PEP

Our goal is to open the main CVS branch for 2.6 submittals no later than January 1, 2006. To support this goal, the 2.5.1 branch must be sufficiently stable by Dec. 30, 2005 that the overhead associated with actively fixing defects in both the MAIN and 2.5.1 branch is minimal.
Schedule should sufficiently align with the January 09-13, 2006 SNIA Plugfest schedule to allow vendors to base their Plugfest submission on the OpenPegasus 2.5.1 source base. The OpenPegasus 2.5.1 schedule should support both pre and post Plugfest defect fixes. (Note: Although the source must be stable, pre-release versions of OpenPegasus are acceptable for use during the Plugfest.)

Functionality Constraints

Unless explicitly approved as an exception, this release

MUST NOT regress functionality
MUST NOT regress quality
MUST be backward compatible with PEP#040, 2.4 (PEP#189) and 2.5 (PEP#209) developed Providers and Clients.
All new development MUST be compliant and MUST NOT regress compliance with the following DMTF Specifications:
- Specification for CIM Operations over HTTP, version 1.1.
- Representation of CIM in XML, version 2.1.
- XML Document Type Definition, version 2.1.
- CIM Schema 2.9

2 Requirements

2.1 Process Requirements

PEP	Description	Intended Maturity Level	Sponsor	PEP Submitted MM/DD/YY	PEP Approved MM/DD/YY	Planned FC Date MM/DD/YY	Actual FC Date MM/DD/YY

2.2 Functional Requirements

The intend of this section is to describe changes to 2.5.1 that could significantly impact release quality or schedule. Note: For a detailed description of OpenPegasus activity, please refer to the OpenPegasus 2.5.1 Wiki page.

2.2.1 Proposed Changes to OpenPegasus Project Feature Status Page.

Product	Feature Component	Current Maturity Level	Planned Maturity Level	Sponsor	Bug #s	Proposed Activity
Pegasus CIM Server	Out-of-Process Providers	Yellow	Green	HP		Increase feature code coverage to meet or exceed CTC release metrics (Breadth=70%; Depth=49%) Status: Promotion to "Green" by SC Ballot 2006-04.
Pegasus Provider Interfaces	Provider User Context/Linux and Unix	Yellow	Green	HP		Status: Promotion to "Green" by SC Ballot 2006-04.
Pegasus Security	Certificate-based Authentication (CIM Operation)	Yellow	Green	HP		Increase feature code coverage to meet or exceed CTC release metrics (Breadth=70%; Depth=49%) Fix critical/serious defects. Status: Deferred. Insufficient code coverage to recommend change.
Pegasus Security	SSL Certificate Management	Yellow	Green	HP		Add tests for certificate chains that are greater than 2. Increase feature code coverage to meet or exceed CTC release metrics (Breadth=70%; Depth=49%) Address critical functional limitation by displaying the user name associated with the certificate. Status: Deferred. Insufficient code coverage to recommend change.
Pegasus Repository	Binary Encoding for Repository	Yellow	Green	Inova		Status: Promotion to "Green" by SC Ballot 2006-01.
Pegasus CIM Server	Server Statistics	Red	Yellow	Inova		Status: Approval pending March 17 Architecture Team Review and March 20 Steering Committee Vote. (This will be the final 2.5.1 vote.)
Pegasus Indication Handlers	CIM-XML Indication Handler::HTTPS	Red	Green	HP	4348	Modify IndicationStressTest to test and verify use of HTTP and HTTPS, by the CIM-XML Indication Handler, to send Indications. Include enhanced tests as part of the Nightly Build. Increase feature code coverage to meet or exceed CTC release metrics (Breadth=70%; Depth=49%) 4348 - RESOLVED FIXED - 2005-11-08. Status: Deferred. Although code coverage has significantly improved to, on the average, 84%/50% it is still insufficient to recommend change.
Pegasus Provider Interfaces	CMPI	Red on "other"	Green on "other"	IBM	4224 4280 4298 4323 4334	4224: RESOLVED FIXED - 2005-12-20 4280: RESOLVED FIXED - 2006-01-26 4298: RESOLVED FIXED - 2006-01-26 4323: RESOLVED DUPLICATE 4334: RESOLVED FIXED - 2005-12-15 Status: Deferred. Although CMPI is now running on multiple platforms and code coverage has increased. At 48% / 30%, it is still insufficient to recommend change.
Pegasus Provider Interfaces	Remote CMPI	Red	Green	IBM	3997 3913 4289	Status: Deferred to 2.6. There are outstanding defects that need to be resolved and code coverage needs to increase.

2.2.2 FC5/RHEL5 Release Candidate

Description	Sponsor	Bugzilla #s
Changes to align OpenPegasus and Red Hat RPM packaging and configuration options.	HP	4482: RESOLVED FIXED - 2005-11-19 4576: RESOLVED FIXED - 2005-12-13 Status: Done. OpenPegasus RPM packaging has been restructured to align with Red Hat strategy

2.2.3 Performance Enhancements

Description	Sponsor	Bugzilla #s
Joint Inova/IBM Performance Improvements (Phase 1). Note: Indication and OOP Performance Improvements were not investigated as part of this Phase.	Inova and IBM	4225: RESOLVED FIXED - 2006-01-19 Status: Completed. These changes have significantly improved performance.

2.2.4 Miscellaneous - Enhancement Bugzillas

Description	Sponsor	Bugzilla #s
Add support for Net-SNMP-based implementation of SNMP Indication Handler	HP	4286: RESOLVED FIXED - 2005-12-01 Status: Coding is complete. Pegasus Indication Handlers/SNMP Indication Handler functionality remains 'RED' due to insufficient test coverage.
Test RPM Enhancements	HP	4348: IndicationStressTestEnhancements - RESOLVED FIXED - 2005-11-08 Status: Indication Stress Tests have been added to the Test RPM.
Minor enhancements to support January 2006 SNIA Plugfest. (Note: One of the key drivers for this plugfest will be Indications.)		Status: Several minor problems fixed to aid passage of the SNIA CTP tests for SMI-s 1.1 in January and February 2006 SNIA Plugfests
Correct Solaris GNU Deficiencies	Inova Symantec	4179: Status: Fix submitted, but testing has been delayed due to hardware failures. We are still hoping to complete a successful test run prior to the release of 2.5.1. Please refer to the OpenPegasus Nightly Build and Regression Testing Status (http://cvs.opengroup.org/cgi-bin/pegasus-build-status.cgi) page for the latest status.
Add Support for Solaris CC Compiler	Inova Symantec	Status: Completed. Final 2.5.1 regression testing has been delayed due to hardware issues.

2.2.5 Exception PEPs

PEP	Description	Intended Maturity Level	Sponsor	PEP Submitted MM/DD/YY	PEP Approved MM/DD/YY	Planned FC Date MM/DD/YY	Actual FC Date MM/DD/YY
233	Embedded Instances	Green	EMC	5/25/05	Deferred to 2.6
225	Add GNU Coverage Tool Support		IBM	3/16/05	12/19/05		02/02/2006

2.3 Significant Defect Fix Requirements

Description	Sponsor	Bugzilla #s
Resolution of shutdown problems.	HP	4180: RESOLVED FIXED - 2005-11-17 4079: DEFERRED 4078: RESOLVED FIXED - 2005-11-17
Resolution of SSL Connection problems.	HP	4273: RESOLVED FIXED - 2005-12-07

3 Platform Advocates

This table does not imply any specific commitment by the Platform Advocate to provide support for Pegasus 2.5.1.

Description	Sponsor
AIX	IBM
HP-UX PA-RISC	HP
HP-UX IA-64	HP
i5/OS	IBM
Linux IA-32	IBM
Linux X86_64	HP
Linux IA-64	HP
Linux on Power PC	IBM
Mac OS X	SPSOFT
OpenVMS	HP
Solaris versions 8, 9 and 10
Solaris x86-64
Windows 2000, 2003	EMC
Windows XP	EMC
Windows IA-64
Windows x86-64
z/OS	IBM
Linux on zSeries	IBM

4 Quality Metrics

4.1 Functional Test Passing

	Percent Passed
FC	80%
CTC	100%

4.2 Code Coverage

Note: Nightly code coverage results are included in the "HP-UX IPF" Nightly Build & Regression Testing Status reports (http://cvs.opengroup.org/cgi-bin/pegasus-build-status.cgi). The BullseyeCoverage tool is used to generate the statistics. Currently all "built" files are included in the statistics.

	Breadth	Depth
FC	70%	40%
CTC	70%	49%

4.3 Defect Density

Defect Density statistics are based on number of defects per non-commented source (NCSL). Refer to PEP 14 (Pegasus Release Milestones) for a definition of the release metrics. The following table defines the recommended/acceptable defect density for the OpenPegasus 2.5.1 release.

	Blocker	Critical/Major	Normal	Minor/Trivial
FC (Goal/Acceptable)	0/0	1/2	3/5	5/10
CTC (Goal/Acceptable)	0/0	0/0.5	1/2	4/4

Based on approximately 250K lines of non-commented source (NCSL), the following table defines the recommended/acceptable defect counts for the OpenPegasus 2.5.1 release.

	Blocker	Critical/Major	Normal	Minor/Trivial
FC (Goal/Acceptable)	0/0	250/500	750/1250	1250/2500
CTC (Goal/Acceptable)	0/0	0/125	250/500	1000/1000

4.4 Continuous Hours of Operation (CHO)

	Hours of operation goal
Acceptable	72

5 Schedule

5.1 Release Milestone Schedule

Release Milestone	Planned Date MM/DD/YY	Revised Date MM/DD/YY	Actual Date MM/DD/YY
CVS Open for 2.5.1 Development			09/27/05
Requirement Sign-off (RSO)	10/26/05	11/7/05	11/14/05
Functionality Complete (FC)	11/18/05		11/18/05
Release Candidate	12/06/05	02/24/06	03/06/2006
MAIN Branch Open for 2.6 Submittals	12/30/05	02/06/06	02/17/06
Certification Test Complete (CTC)	02/06/06	03/20/06	03/20/06
Ship Release (SR)	02/20/06	04/03/06

5.2 Code Commit Schedule

2005-10 (October)
Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday	Friday
03	04	05	06	07
10	11	12	13	14
17 Performance Improvements Phase 1 Start	18	19	20	21
24	25	26	27	28
31

2005-11 (November)

Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday

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02
Performance Improvements Phase 1 Functionality Complete

03

04

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08

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11
Performance Enhancements V2 (No bug # to date)

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6 Release Deliverables

ID	Deliverable	Sponsor	Comments
6.0.1	Updated OpenPegasus Download Page	Open Group
6.0.2	Pegasus 2.5.1 Source SnapShot (consistent with CVS RELEASE_2_5_1 branch)
6.0.3	Pegasus 2.5.1 Binary Releases by Platform		Availability will vary depending on platform.

7 Release PEPs

ID	Description	Owner	PEPs
7.1	OpenPegasus 2.5.1 ReadMe PEP	Kirk (TOG)	251
7.2	OpenPegasus 2.5.1 Release Notes PEP	Schopmeyer (TOG)	249
7.4	OpenPegasus 2.5.1 SDK Packaging Definition PEP	Eckstein (HP)	243
7.5	OpenPegasus 2.5.1 Packaging Definition for Selected Platforms PEP	Eckstein (HP)	242
7.6	Recommended OpenPegasus 2.5.1 Build and Configuration Options for Selected Platforms PEP	Eckstein (HP)	237
7.7	OpenPegasus 2.5.1 Release Definition PEP	Eckstein (HP)	239
7.8	OpenPegasus 2.5 External Interface PEP	Eckstein (HP)	209

Appendix A Version History

Version	Date	Author	Change Description
1.0	10/17/05	Denise Eckstein	Initial Submission
1.1	10/27/05	Denise Eckstein	Added Schedule Constraints subsection to section 1.3 (Release Constraints). Additional changes based on version 1.0 review comments.
1.2	11/01/05	Denise Eckstein	Additional changes based on version 1.1 review comments.
1.3	11/03/05	Denise Eckstein	Updated Section 5.1 Release Milestone Schedule
1.4	11/07/05	Denise Eckstein	Added "Proposed Activity Section to section 2.2.1 (Proposed Changes to OpenPegasus Project Feature Status Page). Added "MAIN Branch open for 2.6 submittals" milestone.
1.5	11/07/05	Denise Eckstein	Added CMPI items to section 2.2.1 (Proposed Changes to OpenPegasus Project Feature Status Page). Added CIM 2.10 Schema Upgrade Item to "Under Consideration" section. Approved by Steering Committee Ballot 2005-12. November 14, 2005.
1.6	12/03/05	Denise Eckstein	Added RSO Actual Date (11/14/05); FC Actual Date (11/18/05) Sorted entries in Platform Advocate table. Approved (Steering Committee Ballot 2005-12)
1.7	01/31/06	Denise Eckstein	Updated PEP with more current release status information.
1.8	02/20/06	Denise Eckstein	Updated status of PEP 225. Updated status of Bugs 4286, 4348, 4180, 4079, 4078, 4273, 4348, 4225, 4482, 4576, 4224, 4280, 4298, 4323, 4334 Added "MAIN Branch Open for 2.6 Submittals" Actual Date of 02/17/2006.
1.9	02/22/06	Denise Eckstein	Removed "Under Consideration" Section Added TOG as the owner of the ReadMe and Release Notes PEPs. Added "Revised Dates" for Release Candidate, CTC and SR Milestones. Updated the following platform names: z/OS and Linux on zSeries Approved - Ballot 109 - Feb 24, 2006
1.10	03/07/06	Denise Eckstein	Reopened on March 07, 2006 to capture additional status updates.
1.11	03/09/06	Denise Eckstein	Status updates per 1.10 review comments.
1.12	03/09/06	Denise Eckstein	Updated status for CMPI.
1.13	03/12/06	Denise Eckstein	More status updates. Updated CTC and SR Dates.
1.14	03/20/06	Denise Eckstein	Added CTC "Actual Date" Added PEP # for 2.5.1 ReadMe Approved - Ballot 113 - March 21, 2006

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