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Subject: RE: invitation for the Registry TC to test doc mgmt system
Karl, Yes, the ebXML Registry TC is interested in participating in the alpha test for the document management system. Carl Mattocks will be participating for the ebXML Registry SCM subcommittee. Please let us know what is required for our participation. Thanks, Kathryn -----Original Message----- From: Karl F. Best [mailto:karl.best@oasis-open.org] Sent: Tuesday, April 06, 2004 10:58 AM To: Breininger, Kathryn R Cc: Jamie.clark@oasis-open.org Subject: invitation for the Registry TC to test doc mgmt system Kathryn: You're probably aware that OASIS staff has begun building a document management system to provide our TCs with a means to manage the documents that they produce. The current Kavi doc repository, while providing some useful functionality, has serious limitations particularly in the areas of version control and persistent URLs. While we're still at an alpha stage of development, we would like to invite a small number of TCs to participate in testing. The purpose of this alpha test is to ascertain whether SVN is indeed the correct platform upon which OASIS should build its document management system. We on OASIS staff would like to invite your TC to participate in the alpha test because we felt that the TC * is active, and probably has multiple people editing documents * has multiple, but a manageable number of, documents in development * has multiple document types in development * might be willing and able to put some time into this, and would be willing to abide by the testing rules This alpha document management system is an implementation of Subversion (SVN) with a Kavi authentication layer. The current implementation (April 2004) includes only the native SVN functionality. This consists, basically, of checkout/in, version control, change merge for text-based formats, and persistent URL. A users guide and additional information for Subversion may be found at http://svnbook.red-bean.com/ General information about Subversion is available at http://subversion.tigris.org After the alpha test, additional functionality will be developed by OASIS staff to fulfill the set of requirements developed with the input of the TC chairs in early 2004. Functionality such as searching, granularity of permissions, a default/base directory structure, additional document metadata, GUI clients for non-Windows platforms, management of packages of files, and notification to TC members upon file checkin all still need to be provided. Once we've completed development and rolled out the doc management system each TC (and SC) will have its own SVN repository, and only members of the TC or SC will have RW rights. Non-TC or SC members, including other OASIS members and the public, will have Read rights only. It must be assumed that this current SVN implementation is alpha only. Critical functionality has still not yet been developed. In addition, until we have made the final decision that SVN is the platform upon which the OASIS document management system will be built, we cannot assume that this current implementation will survive; therefore the TC must continue to use the Kavi doc repository for their real work. The TC must operate under the assumption that everything that they put in this repository could disappear at the end of the test. (There is no guarantee that we will use either this software platform or this particular instantiation of the repository going forward; major changes may also be made to the repositories, depending on the results of the testing.) Our intent is to start four weeks of testing on 19 April; comments and feedback would be returned to me for compilation. If your TC would be interested in participating please let me know by mid next week. thanks -Karl -- ================================================================= Karl F. Best Vice President, OASIS office +1 978.667.5115 x206 mobile +1 978.761.1648 karl.best@oasis-open.org http://www.oasis-open.org
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