Hey, one of the ways we view collaboration our company is the sharing
of software components. I can see in RTC that components and streams
can be used to help a team work together on a stack of components, but
its not so clear how one team works with a completely separate team to
share reusable type components.

For example, we would like to be able to allow all designers to search
all components, say by keywords in the component description, or by
market space the component belongs to, or several other
"meta-data" fields. Is it possible to have this notion of
a reusable and searchable software components repository in RTC?

Related to this would be features around allowing the design community
to rate components, so that "good" components can emerge
from the rough by natural selection. Again, its a kind of meta-data
on top of components that I don't think its super hard to implement
or anythnig, but I'm not sure if RTC has that kind of inter-team
reuse on its roadmap...does it?

I guess a related question would also be, is IBM thinking of this kind
of stuff, but directing its efforts to a separate tool from RTC? If
so...what is the other tool, where do I find out more information?

(^_^)/
mike.

All of those are good ideas.

The Rational tool that gets closest I guess is Rational Asset Manager,
although to my understanding it is missing this kind of community
feeling you describe.

Kai
Jazz PMC


dinobot71 wrote:
Hey, one of the ways we view collaboration our company is the sharing
of software components. I can see in RTC that components and streams
can be used to help a team work together on a stack of components, but
its not so clear how one team works with a completely separate team to
share reusable type components.

For example, we would like to be able to allow all designers to search
all components, say by keywords in the component description, or by
market space the component belongs to, or several other
"meta-data" fields. Is it possible to have this notion of
a reusable and searchable software components repository in RTC?

Related to this would be features around allowing the design community
to rate components, so that "good" components can emerge
from the rough by natural selection. Again, its a kind of meta-data
on top of components that I don't think its super hard to implement
or anythnig, but I'm not sure if RTC has that kind of inter-team
reuse on its roadmap...does it?

I guess a related question would also be, is IBM thinking of this kind
of stuff, but directing its efforts to a separate tool from RTC? If
so...what is the other tool, where do I find out more information?

(^_^)/
mike.

Cool, yeah we had though that RAM was the intended tool. Can you
point me to more information about RAM, roadmap, beta trial access
all that kind of stuff? I can also ask through the IBM rep we have
here at Nortel I guess as well.

(^_^)/
mike.