RE: [chairs] need more input for DocMgmt system

["William Z Pope" <zpope@pobox.com>]

Would the plug-in(s) work with Mozilla based browsers, Firefox?

=bill

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Eduardo Gutentag [mailto:Eduardo.Gutentag@Sun.COM] 
> Sent: Thursday, May 20, 2004 3:04 PM
> To: karl.best@oasis-open.org
> Cc: chairs@lists.oasis-open.org; Jeff Lomas
> Subject: Re: [chairs] need more input for DocMgmt system
> 
> 
> 
> On 05/19/2004 12:36 PM, Karl F. Best wrote:
> > Chairs:
> > 
> > We've gone through the scheduled alpha test of the doc mgmt system 
> > without much result, so anyone who is interested in taking 
> a look at 
> > this please let me know.
> > 
> > There's a couple of specific questions that we need the answer to 
> > before we can proceed much further with development. Just 
> to review, 
> > we've tentatively decided on Subversion (SVN) as the platform upon 
> > which we will build our doc mgmt system. But there's some 
> additional 
> > functionality that we need to build on top. As much of this 
> > functionality would reside in the client, we need to decide how to 
> > build this.
> > 
> > So... specific questions:
> > 
> > 1. What proportion of the users of the doc mgmt system (TC members, 
> > editors, chairs, etc.) will be using non-Windows clients, 
> and what kind?
> > (Mac, Linux, etc.)
> > 
> > 2. For Windows users, what proportion of users *do not* have the 
> > ability/permission to install a plugin client on their computers? 
> > (Some company IT policies don't allow this.)
> > 
> > Based on the answers to the above, our developing a multi-platform 
> > client applet may be the best solution, but this would also 
> cost more 
> > resources to do. There's an existing open source plugin 
> that we could 
> > start with, but it's Windows only and we don't know if everyone has 
> > the option of using it.
> 
> No one from Sun would be able to use this, as you know. Apart 
> from that, I would say that no matter what individual 
> companies' policies are regarding their employees' approved 
> desktops, OASIS cannot develop to one particular solution. 
> Whatever solution OASIS comes up with MUST work on all 
> platforms. In view of this, I would say that the answers to 
> your two questions above are irrelevant.
> 
> > 
> > thanks for your input.
> > -Karl
> > 
> > =================================================================
> > Karl F. Best
> > Vice President, OASIS
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> > karl.best@oasis-open.org      http://www.oasis-open.org
> > 
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