Pegasus Enhancement Proposal (PEP)

PEP #: 097

Title: Pegasus 2.4 Release Definition

Version: 1.28

Created: 05 October 2003

Authors: Denise Eckstein, Hewlett-Packard

Status: Approved (Ballot 72)

Table of Contents

Outstanding Items

Abstract

1 Release Overview

1.1 Product Objectives

1.2 Release Objectives

1.3 Release Constraints

2 Requirements

2.1 Process Requirements

2.2 Functional Requirements

2.3 Significant Defect Fix Requirements

3 Platform Advocates

4 Quality Metrics

4.1 Functional Test Passing

4.2 Code Coverage

4.3 Defect Density

4.4 Continuous Hours of Operation (CHO)

5 Schedule

5.1 Release Milestone Schedule

5.2 EVO Cycle Definitions

6 Release Deliverables

Appendix A Version History

Outstanding Items

ID	Description	Owner	Status
1	Should we move to CIM Schema 2.8? (See section 1.3) What about the CIM Operation specification levels?	TOG	Resolved. PEP 166 to change the OpenPegasus 2.4 default CIM Schema version from 2.7 to 2.8 has been approved.
2	For this release do we want to consider the idea of core and non-core function? If so, would core functional changes be placed on a different schedule than non-core? For 2.4 we should consider this, but keep all items on current proposed schedule. (Warren Grunbok)		Deferred. Further Pegasus Core definition activity is deferred to a subsequent release.
3	I think this (i.e., Pegasus 2.4 Binary Releases by Platform) has to be per platform -- are we assuming the platform advocates will do this? And if a platform declines can someone else volunteer? Net: it needs to be optional and per platform. (Is binary going to be rebuilt when bugs are fixed in rel? etc.) (Ed Boden)		Deferred. Definition of a general process for providing OpenPegasus binaries is deferred to a subsequent release. However, some level of process experimentation is expected to occur during the 2.4 timeframe.
4	Will Pegasus 2.4 support Windows 2003? If so, will support include both IA32 and IA64 platforms?	EMC	Resolved. "Yes will support 2003.  Currently planning to support 32 bit only"-  Rich Roscoe
5	Does AIX support include both 32-bit and 64-bit versions?	IBM	Resolved. 32 bit mode only is supported in current Pegasus support for AIX. (Warren G.)
6	Recommend considering the use of doxygen (www.doxygen.org) to perform documentation generation. (David Dillard)		doxygen activity is considered to be low priority of this release.
7	Discuss placement of the following IBM items: -Bug Fixing, -Testing imp., -Cross-CIMOM, -PPM enhancements, -spt in cimom for hierarchy in name space		Resolved. Added item 2.2.3.16 - Cross cimom associations; 2.2.3.17 - Test Enhancements; 2.2.1.7 - PPM enhancements; 2.2.3.14 - Support in CIMOM for hierarchy in name space
8	Need clarification of Karl's comment "Item 2.2.3.12 should be broken into multiple functions"		Resolved. Item 2.2.3.12 has been split into 2.2.3.12 and 2.2.3.15.
9	Should Pegasus accept indication subscription of the form: 'SELECT * FROM CIM_InstModification WHERE SourceInstance ISA CIM_StorageVolume AND SourceInstance.OperationalStatus [] PreviousInstance.OperationalStatus' as specified in SMI-S 1.0? (An.Lam@3pardata.com)		Resolved. Item recorded as item 26 OpenPegasus Wish List PEP (132)

Abstract: This PEP defines OpenPegasus Release 2.4.

1 Release Overview

1.1 Product Objectives

Create a freely available, highly portable, production quality C++ implementation of the DMTF WBEM Standard.

1.2 Release Objectives

• Enhanced Provider support.
• Enhanced Supportability, Resource Utilization and Performance.

1.3 Release Constraints

• MUST NOT regress functionality
• MUST NOT regress quality
• MUST be backward compatible with 2.1 and 2.3 developed Providers and Clients.
  Refer to PEP #96 for a list of external interfaces.
• 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 DocumentType Definition, version 2.1.
  • CIM Schema 2.8

2 Requirements

2.1 Process Requirements

ID	Description	Priority	Sponsor	PEPs	PEP Submitted MM/DD/YY	PEP Approved MM/DD/YY	Planned Adoption Date MM/DD/YY
2.1.1	Pegasus API documentation guidelines		IBM	107	11/19/03	01/23/04 Ballot 37
2.1.2	CVS Procedures		IBM	108	11/20/03	01/23/04 Ballot 37	New version planned to be approved by end of Sept '04
2.1.3	Withdrawn 01/18/04	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A
2.1.4	Core Pegasus Process		IBM	110	11/20/03	12/19/03 Ballot 33
2.1.5	Withdrawn 01/18/04	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A
2.1.6	Process for Deprecating Pegasus Interfaces		IBM	112	11/20/03	02/10/04 Ballot 38
2.1.7	A process experiment specific for this release concerns how we use bugzilla; we'll use the convention that a bugzilla is used to fix only 1 release. So, if same fix is needed in another release, another bugzilla should be written. (This is an exception to PEP 2.)		IBM	N/A	N/A	Experiment Approved 01/27/04	N/A
2.1.8	PEP 2 (Bugzilla) Rework		IBM	002	12/10/03		Plan is to approve by end of Sept '04
2.1.9	OpenPegasus PEP Process Update		IBM	001	01/22/04	03/19/04 Ballot 41
2.1.10	Supported Release Process For Open Pegasus		IBM	114	12/03/03	02/20/04 Ballot 39
2.1.11	Deferred: Pegasus Code Inspection Guidelines		Veritas	147	03/18/04

2.2 Functional Requirements

2.2.1 Globalization Enhancements

ID	Description	Priority	Sponsor	PEPs	PEP Submitted MM/DD/YY	PEP Approved MM/DD/YY	Planned FC Date MM/DD/YY	Actual FC Date MM/DD/YY
2.2.1.1	Additional Globalization enhancements		IBM	146   161	03/25/04   04/18/04	05/07/04 Ballot 54 05/07/04 Ballot 54	EVO 4	05/10/04

2.2.2 Provider Interface Enhancements

ID	Description	Priority	Sponsor	PEPs	PEP Submitted MM/DD/YY	PEP Approved MM/DD/YY	Planned FC Date MM/DD/YY	Actual FC Date MM/DD/YY
2.2.2.1	CMPI Pluggable Provider Manager		IBM	102	10/31/03	11/07/03 Ballot 29	11/07/03	03/31/04
2.2.2.2	Out-of-Process Provider Support		HP	072	02/28/04	04/30/04 Ballot 53	06/30/04	06/25/04
2.2.2.3	Withdrawn - 02/08/04	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A
2.2.2.4	JMPI Support		IBM	145	03/14/04	04/02/04 Ballot 44	EVO 4	04/30/04
2.2.2.5	Remote CMPI		IBM	130	02/11/04	5/03/04 SC Approval	5/31/04	06/16/04
2.2.2.6	Operation Context Enhancements		IBM	135	02/19/04	04/13/04 Ballot 45	06/30/04	06/30/04 Additional changes will need to be on exception
2.2.2.7	Withdrawn - 02/01/04	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A

2.2.3 Supportability, Resource Utilization, and Performance Enhancements

ID	Description	Priority	Sponsor	PEPs	PEP Submitted MM/DD/YY	PEP Approved MM/DD/YY	Planned FC Date MM/DD/YY	Actual FC Date MM/DD/YY
2.2.3.1	Restructure of CIMRequestMessage		IBM	099	09/20/03	11/07/03 Ballot 29	EVO 2	01/30/04
2.2.3.2	Deferred. Preventing Problems with Copy Constructors and Assignment Operator Methods		Veritas	100	10/28/03	12/19/03 Ballot 33	N/A	N/A
2.2.3.3	Use auto_ptr or Similar Class to Own Memory		Veritas	101	10/28/03	02/20/04 Ballot 39	Partial FC 06/30/04 Additional work planned for 2.5	6/29/04
2.2.3.4	Deferred. Simplifying Tracing Using Objects		Veritas	104	11/01/03	02/10/04 Ballot 38	N/A	N/A
2.2.3.5	Windows Threading Enhancement		NCR	095	09/29/03	05/07/04 Ballot 54
2.2.3.6	Deferred. Add Buffer Class for Simple Buffer Management		Veritas	113	11/21/03	02/10/04 Ballot 38	N/A	N/A
2.2.3.7	Deferred. RAS (Reliability, Availability, Serviceability) hooks Note: This is an interface in the cimom that allows a platform to easily use that platform's 'standard' mechanisms and facilities for trace and log output, which will cause all the cimom's trace & log output to be handled as all the other platform trace & log output.		IBM					N/A
2.2.3.8	Deferred.RAS Provider interface Note: Ability for a provider to cause its trace & log data to be synchronized with the trace & log data of the cimom.		IBM					N/A
2.2.3.9	Withdrawn - 02/01/04	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A
2.2.3.10	cgi bin (Browser based test tool)		IBM	Bugzilla 996	N/A	N/A	EVO 3	02/17/04
2.2.3.11	Resolver cleanup		IBM	141	03/02/04	04/13/04 Ballot 45	06/30/04	06/30/04
2.2.3.12	Request validation enhancements		IBM	141	03/06/04	04/13/04 Ballot 45	06/30/04	06/30/04
2.2.3.13	Deferred to 2.5. Issues captured in PEP 172. Repository perf improvements Note: This focuses on a few very specific improvements which can be expected to have lots of performance value		IBM	141	03/02/04	04/13/04 Ballot 45	05/30/04	N/A
2.2.3.14	Support for shared schema repository. Includes Registration of namespace properties generically		IBM	129	02/16/04	05/21/04 Ballot 57	06/04/04	06/10/04
2.2.3.15	Response validation enhancements		IBM	141	03/02/04	04/13/04 Ballot 45	06/30/04	06/30/04
2.2.3.16	Cross Namespace Associations		IBM	139	02/23/04	04/02/04 Ballot 44	06/04/04	06/09/04
2.2.3.17	Test Enhancements		IBM	121	12/24/03	N/R	N/A	02/17/04
2.2.3.18	Install Shield Scripts for Windows		IBM	133 148	02/24/04 03/22/04	03/26/04 Ballot 42 05/07/04 Ballot 54	06/30/04	06/29/04
2.2.3.19	Lightweight performance statistics for CIM Server		IBM	127	02/09/04	03/30/04 Ballot 43	06/30/04	6/30/04
2.2.3.20	Vendor-Specific Compile Flags		HP	134	02/19/04	03/05/04 Ballot 40	N/A	N/A
2.2.3.21	Withdrawn. Thread Limitation		IBM	151	03/24/04		EVO 4	N/A
2.2.3.22	Withdrawn. Reorganizing CIMOperationsDispatcher module		TOG	156	03/26/04			N/A
2.2.3.23	Extensions to CIMClass And Instance to enhance object creation and manipulation.  This 157 proposes some specific new methods that would help provider writers.		TOG	157	03/26/04	05/14/04 Ballot 56	06/25/04	06/01/04
2.2.3.24	Proposes the implementation of binary encoding for the repository		TOG	164	04/15/04	05/21/04 Ballot 57	06/04/04	06/04/0
2.2.3.25	Lightweight performance statistics for CIM Client		IBM	128	02/09/04	03/30/04 Ballot 43	06/30/04	6/30/04 2.5 to include some overflow
2.2.3.26	Monitor 1 and 2 Consolidation Effort		IBM	183	07/15/04	07/30/04 Ballot 64	08/16/04

2.2.4 MOF Compiler Enhancements

ID	Description	Priority	Sponsor	PEPs	PEP Submitted MM/DD/YY	PEP Approved MM/DD/YY	Planned FC Date MM/DD/YY	Actual FC Date MM/DD/YY
2.2.4.1	Deferred. Support for aliasing in cimmof(l).		Veritas	Bugzilla 14				N/A

2.2.5 Interoperability/Standard Compliance Requirements

ID	Description	Priority	Sponsor	PEPs	PEP Submitted MM/DD/YY	PEP Approved MM/DD/YY	Planned FC Date MM/DD/YY	Actual FC Date MM/DD/YY
2.2.5.1	Withdrawn: Specification of Propagated Attribute and LocalOnly Flag			116	12/05/03			N/A
2.2.5.2	Deferred.  Will be reconsidered for 2.4.1. CQL Support Note: 1st stage of support, roughly; a subset of query lvl 1 (select, from, limited where) and 6 (support for FIRST and ORDER BY).	EMC - MUST	IBM	138	02/20/04		EVO 3	N/A
2.2.5.3	Withdrawn: CIM_Error support (Depends on Embedded Object support)							N/A
2.2.5.4	HTTP V1.1 Chunked Encoding		EMC	140	02/27/04	04/23/04 Ballot 50	Client Support FC 06/25/04 - Server Support FC 07/30/04	06/24/04
2.2.5.5	Withdrawn: Embedded object support							N/A
2.2.5.6	CIM V2.8 as pegasus default (currently 2.7)		TOG	166	04/21/04	04/30/04 Ballot 53	06/25/04	06/22/04
2.2.5.7	Client Ignore Detailed Error Instance		HP	149	03/23/04	04/13/04 Ballot 45	04/19/04	04/19/04
2.2.5.8	Make Pegasus Linux Standard Base compliant.		IBM	152	03/23/04	04/13/04 Ballot 46	06/25/04	06/30/04
2.2.5.9	Support for ExecQuery & enhancement of CLI for WQL query.		IBM	119	12/09/03	01/20/04 Ballot 36	01/26/04	01/26/04

2.2.6 Security Requirements

ID	Description	Priority	Sponsor	PEPs	PEP Submitted MM/DD/YY	PEP Approved MM/DD/YY	Planned FC Date MM/DD/YY	Actual FC Date MM/DD/YY
2.2.6.1	Deferred. Security Review		IBM					N/A
2.2.6.2	Deferred. e2e security		IBM					N/A
2.2.6.3	Withdrawn in favor of  PEP#165. Client side interface for certificate (currently only server interface)		IBM	Bug 1302				N/A
2.2.6.4	Deferred. Client and server SSL interfaces to support pass-phrase to encrypt/decrypt private key (depends on client side interface implementation above (2.2.6.3))							N/A
2.2.6.5	Deferred. Add support for HTTP digest authentication (this had been on the wishlist).		Veritas	050	04/01/03	05/07/04 Ballot 54		N/A
2.2.6.6	Authorized User Groups		HP	142	03/02/04	05/07/04 Ballot 54	06/30/04	06/22/04
2.2.6.7	Support for Client SSL Certificate Verification in CIM Server for CIMExport (Indication) requests		HP	155	03/25/04	04/20/04 Ballot 49	06/30/04	06/17/04
2.2.6.8	SSL Client Verification		IBM	165	04/23/04	05/11/04 Ballot 55	05/30/04	06/25/04

2.2.7 Client Requirements

ID	Description	Priority	Sponsor	PEPs	PEP Submitted MM/DD/YY	PEP Approved MM/DD/YY	Planned FC Date MM/DD/YY	Actual FC Date MM/DD/YY
2.2.7.1	Java Client & Listener Enhancements		HP	125	01/21/04	02/10/04 Ballot 38	02/12/04	02/12/04

2.2.8 Provider Requirements

ID	Description	Priority	Sponsor	PEPs	PEP Submitted MM/DD/YY	PEP Approved MM/DD/YY	Planned FC Date MM/DD/YY	Actual FC Date MM/DD/YY
2.2.8.1	NIS Provider		HP	126	01/27/04	02/10/04 Ballot 38	02/13/04	02/13/04

2.2.9 Indication Requirements

ID	Description	Priority	Sponsor	PEPs	PEP Submitted MM/DD/YY	PEP Approved MM/DD/YY	Planned FC Date MM/DD/YY	Actual FC Date MM/DD/YY
2.2.9.1	Deferred. Adding LifeCycle Indications to Pegasus Environment.		TOG	158	03/26/04			N/A

2.2.10 Miscellaneous Requirements

ID	Description	Priority	Sponsor	PEPs	PEP Submitted MM/DD/YY	PEP Approved MM/DD/YY	Planned FC Date MM/DD/YY	Actual FC Date MM/DD/YY
2.2.10.1	Porting of Open Pegasus on Mac Os X platform		SPSOFT INDIA	124	04/14/04	04/23/04 Ballot 50	05/13/04	05/13/04

2.3 Significant Defect Fix Requirements

ID	Description	Priority	Sponsor	Bugzilla Number	Planned FC Date MM/DD/YY	Actual FC Date MM/DD/YY
2.3.1	Deferred. Mutex's May Not Be Unlocked Resulting in Hang		Veritas	Bug 1090	Partial FC 06/30/04 Additional work planned for 2.5

3 Platform Advocates

This table does not imply any specific commitment by the Platform Advocate to provide support for Pegasus 2.4.

Description	Sponsor
AIX	IBM
HP-UX PA-RISC	HP
HP-UX IA-64	HP
Linux IA-32	IBM
OpenVMS	HP
Linux on Power PC	IBM
OS/400	IBM
Red Hat Linux IA-64	HP
Solaris versions 8 and 9	Veritas
Windows 2000	EMC
Windows XP	EMC
zOS	IBM
zLinux	IBM
Mac OS	SPSOFT

4 Quality Metrics

4.1 Functional Test Passing

	Percent Passed
FC	80%
CTC	100%

4.2 Code Coverage

	Breadth	Depth
FC	70%	40%
CTC	95%	70%

4.3 Defect Density

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





In PEP 14, each pairing of Priority and Severity (e.g., [Normal,P1]) is assigned to one of three possible categories: Minor(M), Normal(N), and Critical(C). Defect Density Release Metrics are defined by the number of defects in each of these three categories.

With approximately XXXK lines of non-commented source (NCSL), the following table defines the actual OpenPegasus 2.4 release Defect Density metrics.

	Critical(C)	Normal(N)	Minor(M)
FC (Goal/Acceptable)
CTC (Goal/Acceptable)

4.4 Continuous Hours of Operation (CHO)

	CHO
Acceptable	72

5 Schedule

5.1 Release Milestone Schedule

Release Milestone	Planned Date	Revised Date	Actual Date	Comments
CVS Open for 2.4 Development	01/16/04		01/16/04
PEP Submittal Window Closed	02/27/04	03/25/04	03/25/04
Requirement Sign-off (RSO)	03/31/04	04/23/04	05/24/04
Functionality Complete (FC)	05/31/04	06/30/04	06/30/04
Certification Test Complete (CTC)	07/23/04	NA	NA
Ship Release (SR)	07/30/04	NA	NA

5.2 EVO Cycle Definitions (EVO Experiment Deferred)

5.2.1 Background

As part of the Pegasus 2.4 release, the OpenPegasus Steering Committee is experimenting with the use of the Evolutionary (EVO) Development Model. The EVO software development process is noted for it's strengths in user feedback, risk analysis and mitigation, and the ability to meet "first to market" challenges

As a process experiment, we expect and encourage frequent reviews of the EVO process as part of the 2.4 release. These reviews are intended to help define, clarify and refine the process. At any point in time, the Steering Committee may decided to terminate this experiment and move to an alternative development model.

If the experiment is successful, HP agrees to sponsor a PEP documenting the process.

Process Clarifications

• Once a PEP is approved, code may be submitted to any EVO cycle. However, priority will be given to functionality planned for that cycle.

References

• The Evolutionary Development Model for Software (http://www.hpl.hp.com/hpjournal/96aug/aug96a4.pdf)
• Evolutionary Project Management: Advanced Theory and Practical Experiences (http://www.spipartners.nl/data/Evo99.PDF)
• Stuart Woodward, Evolutionary Project Management (www.capricorn14.freeserve.co.uk/ieee_epm.pdf)
• Agile and Iterative Development: A Manager's Guide, Craig Larman, Addison-Wesley Pub Co, ISBN: 0131111558
• Interactive and Incremental Development: A Brief History (http://www2.umassd.edu/SWPI/xp/articles/r6047.pdf)
• N.R. Malotaux Introduction Evolutionary Delivery web site. (http://www.malotaux.nl/nrm/Evo/)

5.2.2 EVO 1

Schedule

EVO 1 Milestone	Planned Date	Revised Date	Actual Date	Comments
Requirement Sign-off	01/15/04
Development Window Open	01/16/04		01/16/04
Functionality Complete (FC)	01/19/04	01/30/04
Certification Test Complete (CTC)	02/01/04	02/12/04

Content

EVO 1 PEP #	PEP Description	Sponsor	Planned FC Date	Revised FC Date	Actual FC Date	Comments
102	CMPI Pluggable Provider Manager				11/12/03	Functionality will be enabled by default in EV0 1.
089	SLP Client Integration
088	HTTP Monitor				08/22/03	Functionality will be enabled by default in EV0 1.
086	Pluggable Provider Manager (PPM)				08/22/03	Functionality will be enabled by default in EV0 1.
084	Pluggable Provider Manager Configuration				08/22/03	Functionality will be enabled by default in EV0 1.
030	SLP Support in Pegasus
119	Exec Query	IBM			01/20/04 Ballot 36

5.2.3 EVO 2

Schedule

EVO 2 Milestone	Planned Date	Revised Date	Actual Date	Comments
Requirement Sign-off	02/12/04
Development Window Open	02/13/04
Functionality Complete (FC)	02/29/04	03/12/04
Certification Test Complete (CTC)	03/14/04	03/25/04

Content

EVO 2 PEP #	PEP Description	Sponsor	Planned FC Date	Revised FC Date	Actual FC Date	Comments
099	Restructure of CIMRequestMessage	IBM
TBD	Remote CMPI	IBM
TBD	Support for shared schema repository.	IBM

5.2.4 EVO 3

Schedule

EVO 3 Milestone	Planned Date	Revised Date	Actual Date	Comments
Requirement Sign-off	03/25/04
Development Window Open	03/26/04
Functionality Complete (FC)	04/18/04	04/23/04
Certification Test Complete (CTC)	05/02/04	05/06/04

Content

EVO 3 PEP #	PEP Description	Sponsor	Planned FC Date	Revised FC Date	Actual FC Date	Comments
TBD	cgi bin	IBM
TBD	Resolver cleanup	IBM
TBD	Repository perf improvements	IBM
TBD	CQL Support	IBM

5.2.5 EVO 4

Schedule

EVO 4 Milestone	Planned Date	Revised Date	Actual Date	Comments
Requirement Sign-off	03/25/04
Development Window Open	05/07/04
Functionality Complete (FC)	05/31/04	06/04/04
Certification Test Complete (CTC)	06/14/04	06/17/04

Content

EVO 4 PEP #	PEP Description	Sponsor	Planned FC Date	Revised FC Date	Actual FC Date	Comments
TBD	Response validation enhancements	IBM
TBD	Request validation enhancements	IBM

6 Release Deliverables

ID	Deliverable	Sponsor	Planned Date	Revised Date	Actual Date	Comments
6.0.1	Updated OpenPegasus Download Page
6.0.2	Pegasus 2.4 Source SnapShot (consistent with CVS 2.4 branch)
6.0.3	Pegasus 2.4 Binary Releases by Platform					Availability will vary depending on platform.
6.0.4	Pegasus 2.4 Release Notes

Appendix A Version History

Version	Date	Author	Change Description
1.0	10/05/03	Denise Eckstein	Initial Submission
1.1	11/02/03	Denise Eckstein	Changed titled of Section 3.0 from Supported Platforms to "Platform Advocates". Updated section 3.0 per comment by Warren Grunbok "IBM is the platform advocate for z/OS, OS/400, and AIX. This table should not imply any specific support at this time for Pegasus 2.4 on those platforms." Updated section 3.0 per comment by David Dillard "Add Solaris 8 and 9. VERITAS will act as the platform advocate for Solaris." Created the following new "Functional" sections and added items to Release Objectives section: 2.2.2 - Enhanced Provider Support; 2.2.3 - Enhanced Supportability, Resource Utilization and Performance; Added PEPs 102 to section 2.2.2; Added PEPs 99, 100, 101 and 104 to section 2.2.3 Added initial proposed dates for 2.4 release. Added "Outstanding Items" section to track issues across revisions. Replaced, in section 1.3, the reference to PEP 40 (2.1 Interface Definition) with PEP 96. PEP 96 includes the release definitions for both the 2.1 and 2.3 interface. Noted requirement to support backward compatibility with 2.3 interface.
1.2	11/09/03	Denise Eckstein	Added consideration of "core" vs "non-core" functionality for 2.4. Added IBM as Platform Advocate for Linux IA32. Incorrectly removed in version 1.1. Added IBM as Platform Advocate for Linux on Power PC. (Ed Boden). Added "binary release" availability discussion topics. Noted that availability of binary releases would vary by platform.
1.3	11/22/03	Denise Eckstein	Created the following new "Functional" sections and added items to Release Objectives section: 2.2.4 - MOF Compiler Enhancements; Editorial Changes: renamed sections 2.2.1, 2.2.2 and 2.2.3. Added two new items to the "Outstanding Questions" section: (1) clarification of AIX support and (2) Windows 2003 support. Added PEPs 107 (Pegasus API documentation guidelines), 108 (CVS Procedures), 109 (Core Add/Delete Template), 110 (Core Pegasus Process), 111 (Core Pegasus List), 112 (Process for Deprecating Pegasus Interfaces) to section 2.1; Added PEPs 113 (Add Buffer Class for Simple Buffer Management) to section 2.2.3; Added initial draft of Pegasus 2.4 EVO Cycle schedule to section 5.2;
1.4	11/29/03	Denise Eckstein	Added item 6 (consideration of doxygen) to "Outstanding Questions" section Updated status of Outstanding Questions 1 (Expectation is that we will move to CIM 2.8 with the release of 2.4.) Added the owners to the following "outstanding questions" items: (4) EMC (Windows Support Question); (5) IBM (AIX Support Question); Added new Section 2.3 (Significant Defect Fix Requirements) Added Bugzilla 1090 (Mutex's May Not Be Unlocked Resulting in Hang) to Section 2.3
1.5	01/11/04	Denise Eckstein	Updated E9:22 PM 1/11/2004 EVO Schedule Added new Section 2.2.5 (Interoperability/Standard Compliance Requirements) Added PEP 116 as item 2.2.5.1. Added new Section 2.2.6 (Security Requirements) Added item 2.2.1.1 Addititional Globalization Enhancements. Added item 2.2.6.1 Security Review. Added item 2.2.3.7 RAS provider hooks. Added item 2.2.3.8 RAS Provider interface. Added item 2.2.5.2 CQL Support. Added item 2.2.1.2 Out-of-Process Provider Support. Added item 2.2.6.2 e2e Security Added item 2.2.3.9 Windows install Added item 2.2.3.10 cgi bin (Browser based test tool) Added item 2.2.1.3 Java Provider Mgr Added item 2.2.1.4 JMPI Support Added item 2.2.1.5 Remote CMPI Added item 2.2.3.11 Resolver cleanup and repository perf improvements Added item 2.2.1.6 Operation Context Enhancements Added item 2.2.3.12 Request & response validation enhancements Added item 7 in Outstanding Item.
1.6	01/18/04	Denise Eckstein	Removed item 2.1.3 (Add/Delete Template) - Warren Grunbok. PEPs 100, 110 were approved in Ballot 33. Removed item 2.1.5 (Core Pegasus List) - Warren Grunbok. Noted RAS = Reliability, Availability, Serviceability Split item 2.2.3.11 Resolver cleanup and repository perf improvements into 2.2.3.11 (Resolver cleanup) and 2.2.3.13 (Repository perf improvements) - Karl S. Added Outstanding Item #8 - "Need clarification of Karl's comment on Item 2.2.3.12 Added Item 2.2.3.14 - Support in CIMOM for hierarchy in name space Updated FC data for the following EVO 1 PEPS: 102, 88, 86, and 84 Added PEP 119 (Exec Query) to EVO 1 - Warren Grunbok. "EVO 1 Development Window", "CVS Open for 2.4 Development" opened 01/16/04. Added Background section 5.2.1 to EVO Cycle Definition section.
1.7	01/25/04	Denise Eckstein	Split item 2.2.3.12 into two items 2.2.3.12 & 2.2.3.15. Closed related outstanding item 8. Added item 2.2.3.16 - Cross cimom associations Noted item 2.2.5.2 (CQL) is an EMC MUST (Tony) Added item 2.2.5.3 - CIM_Error support (Depends on Embedded Object support) Added item 2.2.5.4 - HTTP V1.1 Chunked Encoding Added item 2.2.5.5 - Embedded object support Added item 2.2.5.6 - CIM V2.8 as pegasus default (currently 2.7) Added item 2.2.6.3 - Client side interface for SSL certificate Added item 2.2.6.4 - Client and server SSL interfaces to support pass-phrase to encrypt/decrypt private key Added additional EVO references. Added item 2.2.1.7 - PPM Enhancements Added PEP 121 as item 2.2.3.17 - Test Enhancements Closed Outstanding item 7. Added item 2.2.3.18 - Install Shield Scripts for Windows
1.8	02/01/04	Denise Eckstein	Added item 2.1.8 - Bugzilla Process Experiment (Ed Boden) Updated item 2.2.1.1 (Globalization Enhancements) - PEP Submittal Date 2/20/04; FC Date - EVO 3 Added Outstanding Item 9 (Life Cycle Indication Support) Updated item 2.2.5.2 (CQL Support) - PEP Submittal Date 2/20/04; FC Date - EVO 3 Updated item 2.2.1.4 (JMPI Support) - PEP Submittal Date 3/15/04; FC Date - EVO 4 Updated item 2.2.1.5 (Remote CMPI) - PEP Submittal Date 2/28/04; FC Date - EVO 2 Updated item 2.2.1.6 (Operation Context Enhancements) - PEP Submittal Date 02/23/04; FC Date - EVO 3 Withdraw item 2.2.1.7 (Pluggable Provider Manager (PPM) enhancements) - Minimal changes, Will use a bugzilla - Planned for EVO 2 (Warren G.) Updated item 2.2.3.1 (Restructure of CIMRequestMessage) - PEP Approved Date 11/07/03; FC Date - EVO 2 Withdraw item 2.2.3.9 (Duplicate of 2.2.3.18) Updated item 2.2.3.10 (cgi bin) - FC Date - EVO 3 Updated item 2.2.3.11 (Resolver cleanup) - PEP Submittal Date 2/23/04; FC Date - EVO 2 Updated item 2.2.3.12 (Request validation enhancements) - PEP Submittal Date 3/06/04; FC Date - EVO 4 Updated item 2.2.3.13 (Repository perf improvements) - PEP Submittal Date 2/23/04; FC Date - EVO 3 Updated item 2.2.3.14 (Repository perf improvements) - Description Change: Support for shared schema repository. Includes Registration of namespace properties generically; PEP Submittal Date 2/28/04; FC Date - EVO 2 Updated item 2.2.3.15 (Response validation enhancements) - PEP Submittal Date 3/06/04; FC Date - EVO 4 Added IBM as sponsor for 2.2.3.18 (Install Shield Scripts for Windows) Added the following items to EVO 2 content: 2.2.1.5 (Remote CMPI); 2.2.3.1 (Restructure of CIMRequestMessage); 2.2.3.14 (Support for shared schema repository). Added the following items to EVO 3 content: 2.2.3.10 (cgi bin); 2.2.3.11 (Resolver cleanup); 2.2.3.13 (Repository perf improvements); 2.2.5.2 (CQL Support) Added the following items to EVO 4 content: 2.2.3.15 (Response validation enhancements); 2.2.3.12 (Request validation enhancements); Updated PEP Approval Dates for the following: 102 - 11/07/03 - Ballot 29; 119 - 01/20/04 - Ballot 36; 108 - 01/23/04 - Ballot 37; 107 - 01/23/04 - Ballot 37
1.9	02/08/04	Denise Eckstein	Remove item 2.2.1.3 Java Provider Mgr - Duplicate of 2.2.1.4. Added item 2.1.8 - PEP 2 (Bugzilla) Rework Noted that a ballot is not required (NR) for item 2.2.3.17 Outstanding Item 9 - Closed.
1.10	02/25/04	Denise Eckstein	Moved Version History to Appendix A Added Table of Contents Added item 2.1.9 - PEP 1 (OpenPegasus PEP Process) Update Added PEP #130 to item 2.2.1.5 (Remote CMPI) Added PEP #135 to item 2.2.1.6 (Operation Context) Added description to item 2.2.3.7 (RAS hooks) Added description to item 2.2.3.8 (RAS Provider Interface) Added "Actual FC Date" column Added Bugzilla #996 to item 2.2.3.10 & Actual FC date Added description to item 2.2.3.13 Added PEP #129 to item 2.2.3.14 Added PEP #133 to item 2.2.3.18 Added Actual FC date to item 2.2.3.17 Added new item 2.2.3.19. Added description and PEP # to item 2.2.5.2 (CQL Support) Added new item 2.2.6.5 (David Dillard)
1.11	02/29/04	Denise Eckstein	Updated "PEP Submitted Date" and "Planned FC Date" for item 2.2.1.1 (Additional Globalization enhancements) (Warren Grunbok). Updated "PEP#","Sponsor" and "PEP Submitted Date" for item 2.2.5.4 (HTTP V1.1 Chunked Encoding) (Tony Fiorentino). Updated "PEP Submission Date" for PEP#135 (Operation Context Enhancements). Updated "PEP#" and "PEP Submitted Date" for item 2.2.1.2 (Out-of-Process Provider Support) Updated "PEP Submission Date" for item 2.2.1.5 (Remote CMPI) Updated "PEP Submission Date" for item 2.2.3.14 (Shared Schema support) Updated "PEP Submission Date" for item 2.2.3.18 (Install Shield Scripts for Windows) Updated "PEP#" and "PEP Submission Date" for item 2.2.3.16 (Cross cimom associations) Updated "PEP Submission Date" for item 2.1.9 (OpenPegasus PEP Process Update) Updated "PEP Submission Date" for item 2.1.8 (PEP 2 (Bugzilla) Rework) Updated "PEP Submission Date" for item 2.2.5.2 (CQL Support) Added item 2.2.3.20 (Vendor-Specific Compile Flags) Added new section 2.2.7 Client Requirements Added item 2.2.7.1 (Java Client & Listener Enhancements) Added new section 2.2.8 Provider Requirements Added item 2.2.8.1 (NIS Provider) Added item 2.1.10 (Supported Release Process For Open Pegasus) The following PEPs were approved in Ballot 38: 104, 112, 113, 125, 126 The following PEPs were approved in Ballot 39: 101, 114
1.12	03/07/04	Denise Eckstein	Updated item 2.2.3.11 (Resolver Cleanup). Added PEP #141 and set submission date = 03/02/04 (Version 0.5) (Warren Grunbok). Updated item 2.2.3.13 (Repository perf improvements). Added PEP #141 and set submission date = 03/02/04 (Version 0.5) (Warren Grunbok). Updated item 2.2.3.15 (Response validation enhancements). Added PEP #141 and set submission date = 03/02/04 (Version 0.5) (Warren Grunbok). Rename item 2.2.3.16 to match PEP 139. Cross Namespace Associations (Warren Grunbok). Rename item 2.2.6.6 (Authorized User Groups). PEP# = 142, PEP Submission Date = 03/02/04. (Denise Eckstein). The following PEPs were approved in Ballot 40: 134
1.13	03/19/04	Denise Eckstein	Updated status of Outstanding item 1. (Move to CIM Schema 2.8) Updated status of Outstanding item 2. (Further Pegasus Core definition activity is deferred to a subsequent release.) Clarified that the "this" in Outstanding item 3 referred to "Pegasus 2.4 Binary Releases". Updated status. (Definition of a general process for providing OpenPegasus binaries is deferred to a subsequent release.) Updated status of Outstanding item 4. (32 bit mode only is supported in current Pegasus support for AIX.) Updated status of Outstanding itme 5. (doxygen activity is considered to be low priority of this release.) Added PEP # to item 2.2.1.1 (Additional Globalization enhancements). Added PEP # to item 2.2.1.4 (JMPI Support). Moved item 2.2.1.5 (Remote CMPI) to EVO 3. Deferred items 2.2.3.7 (RAS hooks) and 2.2.3.8 (RAS Provider interface). Added PEP # to item 2.2.3.12 (Request validation enhancements) Moved item 2.2.3.14 (Shared schema) to EVO 3.
1.14	03/27/04	Denise Eckstein	Updated references to explicitly show the link. Verify links are still valid. Added item 2.2.3.21 (Thread Limitation). Marked items 2.2.6.1 (Security Review) and 2.2.6.1 (e2e security) as Deferred. Added Bugzilla information to item 2.2.6.3 (Client side interface for certificate). Added PEP# 50, 153 and 154 to item 2.2.6.5 (Digest Authentication) Added zLinux, IBM to list of Platform Advocates. Added item 2.1.11 (Pegasus Code Inspection Guidelines). Added PEP# 148 to item 2.2.3.18 (Install Shield Scripts for Windows) Added item 2.2.5.7 (Client Ignore Detailed Error Instance) - PEP 149 Added item 2.2.5.8 (Make Pegasus Linux Standard Base compliant) - PEP 152 Added item 2.2.6.7 (Support for Client SSL Certificate Verification in CIM Server for CIMExport (Indication) requests) - PEP 155 Added item 2.2.3.22 (Breaking CIMOperationDispatcher into components) - PEP 156 Added item 2.2.3.23 (Extensions to CIMClass And Instance to enhance object creation and manipulation) - PEP 157 Added section 2.2.9 (Indication Requirements). Added item 2.2.9.1 (Adding LifeCycle Indications to Pegasus Environment). Updated PEP Submittal data for item 2.1.10 (PEP 114)
1.15	04/04/04	Denise Eckstein	"PEP Submittal Windows Closed" Milestone Achieved (March 25, 2004). Ballot 43: PEPs 127 and 128 approved. Ballot 44: PEPs 139, 145 and 148 approved. Updated the following Actual FC dates: PEP 125: 02/12/04; PEP 126: 02/13/04;
1.16	04/25/04	Denise Eckstein	Added PEP 161 to item  2.2.1.1  Added new section 2.2.10.1 Miscellaneous Requirements Added item 2.2.10.1 (Porting of Open Pegasus on Mac Os X platform). Ballot 45: PEPs 135, 141, 146, and 149 approved. Ballot 46: PEPs 152 approved Ballot 49: PEPs 155 and 161 approved. Ballot 50: PEPs 124 and 140 approved. Changed PEP# for Out-of-Process from 76 to 72 (typo). Marked (yellow) the following PEPs for RSO extension: 072, 129, 130, 50, 153, 154, 95, 151, 156, 157, 158, 142 (depends on 153/154), Bugzilla 14 Marked  PEP 116 (Specification of Propagated Attribute and LocalOnly Flag) as withdrawn.  This PEP has been superceded by approved DMTF CR 1373. Marked item 2.2.5.2 - PEP 138 (CQL) as deferred. Marked item 2.2.5.3 (CIM Error Support) - as withdrawn no PEP submitted. Added item 2.2.6.8 -  RSO Exception PEP 165  (SSL Client Verification). Added PEP 166 to item 2.2.5.6 (CIM 2.8).  Marked (yellow) for RSO extension. Added item 2.2.3.24  - PEP 164. Marked (yellow) for RSO extension. Marked item 2.2.5.5 (Embedded Object Support) as withdrawn.  No PEP submitted.  Functionality may be covered  under PEP 158.
1.17	05/02/04	Denise Eckstein	Ballot 53: PEPs 166 and 072 approved. Removed PEPs 153 and 154 from  item 2.2.6.5 . Removed PEP 153 and 154 dependency from item 2.2.6.6. Marked Actual FC date as NA for item 2.2.3.20 - Vendor Specific Compile Flags.  This was a concept PEP. Updated Actual FC date for item 2.2.5.7 (Client Ignore Detailed Error Instance). Change CIM Schema version from 2.7 to 2.8  in section 1.3 (Release Constraints) Highlighted items 2.2.6.3  and 2.2.6.4 as red. Marked Outstanding Item 1 as resolved.
1.18	05/07/04	Denise Eckstein	Per comment by Rich, updated, and marked as resolved, Outstanding Item 4. Fixed ID numbering in section 2.2.2 Provider Interface Enhancements. Added Karl's comment, "This 157 proposes some specific new methods that would help provider writers."  to item 2.2.3.23. Marked item 2.2.3.21 (PEP 151) as withdrawn. Marked item 2.2.3.22 (PEP 156) as withdrawn. Marked item 2.2.6.3 (BUG 1302) as withdrawn. Marked item 2.2.6.4 as deferred. Added Actual FC date for PEP 102 (PPM) - 03/31/04. Added Actual FC date for PEP 145 (JMPI) - 04/30/04. Added Planned FC dates for the following PEPs: PEP 135 - 05/28/04; PEP 141 - 05/14/04 & 05/30/04; PEP 148 - 05/30/04; PEP 127 & 128 - 05/30/04; PEP 165 - 05/30/04. Added PEP 119 - ExecQuery as item 2.2.5.9. Removed text "Allow realm and domain to be specified in the configuration file." from description of item 2.2.6.5 (PEP 50). Ballot 54: PEPs 142, 95, 50, 146, 161, and 148.
1.19	05/21/04	Denise Eckstein	Marked item 2.2.2.5  (Remote CMPI) as approved. Ballot 55: PEPs 165. Ballot 56: PEPs 157. Ballot 57: PEPs 129, 164. Marked item 2.2.9.1 (Lifecycle Indications) as deferred. Added Planned FC date of 5/31/04 for item 2.2.5.8 (LSB Compliance). Added Actual FC date of 01/26/04 for item 2.2.5.9 (ExecQuery Support).
1.20	05/28/04	Denise Eckstein	Added Actual FC date of 05/10/04 for item 2.2.1.1  (Globalization Enhancements) Added Actual FC date of 01/30/04 for item 2.2.3.1  (Restructure of CIM Request Messages) Changed Planned FC date to 05/30/04 for item 2.2.3.11  (Resolver Cleanup) Noted FC Update for item 2.2.3.3 (Auto_Ptr) ... "This is partially done, depends of bugs 1490 and 1468.  Need to understand implications ... David Dillard to resolve" [Warren G] Marked item 2.2.3.13 (Repository performance improvements) as Deferred. Added Planned FC date of 06/04/04 for item 2.2.3.14  (Shared Schema) Added Planned FC date of 05/30/04 for item 2.2.3.15  (Response Validation) Changed Planned FC date to 06/04/04 for item 2.2.3.16 (Cross Namespace Association) Split item 2.2.3.19 into two separate items (2.2.3.19 & 2.2.3.25) Added Planned FC date of 06/04/04 for item 2.2.3.24  (Binary Repository Encoding) Added Actual Date of 05/24/04 for RSO.
1.21	06/18/04	Denise Eckstein	Added Actual FC date for PEP 130 (Remote CMPI) - 6/16/04. Added Actual FC date for PEP 129 (Support for shared schema repository) - 6/10/04. Added Actual FC date for PEP 139 (Cross Namespace Associations) - 6/09/04. Change Planned Release FC date to 6/30/04. Marked item 2.2.4.1 (cimmof aliasing support) as deferred. Marked EVO Experiment as deferred. Marked item 2.2.6.5 (Support for HTTP digest authentication) as deferred. Added Planned FC date of 06/30/04 for PEPs: 072, 142, and 155.
1.22	06/21/04	Denise Eckstein	Marked item 2.2.3.2 (Preventing Problems with Copy Constructors and Assignment Operator Methods) as deferred. Added Planned FC date for item 2.2.3.3 (Use auto_ptr or Similar Class to Own Memory)  - 06/30/04.  Note that additional work is planned for 2.5. Marked item 2.2.3.4 (Simplifying Tracing Using Objects) as deferred. Marked item 2.2.3.6 (Add Buffer Class for Simple Buffer Management) as deferred. Added Planned FC date for item 2.2.3.6 (Add Buffer Class for Simple Buffer Management) - 06/25/04. Added Planned FC date for item 2.2.5.6 (CIM V2.8 as Pegasus default) - 06/25/04. Added Planned FC date for item 2.3.1 (Mutex's May Not Be Unlocked Resulting in Hang) - 06/30/04. Note that additional work is planned for 2.5 Added Actual FC date for 2.2.3.24 (Proposes the implementation of binary encoding for the repository) - 06/04/04
1.23	06/27/04	Denise Eckstein	Updated Planned FC date for item 2.2.5.8  (LSB Compliance). Changed to 06/25/04. Updated Planned FC date for item 2.2.2.6 (Operation Context Enhancements). Changed to  06/30/04. Updated Planned FC date for items 2.2.3.11 (Resolver Cleanup) & 2.2.3.12 (Request Validation Enhancements) & 2.2.3.15 (Response Validation Enhancements). Changed to  06/30/04. Updated Planned FC date for item 2.2.3.18 (Install Shield for Windows). Changed to 06/30/04. Updated Planned FC date for item 2.2.3.19 (Light-weight performance statistics).  Change to 06/30/04. Updated Planned FC date for item 2.2.3.25 (Lightweight performance statistics for CIM Client). Change to 06/30/04. Updated Planned FC date for item 2.2.5.4  (Chunking Support).  Changed to 06/25 for Client-side and 07/30 for Server side. Added Actual FC date to  item 2.2.2.2  (Out-of-Process) - 06/25/04. Added Actual FC date to item 2.2.6.6 (Authorized User Group) - 06/22/04. Added Actual  FC date to item 2.2.6.7 (Export Client Certificate Support) - 06/17/04.
1.24	07/18/04	Denise Eckstein	Added Actual FC date to item 2.2.5.6 (CIM V2.8 as pegasus default) - PEP 166 - 06/22/04. Marked item 2.3.1 ( Mutex's May Not Be Unlocked Resulting in Hang) as deferred. Added Actual FC date to item 2.2.2.6 (Operation Context) - PEP 132 - 6/30/04 Added Actual FC date to item 2.2.3.3 (AutoPtr) - PEP 101 - 06/29/04. Added Actual FC date to item 2.2.3.11 (Resolver Cleanup),  2.2.3.12 (Request validation), 2.2.3.15 (Response Validation) - PEP 141 - 06/30/04. Added Actual FC date to item  2.2.3.18  (Windows install)  - PEP 148 - 06/29/04. Added Actual FC date to item 2.2.3.19 (Statistics for Server) - PEP 127 - 06/30/04 Added Actual FC date to item 2.2.3.25 (Statistics for Clients) - PEP 128 - 06/30/04 Added Actual FC date to item 2.2.5.8 (LSB Compliance) - PEP 152 - 06/30/04 Added Actual FC date to item 2.2.6.8 (SSL Certificate-based authentication) - PEP 164 - 06/25/04 Added Actual FC date to item 2.2.3.23 (Developer extensions) - PEP 157 - 06/01/04 Added Actual FC date to item 2.2.5.4  (Chunked encoding) - PEP 140 - 06/24/04 Added Actual OpenPegasus 2.4 FC date of 06/30/04.
1.25	07/30/04	Denise Eckstein	Added Maturity Table in Section 1.
1.26	08/07/04	Denise Eckstein	Removed all but the "Included in Nightly Test Build" column from Maturity Table. Moved table from Section 1 to new Section 4.5 (Test Summary). Updated "Included in Nightly Test Build" column. Removed Association Provider row from Test Summary table.
1.27	09/15/04	Denise Eckstein	Added item 2.2.3.26 (Monitor Consolidation PEP 183) Removed section 4.5 (Test Summary). Added comments to items 2.1.2 (PEP 108) and  2.1.8 (PEP 2). Marked item 2.1.11 as PEP 147 as deferred. Added several "Planned FC" dates. Marked CTC and SR "Actual Dates" in section 5 as NA.  Decision not to track these dates as part of the Release Definition PEP.
1.28 Approved Ballot 72	09/28/04	Denise Eckstein	Added Actual FC date of May 13 for item  2.2.10.1  (Porting of Open Pegasus on Mac Os X platform - PEP 124).

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