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Subject: Re: invitation for the CAM TC to test doc mgmt system
This would be great; thanks, David. I'll send out some more info in the next few days as we get a couple more TCs signed up. -Karl David RR Webber wrote: > 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 >> >> > > > -- ================================================================= 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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