Re: [chairs] Notice to Chairs: KAVI Groups Update Scheduled

[Jeffrey Lomas <jeff.lomas@oasis-open.org>]

OASIS TC Chairs and Secretaries:
The update of the KAVI Groups last night went as expected.  We will 
continue active monitoring and install verification on our production 
servers for the next few days.

If you have any questions or concerns, please send them along to 
webmaster@oasis-open.org.

Regards,
Jeffrey Lomas
Technology Services
OASIS


On Tuesday, Dec 23, 2003, at 13:02 US/Eastern, Jeffrey Lomas wrote:

> OASIS TC Chairs and Secrataries,
> OASIS Technology Services staff will be updating the KAVI Groups
> application over the winter holiday.  We are in the final stages of 
> live
> testing and QA now.  Deployment to the OASIS production environment is
> scheduled to occur on December 30, 2003 from 12:00 am - 1:00 am est.
> During deployment the OASIS website may be unavailable for a period a
> time, or access could be accompanied by latency.
>
> KAVI Groups is that part of the KAVI application suite which provides
> the functionality that supports OASIS Technical Committee activities.
> This includes, the "My Groups" page,  Voting, the KAVI Doc Repository,
> the TC Roster, and TC Events Calendar.
>
> This new release of KAVI Groups (version 3.2) is, generally speaking, 
> an
> optimization release.  As such, you should notice overall performance
> improvements across all modules.  TC's with particularly large doc
> repositories will also notice significant improvements in load time.
>
> A few minor UI changes have been included in this release as well.  On
> the "My Groups" page you will see a link called "View Shared Info"
> towards the top of the page.  This link lets you toggle between all
> shared information or just information specific to the TC(s) you belong
> to.
>
> The ballot creation page has been modified.  The ability to specify 'up
> to' -vs- 'exactly' N items has been added. General layout has also been
> modified slightly.
>
> Any TC Chair or Secretary interested in reading the KAVI Groups 3.2 
> Release
> Notes, should contact me off-list for a copy.
>
> As always, you may contact Technology Services for technical support
> issues at webmaster@oasis-open.org.
>
> -- 
> Jeffrey Lomas
> Technology Services
> OASIS
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