29 PM, Suresh Marru <sm...@apache.org> wrote:

> Hi Yaroslav,
>
> As we exchanged emails you are too late to start on the project. You
> really need to be very egressive in your development to have a chance of
> completing your project. Your time line looks reasonable but you really
> need to step up and be aggressive in your development. Do not hesitate to
> ask any questions about Airavata. Saminda has refactored XBaya
> significantly which should vastly simplify your tasks.
>
> Please develop your code in the apache extras (google code) svn repository
> - http://code.google.com/a/apache-extras.org/p/airavata-gsoc-sandbox/
>
> See more comments in-line:
>
>
> On Jul 12, 2012, at 6:27 PM, Yaroslav Porshnev wrote:
>
> > Hello.
> >
> > For this project I developed the following roadmap and timeline.
> >
> > Part 1
> > Establishing connection and authentication with Amazon SWF, and solve
> > general questions of communications among Airavata and Amazon SWF. (16
> > – 22 July)
>
> This task could be broken down into two steps a) write a java client to
> submit a simple SWF workflow and execute it. b) Integrate that client with
> XBaya GUI addressing authentication, authorization issues.
>
> > Part 2
> > Development of Airavata workflow transferring methods to Amazon SWF.
> > (23 July – 5 August)
> > Includes:
> > •     transformation of internal workflow representation into set of
> > commands for recreation of the workflow in Amazon SWF
> > •     connection of Amazon SWF with all needed resources for workflow
> execution
>
> Try running Airavata tutorials and samples to understand the workflow
> execution within Airavata.
>
> > Part 3
> > Development of workflow monitoring part. (6 – 14 August)
>
> August 13th is the pencil down date, you need to squeeze this development
> time line.
>
> > Part 4
> > Final overall testing and complete documentation. (15 – 20 August)
>
> Remember this is a absolute code freeze deadline, you will not get any
> extension, so you need to watch for the time lines.
>
> > And I have a question to Airavata developers.
> > There are several ways of connection to Amazon SWF. It can be done by
> > using HTTP POST requests to HTTP Service API with JSON as data format
> > or by using  AWS SDK for Java. It is mentioned that  HTTP API doesn’t
> > support some of Amazon functionality and I’m not yet sure if this
> > functionality will be needed in the project. So I would like to know
> > your opinion about which variant you think is better for the future
> > development of Airavata.
>
> Can you please provide more details on what exactly are the limiting
> features in the HTTP API approach? If your questions is about sustaining
> your integration and future, simple the integration the better.
>
> Glad to see you wake up from hibernation but would like to see you running
> if you intend to cross the finish line,
> Suresh
>
> > I would appreciate any comments or remarks.
> >
> > Best regards,
> > Yaroslav Porshnev.
>
>