[MEP]: Give Boris Mejias Check-in Privileges to Mozart CVS

[Kevin Glynn]

Please find attached a draft MEP which proposes to give Boris Mejias
check-in privileges to the Mozart CVS repository.  Justification can
be found in the MEP.  

NOTE: This MEP is *not* about the DSS, it just give Boris the ability
to continue his work in the main repository.

Assuming there is no problem with the construcion of the MEP and no
objections I will ask for a ruling in the next few days, since the
earlier the DSS branch is created the better.

cheers
k

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MEP: XXX
Title: Give Boris Mejias Check-in Privileges to Mozart CVS
Version: $Revision: 1.2 $
Last-Modified: $Date: 2005/04/18 15:44:19 $
Author:	Kevin Glynn <glynn at info.ucl.ac.be>
Status: Draft
Type: Informational
Content-Type: text/x-rst
Created: 08-Jun-2005
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Abstract
========

The purpose of this MEP is to give Boris Mejias (bmc at info.ucl.ac.be)
check-in (commit) privileges to Mozart's CVS repository.


Motivation
==========

Boris is integrating the Distributed SubSystem (DSS) [#DSSsite]_
[#DSS]_ into the Mozart System.  By giving Boris check-in privileges
this work can be carried out on a branch of the official Mozart CVS
repository. This will:

1 ensure that the full history of this integration remains within the
  Mozart CVS repository (the CVS history of DSS development to this
  point is maintained in another repository). 

2 ensure that the integrated prototype is available to Mozart
  developers and users for evaluation and debugging.


Background
==========

The current implementation of the distribution layer of the Mozart
system is tightly bound with the centralised emulator. Since the code
is not modularised, the task of adding new distributed behaviour and
fixing bugs becomes very difficult. We propose to introduce the DSS as
an independent component for distribution support, implementing a glue
layer to couple the centralised engine with the DSS.

The DSS is middle-ware that provides efficient distribution support
for different programming languages. It has been implemented by Mozart
developers and it fits well with the semantics of the Oz language.

The implementation is based in a prototype [#GLUE]_ created at SICS by
Erik Klintskog and Zacharias El Banna (DSS developers) using an old
version of Mozart. 

Once the integration is sufficiently functional and stable a separate
MEP will be proposed to cover the integration of the DSS branch into
the main trunk.


References
==========

.. [#DSSsite] The Distribution Subsystem (DSS). http://dss.sics.se

.. [#DSS] Erik Klintskog, Zacharias El Banna, Per Brand and Seif
   Haridi. The Design and Evaluation of a Middleware Library for
   Distribution of Language Entities. In 8th Asian Computing
   Conference, Mumbai, India, 2003.

.. [#GLUE] Erik Klintskog. Coupling a Programming System to the DSS, a
   Case Study. Technical Report T2004:16, Swedish Institute of
   Computer Science, SICS, 2004.


Copyright
=========

This document has been placed in the public domain.


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