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Voting Page for Approving OpenAjax Metadata 1.0

This wiki page contains the formal voting form that allows members to vote on whether to approve the release of the OpenAjax Metadata 1.0 Specification. These membership votes represent recommendations to the OpenAjax Alliance Steering Committee, which will review the membership voting and then subsequently decide whether to formally approve the release of the OpenAjax Metadata 1.0 Specification.

The member voting period is from April 5, 2010 to April 12, 2010 (11:59pm US-PT). If the member voting shows a consensus towards approval, then the Steering Committee will vote after the members vote.

Background

The IDE Working Group, in conformance with its charter, has been working on OpenAjax Metadata 1.0 for over two years.

The IDE Working Group devoted significant effort towards:

• A complete and detailed formal Specification (the OpenAjax Metadata 1.0 Specification). This specification went through three separate detailed editorial reviews and multiple products have implemented major parts of the specification over the past couple of years.
• Open source implemenations at OpenAjax Alliance of major parts of the spec open source reference implementation
  • Open source implementation of an OpenAjax Widget loader (loader.js)
  • Open source converter from JSDoc inline comments into OAM's XML for describing JavaScript APIs
  • Open source converter from YUI's JSON format for describing their APIs into OAM's XML for describing JavaScript APIs
  • An [open source sample mashup application] that demonstrates how to build a mashup assembly application using OpenAjax Hub 2.0 and OpenAjax Widgets (defined in the OpenAjax Metadata 1.0 Specification)
• A online validator utility that allows developers to verify the syntax correctness of their metadata files
• A multiple-vendor interoperability event in 2008 (the 2008 InteropFest where various companies integrated their products and technologies with OpenAjax Hub and OpenAjax Widgets (see [press announcement])

Beyond the open source implementations done within OpenAjax Alliance listed above, we know of the following other implementations of key features found in the spec:

• The widget features are supported by Adobe Dreamweaver CS4 and are the preferred format for 3rd party widget extensions
• The widget features are supported by multiple IBM commercial products and research projects, including Rational Application Developer and IBM Mashup Center.
• Eclipse Foundation has an open source implementation of the OAM JavaScript API features within the JSDT component that is a standard piece of the Web Tools Project
• OAM's JavaScript API features are supported by Aptana Studio
• OAM's JavaScript API features are supported by IBM Rational Application Developer.

Per our formal process (see Members Agreement and Development Process), we held a Release Review phone call to allow all members to ask questions and provide feedback (see OpenAjax_Metadata_1.0_Release_Review). It is now time for the full membership of OpenAjax Alliance to cast their votes on whether to approve the OpenAjax Metadata 1.0 Specification.

Voting Form

Anyone who has a login to this wiki can vote. To vote, simply choose YES, NO, or OTHER from the popup menu below, then press on the "Submit Vote" button. Note: You must press "Submit vote" for your vote to be registered.

• A YES vote represents a simple +1 vote that says you vote to approve the release of the OpenAjax Metadata 1.0 Specification.
• A NO vote indicates that you disapprove the proposal. If you vote NO, please provide supplemental comments that explain why you disapprove.
• Choose OTHER for all other cases, such as when you generally approve of the proposal, but believe changes should be made. If you vote OTHER, please provide supplemental comments that explain your point of view.

The table after the "Submit vote" button shows a list of all votes cast so far, including any votes that you have cast.

If you encounter any bugs or other problems when attempting to vote or view the voting results, please report these issues immediately to jferrai(at)us.ibm.com.

NOTE: The voting period has closed.

Votes Table

Voter	Company	Vote	Comment
Jon Ferraiolo	IBM	YES
Bertrand Le Roy	Microsoft	YES
Lori Hylan-Cho	HylanCho	YES
Manos Batsis	abiss	YES
Alessandro Alinone	Lightstreamer	YES
Samuel Santos	PresentTechnologies	YES
Howard Weingram	TIBCO	YES
Kin Blas	Adobe	YES
Jonathan Bond-Caron	Goldeneye	YES
Matthias Hertel	MatthiasHertel	YES
Andrew Sledd	Ikivo	YES	A significant step! Good work!