From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-0.8 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_DATE autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,e6de564066e2634e,start X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 1994-09-23 19:43:18 PST Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Path: bga.com!news.sprintlink.net!howland.reston.ans.net!math.ohio-state.edu!magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu!cis.ohio-state.edu!news.sei.cmu.edu!weh From: weh@sei.cmu.edu (Bill Hefley) Subject: Re: ARPA/SEI WWW server barely mentions Ada Message-ID: <1994Sep23.132848.7861@sei.cmu.edu> Followup-To: poster Summary: SEI World-Wide Web Information Server Keywords: Ada, SEI, WWW Sender: webmaster@sei.cmu.edu Organization: Software Engineering Institute References: Date: Fri, 23 Sep 1994 13:28:48 EDT Date: 1994-09-23T13:28:48-04:00 List-Id: In article srctran@world.std.com (Gregory Aharonian) writes about the Software Engineering Institute's Information Server on the World-Wide Web. I am responding to this Usenet posting regarding the SEI Information Server (located on the Internet at the Uniform Resource Locator (URL): http://www.sei.cmu.edu/FrontDoor.html). I will show that our Information Server does indeed refer to Ada-related resources and the SEI's extensive Ada-related efforts and publications. I am the SEI's "webmaster" -- the individual responsible for the evolving configuration of the SEI's World-Wide Web (WWW) services on the Internet. These services have been publicly accessible on the Internet as of August 16, 1994. Since then, we have had a very positive response to our WWW services with over 62,000 accesses, resulting in the transfer of over 239 megabytes of information. (Our usage statistics are available on our server at this URL: http://www.sei.cmu.edu/Admin/stats/wwwstats.html) We demonstrated these capabilities at this year's SEI Software Engineering Symposium, and received very favorable comments from all attendees we spoke with, ranging from "Joe/Jane Average" software engineer to members of the DoD's recent Blue Ribbon Panel which reviewed the SEI. In case you don't know me (http://www.sei.cmu.edu/webmaster.html and http://www.sei.cmu.edu/SEI/people/weh/weh.html), I have a long involvement in the SEI's work with Ada, and an even longer involvement with Ada, having been first exposed to the language prior to its standardization through my work on the USAF's Data System Modernization program in the early 1980s. I am the principal author of the 2nd edition of the SEI's 'best seller' "Ada Adoption Handbook: A Program Manager's Guide" (http://www.sei.cmu.edu/SEI/pubs/abstracts/sei92tr29.html), as well as two other SEI technical reports dealing with Ada (http://www.sei.cmu.edu/SEI/pubs/abstracts/sei89tr28.html and http://www.sei.cmu.edu/SEI/pubs/abstracts/sei87tr31.html). I work for Mr. Doug Waugh, who also has a long history with Ada, including service on the Ada Board. I am a strong supporter of Ada, and have extensive Ada experience; however, as the SEI's webmaster, my current task is to develop a usable software engineering information infrastructure which covers the entire software engineering domain. A goal in providing this information service is to make information available to those who are, in their own settings, advancing the state of the practice of software engineering to improve the quality of systems that depend on software. I've acted on your suggestion about making some of our Ada work more visible by adding a pointer to the Ada Adoption Handbook from the Ada topics section (http://www.sei.cmu.edu/tech/pgmg-lang.html#Ada) of the SEI WWW server. This additional pointer is consistent with our next phase of development which will insert additional pointers throughout the various Topics pages to the work of the SEI and the ARPA SISTO principal investigators. As we have developed from a prototype to a publicly-available service, we have attempted to provide as many pointers to other sources as possible (i.e., add value rather than duplicate information and efforts.) For these reasons, you will see pointers to the AJPO's existing FTP server, instead of our creating an unnecessary duplication of the fine work done by the Ada IC. These pointers are located on our pages http://www.sei.cmu.edu/tech/pgmg-lang.html#Ada, http://www.sei.cmu.edu/net/usgovtsources.html, and http://www.sei.cmu.edu/net/cmu_sources.html. I invite you to peruse our server in greater depth. The SEI Information Server provides substantial amounts of information about the SEI and our activities (http://www.sei.cmu.edu/SEI/HomePage.html), including the abstracts of all of our publicly-released documents (including at least six documents dealing specifically with DARK) and the text of our Quarterly Updates, which highlight our ongoing activities. I just did a quick search of our publications abstracts using the search term "Ada" and found over ninety published Ada-related SEI documents out of our three hundred-plus publicly-released documents. I invite you to provide us with additional feedback about our evolving WWW information server. We have built into the server capabilities (http://www.sei.cmu.edu/webmaster.html) that allow a user to directly send us e-mail with their comments or suggestions. I invite you to use this feature, as we monitor this mail daily and respond to every message. We have received kudos, suggestions, flames and often pointers to additional resources that may be useful to our readers through this mechanism. Regards, Bill Hefley ____________________________________________________________________________ Bill Hefley Software Engineering Institute, Carnegie Mellon University Pittsburgh, PA 15213 U.S.A. Office: +1-412-268-7793, internet: webmaster@sei.cmu.edu