On Thu, Nov 18, 2010 at 05:27:13PM -0500, Dmitri Pal wrote: > Adam Young wrote: > > On 11/18/2010 04:02 PM, Stephen Gallagher wrote: > > On 11/18/2010 09:55 AM, Dmitri Pal wrote: > > > > >>> Steve can you summarize where we are and what we agreed to, > > please, and > > >>> identify the questions that we need to answer. > > >>> > > > > Simo, Adam and I had a long discussion on IRC regarding the time rules > > today (complete log attached). > > > > The short version is that we're going to continue (mostly) with the > > current grammar for the time rules, with a few changes. > > > > 1) We need to replace week-of-the-month with day-of-the-septet. This day > > should not be a range or multi-valued to eliminate confusion > > 2) We need to replace the time range with a duration > > 3) We should add startDate and endDate as attributes on the HBAC object > > (separate from the accessTime). I propose these should be in LDAP > > generalizedTime so that it's possible to construct filters around them. > > This effectively sets the beginning and end of a periodic schedule. > > > > > > > OK, just please stop calling it septet. I think Drums, Bass, Piano, > > 2 Saxes, Trumpet, Trombone Jazz combo when I hear that. It isl ike > > octet versus byte....it means the same thing, and just annoys people. > > > > > What you really want is to call it week-of-the-month as opposed to > > week. I realize that is more verbose, but we don't sound like > > smarty-pants. > > > > > > > > > > I've drawn up a new grammar definition and published it to the SSSD wiki > > (not currently linked from anywhere): > > https://fedorahosted.org/sssd/wiki/HBAC_Grammar > > > > Please review and give feedback. > > > > > I thought that first septet is the first seven days of the month based > on earlier mails from Steven. Is this a true statement? > The whole issue started with ambiguity of the notion of the "N-th week" > of the month. > What is it the week-of-the-month? Is it first seven day regardless what > day of the week is the first day of the month (this is what I thought a > septet is) or fist full week from Monday to Sunday or from Sunday to > Saturday, or it is the first usually partial week? This is the ambiguity > that we want to avoid! > > If the septet is what I think it is then we can't name it the > week-of-the-month and IMO septet is a good term here. However then there > is a bug in grammar as septet can be only 1-5 not 1-6. >
if I understand the septets correctly the 5th septet will cover days 29-35. When will you need the 6th? bye, Sumit > > >> > >> > _______________________________________________ > Freeipa-devel mailing list > Freeipa-devel@redhat.com > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/freeipa-devel > > > > ------------------------- > > > _______________________________________________ > > Freeipa-devel mailing list > > Freeipa-devel@redhat.com > > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/freeipa-devel > > > -- > Thank you, > Dmitri Pal > > Sr. Engineering Manager IPA project, > Red Hat Inc. > > > ------------------------------- > Looking to carve out IT costs? > www.redhat.com/carveoutcosts/ > > _______________________________________________ > Freeipa-devel mailing list > Freeipa-devel@redhat.com > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/freeipa-devel _______________________________________________ Freeipa-devel mailing list Freeipa-devel@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/freeipa-devel
