* Alan Burlison <Alan.Burlison at sun.com> [2007-12-04 19:09]: > Stephen Hahn wrote: > > >>We also have the issue of who actually grants commit rights - is this > >>going to be by a central body, or are the GCs and projects that make up > >>ON going to manage their own committers? > > > > Both. I've been warning projects that seek to integrate into a > > consolidation that they need to ensure that they have SCAs in place > > for non-Sun employees. Cleaning this up further, as you and Rich have > > mentioned earlier in the thread, so that various transitions are > > covered correctly seems great. Helping the project and consolidation > > leads in filtering for valid SCA-possessing individuals sounds very > > valuable. > > That's not exactly what I meant, what I was asking was if a person has > commit rights on a project that delivers to ON, do they automatically > get ON commit rights, or do they explicitly need to be granted ON commit > rights in addition to their project-level rights? The latter.
> >>It is a user-editable field in the current system. I'm not intending in > >>replicating that in the new system, but when we migrate we will have to > >>validate/insert the correct values for all migrated users, and we need a > >>process to ensuring that the data stays in step with reality, e.g. when > >>people leave/join. > > > > Please. Although we have good knowledge about Sun contributors, there > > will be other individuals contributing under other organizational > > agreements--that suggests that employee ID might need to be "unique > > string for this organizational agreement", and that that might need to > > be a field whose modification access is given over to a specific > > assignee (from the contributing organization, I guess). > > In the new database it is a freeform text field on each user's Agreement > record called 'reference'. In the case of Sun employees it will be > their sunid, for individuals it will be their SCA number, for other > organisations it could be their equivalent. Very nice. > As for delegated administrative rights, there is currently no provision > for that, and as it is a significant change I don't anticipate it being > available in the first version. That's fine. Just thought I would point it out. - Stephen -- sch at sun.com http://blogs.sun.com/sch/
