[Mailman-Developers] GNU Mailman Architectural Patterns & Quality Attributes for Research

[Michael Skeen]

Stephen,

No, we have not had any reply regarding this request. I am sorry to hear
that you got injured...sounds terrible! If you have an opportunity to give
some response, it would be most appreciated.

Thank you, and hope you continue to heal quickly,
Michael

On Sun, Oct 30, 2016 at 10:02 PM, Stephen J. Turnbull <
turnbull.stephen.fw at u.tsukuba.ac.jp> wrote:

> Hi Michael,
>
> Did you ever get an answer to this request?  I broke a bunch of ribs
> on the 14th and have been pretty useless for the last two weeks, but
> now I have a chance to catch up on correspondence of less than "life
> or death" importance.
>
> Regards
> Steve
>
>
> Michael Skeen writes:
>  > Hello GNU Mailman Community,
>  >
>  >
>  > I am part of an undergraduate research group focusing on software
>  > architecture patterns and quality attributes at Utah Valley University.
> We
>  > recently analyzed the work published on GNU Mailman in the Architecture
> of
>  > Open Source Applications <http://aosabook.org/en/index.html> (AOSA) and
>  > referenced it in a paper we presented at the 13th Working IEEE/IFIP
>  > Conference on Software Architecture (WICSA), as attached.  As a part of
> our
>  > continuing research we wish to validate our architectural analysis for
> GNU
>  > Mailman with the current developers.
>  >
>  >
>  > We would like to know if we are missing any patterns or quality
> attributes
>  > that may have been included in GNU Mailman, or if there are any we
> listed
>  > that aren’t used. Any additional comment on these topics you might have
>  > would also, of course, be welcome.
>  >
>  >
>  > We believe we found the following software architectural patterns in
> this
>  > application:
>  >
>  >
>  > * Pattern Name | Is This Found in the Architecture? (yes / no / don't
> know)
>  > | Comments (optional)*
>  >
>  > Client Server Layers Master and Commander Pipes and Filters Shared
>  > Repository Simple Repository
>  >
>  > Other?
>  >
>  >
>  > We also identified the following quality attributes:
>  >
>  >
>  > * Attribute Name | Is This Found in the Architecture? | Comments
> (optional)*
>  >
>  > Scalability Extensibility Performance Portability Reliability
>  >
>  > Other?
>  >
>  >
>  > For your convenience, we have a complete list below of the patterns and
>  > quality attributes we referred to when conducting our research. To
> clarify,
>  > we are specifically studying architectural patterns, rather than design
>  > patterns such as the GoF patterns.
>  >
>  >
>  > Architectural Patterns Considered
>  >
>  > Quality Attributes Considered
>  >
>  > Active Repository
>  >
>  > Scalability
>  >
>  > Batch
>  >
>  > Usability
>  >
>  > Blackboard
>  >
>  > Extensibility
>  >
>  > Broker
>  >
>  > Performance
>  >
>  > Client Server
>  >
>  > Portability
>  >
>  > Event System
>  >
>  > Flexibility
>  >
>  > Explicit Invocation
>  >
>  > Reliability
>  >
>  > Implicit Invocation
>  >
>  > Maintainability
>  >
>  > Indirection Layer
>  >
>  > Security
>  >
>  > Interceptor
>  >
>  > Testability
>  >
>  > Interpreter
>  >
>  > Capacity
>  >
>  > Layers
>  >
>  > Cost
>  >
>  > Master and Commander
>  >
>  > Legality
>  >
>  > Microkernel
>  >
>  > Modularity
>  >
>  > Model View Controller
>  >
>  > Robustness
>  >
>  > Peer to Peer
>  >
>  >
>  > Pipes and Filters
>  >
>  >
>  > Plugin
>  >
>  >
>  > Presentation Abstraction Control
>  >
>  >
>  > Publish Subscribe
>  >
>  >
>  > Reflection
>  >
>  >
>  > Rule-Based System
>  >
>  >
>  > Shared Repository
>  >
>  >
>  > Simple Repository
>  >
>  >
>  > State Based
>  >
>  >
>  > Virtual Machine
>  >
>  >
>  >
>  > Please respond by October 25th, if possible.
>  >
>  > Thank you for considering our request, and for your continued work on
> GNU
>  > Mailman.
>  >
>  >
>  > Sincerely,
>  >
>  >
>  > Michael Skeen, with
>  >
>  > Erich Gubler,
>  >
>  > Danielle Skinner,
>  >
>  > Brandon Leishman,
>  >
>  > Neil Harrison, Ph.D. (advisor)
>  >
>  >
>  > Reference: Neil B. Harrison, Erich Gubler, Danielle Skinner, "Software
>  > Architecture Pattern Morphology in Open-Source Systems",WICSA, 2016,
> 2016
>  > 13th Working IEEE/IFIP Conference on Software Architecture (WICSA), 2016
>  > 13th Working IEEE/IFIP Conference on Software Architecture (WICSA) 2016,
>  > pp. 91-98, doi:10.1109/WICSA.2016.8
>  >
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>  > PDF: external: PID4110571 (Morphology).pdf, PDF          [fetch]
>  >
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