Technical Working Groups
The Marlin Developer Community has two technical working groups.
- Engineering Working Group: This working group develops Marlin Specifications at the request of the Marlin Developer Community (MDC) Management Committee. Specification Releases are in the form of Specifications Documents, Conformance Test Specifications, and Reference Implementations.
Requirements Working Group: This working group develops use cases that are developed into product/market requirements statements, which the Engineering Working Group then develops into technical requirements.
To subscribe to the Engineering or Requirements Working Group mailing lists, send email requesting so to engineering-join@marlin-community.com or requirements-join@marlin-community.com
Working Group Overview
Participation in a Technical Working Group (WG) starts with subscribing to the WG’s mailing list (requirements@marlin-community.com or engineering@marlin-community.com), and participating in either Requirements, Specifications or Community Code Development, following the guidelines in the Working Group Processes (see below).
Working Group Meetings, whether by teleconference or in-person, are announced on the mailing list. Other business is conducted on the list as well; this includes having discussions and the distribution of proposals. The document and meeting archives are kept in the source repository.
Working Group Processes
In addition to the Processes described in the Participation Agreement, the following documents also apply:
Working Group Meeting and Conference Call Schedule
- The current year meeting schedule can be found here.
- The Engineering Working Group usually meets for one to two days at every face-to-face MDC meeting. Phone conferences are scheduled as needed, and announced on the mailing list.