On 21 May 2008, at 12:31, Chris Phelan wrote:

> Alan Burlison wrote:
>> Hi Paul,
>>
>>
>>> I've added some new wiki requirements to the genunix wiki:
>>>
>>> http://www.genunix.org/wiki/index.php/OpenSolarisWiki#Paul.27s_List_Additions
>>>
>>> I'm not sure how this page is being updated:
>>>
>>> http://www.opensolaris.org/os/project/website/wiki_requirements/
>>>
>>
>> Sorry to be a pain, but could everyone post comments etc to
>> website-discuss rather than updating the genunix page, or any of the
>> other similar ones?  I've asked Chris to coordinate the requirements
>> gathering, and he's already melded together the existing mail & wiki
>> pages that have covered this topic in the past.  It's going to get
>> confusing if those pages are still being updated.  If you post stuff
>> here, Chris can collate it all and update the wiki_requirements page.
>>
>> Chris, can you pick up Paul's additions and add them to the page?
>>
>> Thanks!
>>
>
> For the benefit of the list, Paul's additions are:
>
> -Ability to provide comments on pages (must have).
> -Ability to export multiple pages to PDF (nice to have)
> -Wiki integrated into the OpenSolaris site structure (must have); I
> would like to see the Project and Community sites be their own wikis.
> -Ability to set up roles and permissions (must have)
>
>
> I've added 'Ability to provide comments on pages' as a conditional
> requirement (C19) because not all wiki technologies make the  
> distinction
> between commenting and editing (one might not have edit privileges,  
> but
> might still be able to comment). So, yes, the ability to make comments
> should be an explicit requirement.
>
> The ability to export pages as PDF is already noted as an optional
> requirement (now O21).
>
> Integration into the OpenSolaris site structure is, I think, implicit.
> The corollary of Project and Community sites being their own wikis I
> think is addressed by the conditional requirement for name space
> support, if I understand Paul's point correctly.
>
> Roles and permissions are 'must have' requirements, but are  
> addressed by
> the E2 essential requirement for pluggable authentication.
> http://auth.opensolaris.org references the authentication  
> architecture,
> but the E2 requirement does not explain the interaction between the  
> auth
> app and the wiki software, that is, that the auth application will  
> have
> role information which must be mapped to the wiki software's notion of
> roles and hence permissions. I'll remedy that.
>
>
> Thanks Paul, and please correct me if I have misinterpreted your
> requirements.
>
> Chris
>


If the whole site is supposed to move to a wiki, than this thread  
should be about the whole site requirements and not the wiki only I  
guess. If that is so, I would like to add the requirement of a dbish  
or tableish feature. Groups or projects that try to add data in  
tabular form and features to search through that data are currently  
pretty lost. Example: we are trying to create an index of all FOSS  
software available for the opensolarises and to which group they  
belong (blastwave, sunfreeware, sfe, sfw, other...). Pretty impossible  
without access to a tool that can handle tabular data for us.

Oh and I am still wondering why we are not using OpenSSO for the  
authentication, authorisation and permissions sytem. Is there anything  
wrong with that project, that we haven't taken it into consideration ?

Just a thought

cheers
Michal

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Michal Bielicki
OpenSolaris Core Contributor
Software Porters Community Leader
http://www.opensolaris.org/os/community/sw-porters
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