Peter Tribble wrote:
We have had 3 conflicting pieces of information given to us regarding the
rollout of the auth app.
The first is that, when the current OGB took office we were told by Bonnie that:
"We had to decide to go with old constitution on website implementation, there
will be no time for re-implementation before the end of the current term."
I don't think I was party to that conversation, but I suspect the point
that Bonnie was making is that once we deploy around the old
Constitution we won't be proposing to change things until after the next
election, even if the new Constitution is ratified between now and then
- but as I say, I'm not sure of the exact context of the statement you
are attributing to Bonnie.
And that is exactly what has happened - for the area where the old
Constitution gate us sufficient information we have followed it, namely
the CGs. The PS and UGs were based on the new Constitution. That's
been stated several times already in this thread.
The second piece of information the OGB and the wider community have had
to go on is the version of the auth app and the website made available to us for
evaluation and testing. Now you're telling us that the version to be rolled out
is (a) going to be different, and (b) is not available to us for evaluation.
It will be available, hopefully within a week, depending on how testing
goes. The changes between the current and the new version are
relatively minor, mainly renaming of roles to reflect the old
Constitution. The details of the new version are in the migration
documents.
Yet, I am still unable to work out from the information provided whether we
have a problem or not. I am still waiting for an answer to the questions I asked
earlier:
1. Will the new system store Core Contributor grants?
2. Will the new system use Core Contributor grants for access control?
3. Will the new system store Contributor grants?
4. Will the new system use Contributor grants for access control?
because I am still unable to determine the answers to all these questions from
the documentation available and the discussion on this thread.
As CC and C data is in the current system and we are migrating that data
to the new system then clearly the data will be in the new system. And
as we aren't changing the way the data is interpreted then, as in the
current system, that data will be used for access control. That's be
stated already, and is also described in the documentation.
If you could explain where the documentation is unclear we'll see what
we can do to clarify it.
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Alan Burlison
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