FW: invitation for the WSBPEL TC to test doc mgmt system

["Satish Thatte" <satisht@microsoft.com>]

OASIS is creating its own doc management system.  We would presumably
want to take advantage of it when it is available.  Karl is inviting
participation in an alpha test.  Does anyone have the cycles to try it
out?  I unfortunately don't.  Shouldn't be a large commitment though -
there is no specific commitment level demanded.

Satish


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Karl F. Best [mailto:karl.best@oasis-open.org]
> Sent: Monday, April 12, 2004 11:25 AM
> To: drj@us.ibm.com; John Evdemon
> Cc: Jamie.clark@oasis-open.org
> Subject: Re: invitation for the WSBPEL TC to test doc mgmt
> system
> 
> Diane, John:
> 
> Could you please let me know by EOD tomorrow if your TC will
> be able to
> help with the alpha test of the doc mgmt system? I'll need to
> get things
> set up for you to start testing next Monday.
> 
> thanks
> -Karl
> 
> 
> 
> Karl F. Best wrote:
> > Diane, John:
> >
> > 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
> >
> 
> 
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