"Wai-kuen (Larry) Lam" <Larry.W.Lam at Sun.COM> writes: [Copying sch]
> Hi all, > > My name is Larry Lam. I am currently the technical owner of the > application WebRTI which is used by many consolidations within Sun to > manage changes to their projects. It is a form based process which > developers use to request source code changes and evaluators can use it > to approve/disapprove the request. > > Brian Kidney and I have been supporting the application for the last 2-3 > years after the application was initially developed by a different > team. We were requested to look into making WebRTI available outside > of SWAN. We have decided to name this project "OpenRTI"for now. > > I am sending this email out to kick start this OpenRTI project. I would > also like to use this opportunity to find out information on two key > modules we will need to replace in WebRTI to turn it into OpenRTI: > > * In WebRTI, we are using the Sun wide LDAP process to authenticate > users. Is there a OpenSolaris equivalent? Or we should > maintain a separate login/password in OpenRTI? I'm not sure how the current opensolaris auth system works, but there's work to replace it with something largely better (on website-discuss, I believe). I'm honestly not sure what would be the correct thing for WebRTI to do right now. > * Every WebRTI request has to have at least one bugid/CR to identify > the changes. Within Sun, WebRTI extracts information from the > Bugster database. I was told that we should be interfacing with > the Bugzilla database for OpenRTI. Any information you have > about interfacing with Bugzilla is appreciated. I'm not sure how far people have gone thinking about that stuff, and how this is all intended to work, big-picture wise. Bugzilla 3.x provides an XML-RPC interface, would be the quick answer. That said, I'm not certain talking to bugzilla exclusively matches what I understood of the DTS plans. Stephen, are your slow-migration plans now changed? Do we intend to run two RTI systems side-by-side *as well* (I think that's a bad idea, but I could be convinced it's unavoidable). -- Rich
