A great list of goals and the issues around them.
I'd like to make a suggestion that we take this as an opportunity to
look at how so of the existing infrastructure internally on the SAC site
might be better implemented in todays much more feature rich web.
I don't think we need to consider changing the structure of SAC or the
ARCs other than extending licensee and membership (intern and full) out
to non Sun employees; but I think that is largely separate from the
infrastructure technical issues.
I'd like a "portal" that shows me:
1) All cases submitted since I last visited
2) All cases active
3) All cases active that I've commented on.
4) All cases currently in review (fast track and sac-review)
The ability to setup email or RSS feeds for any of those.
I'd also like the ability to submit cases via an opensolaris.org web
page, particularly fast-tracks. The internal sac_nextcase tool should
become a web page that feeds the portal.
I think basically what I'm suggesting is that we take this as a turning
point to move the ARC review infrastructure from being an email driven
process to a portal based process. In doing this nobody should loose
the ability to be a participating member in the way they do today with
email (and that would still be the primary means of commenting on
cases). I'm suggesting that we drag the workflow part of the process
out of the world of email filters into a real db/workflow world possibly
built on a web portal platform.
One last, thing I know next to nothing about implementing this stuff I
just know what I'd like to interact with :-) I am willing to learn and
help out build said new infrastructure though.
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Darren J Moffat
