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Subject: Re: invitation for the CAM TC to test doc mgmt system
Karl, On behalf of the TC we'd definately like to test this out! Actually we just had a good test task occur for this - cataloguing use cases and template samples for CAM. Since we'd be building this offline and then uploading the HTML documents that are inter-linked - this should serve as a nice test case - and also one that many other TCs will want to replicate once we have it working... Thanks, DW ----- Original Message ----- From: "Karl F. Best" <karl.best@oasis-open.org> To: <david@drrw.info> Cc: "'James Bryce Clark'" <jamie.clark@oasis-open.org> Sent: Tuesday, April 06, 2004 1:58 PM Subject: invitation for the CAM TC to test doc mgmt system > David: > > 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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