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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
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> 
> 


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