First of all, if you’re joining us from ACPN, hello! Welcome to our site. Now, the boring/fun stuff (depends on your perspective): I’ve bundled up the latest version of the XSD schema spec for Sandpiper, as well as the first release of our reference SQLite database schema. The database schema is provided as an SQL… Continue reading Sandpiper Schemas 20210518
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Updated Contact Page & Mailing List
I’ve changed our contact page to be “Contact & Connect“, and added our mailing list signup. I’ve been testing alternatives to our current mailing list provider (mailchimp) but I won’t be ready soon, so this last piece of the old site needed to come over as-is. On that note, I’ve had to stop the GNU… Continue reading Updated Contact Page & Mailing List
Technical Calls Invitation & Updates
We’re continuing to build up the use case work that I mentioned last, though it really highlighted the need for a fully frozen API and a rationalization between the attributes in the API, the spec, and the plan. Below, I’ll talk more about that and about how you can join our weekly technical call (please… Continue reading Technical Calls Invitation & Updates
Building Use Cases
Luke and I need to firm up the API and lay out the common paths that an implementation has to handle, so this week we’ve been building out step-by-step instructions around some core use cases. In the process we’ve settled a few long-standing ambiguous points around how plans change, what is allowed, what is forbidden,… Continue reading Building Use Cases
Prototype Tool Sandpiper Inspector
Our own Luke Smith has a repository for a prototype testing tool he’s been building to vet out concepts for a Sandpiper server. While not an official Sandpiper Framework project, it’s something we’re using internally to hash out concepts and find the bits we’re missing. Sandpiper Inspector is open source — feel free to head… Continue reading Prototype Tool Sandpiper Inspector
Sandpiper Plan Schema 0.9.4
We’ve finalized the first stable schema used for the plan document in Sandpiper. The plan document, in brief, describes the state of the actors in a Sandpiper agreement, and their relationship to one another. It encapsulates these in an implementation-neutral XML format that the two partners independently generate from their own internal ledger for that… Continue reading Sandpiper Plan Schema 0.9.4
New Website
We’re updating our website to make it easier to run. Previously we used a full workflow system driven by Hugo, which would take a repository and generate documentation in the Docsy format. This toolchain was more than we needed, however, in addition to being different from what most of us use every day, and led… Continue reading New Website
Sandpiper Framework WIP 20210304
We’ve started the API attribute work and it’s encapsulated here in this WIP snapshot. Current work is ongoing!
Sandpiper Framework v0.9.0
We’ve updated the Sandpiper reference document to 0.9.0. This large update finally handles the plan document and adds sections that will be used to tie the API documentation in as we build it (our current effort).
Sandpiper 0.8.0
This is an older release of Sandpiper, uploaded here for completeness.