Version 8 Design Progress

Lots of progress this week on the design of Version 8. There is a milestone on May 15, just over two weeks away, and I've been fleshing out a bunch of pages in order to add some details and direction as to what we might want to try to accomplish by then.

• I've completed an initial draft of the SensorBase REST API specification. This is currently out for review.
  
• I've updated the home pages for the TelemetryViewer and SensorDataViewer services with more information about what these services should accomplish.
  
• I've created the SensorBase Version8 Schedule, TelemetryViewer Version8 Schedule, and the SensorDataViewer Version8 Schedule pages. These pages provide more detail on what I hope are reasonable expectations for the May 15 milestone.

Finally, I gave a talk on REST in ICS 414 yesterday, and noticed the following blog entry by Josh about REST in general and the implications for Hackystat understandability and usability in particular. This gives me hope that we're heading in the right direction!