Planning Questions

1. What are the specific desired outcomes/goals of this repository?
2. Who are specific expected users of this repository and what are their needs?
3. Who is funding the repository project and what are their expectations and criteria for success?
4. Who will be the contributors to this repository? What are their incentives to contribute?
5. Who will be the maintainer(s) of the individual assets and of the asset structure (e.g., classification scheme)?
6. How will this domain interrelate with other domains - e.g., parallel systems software, math software, applications domains?

Following the above question answering exercise, the repository developers should produce the following items and obtain agreement on them from the various stakeholders, including funders, asset producers, and anticipated users:

• A concise statement of the goals and objectives of the repository project.
• A concise definition of the subject area covered by the domain, together with a set of criteria for determining what software falls within the domain and some examples of software systems that do and do not fall within the domain.
• A selected taxonomic classification scheme or a plan for producing such a scheme.
• A list of potential customers and their anticipated requirements.
• A small number of exemplary software packages to be included in the repository initially, together with their anticipated uses and specific customers.