[cle-release-team] Proposal: Add Delegated Access as a Sakai core tool

[Bryan Holladay]

*Proposal*

Add Delegated Access as a Sakai core tool


*Rationale*

Sakai doesn't have a verbose administration feature set and requires
institutions to grant too much or too little access for users who shouldn't
have full administrative privileges.  Delegated Access allows
administrative users to choose who can access which sites and which
permissions they have and tools they can view.  Site access through
Delegated Access doesn't effect Sakai performance and doesn't show up in
the site's membership list.  Only step required for an institution to start
using Delegate Access is to add site properties (or leverage existing site
properties) to describe the hierarchy.

Delegated Access is a contrib tool, currently in use at a number of
institutions including Columbia (2 years in production) (I wish I had a
list of all production instances!  I know of at least 10 others, but I
don't want to post them w/o permission).  This tool has been proven to
handle scalability as well as functionality.  It is built off of wicket and
the hierarchy tool and is running in both Oracle and MySql production
instances.  It is highly customizable with several sakai.properties to
taylor the tool to your specific use case. [1]

Delegated Access is currently deployed on the nightly+experimental server
[2].

Delegated Access is currently maintained by Bryan Holladay and supported by
Longsight. Longsight will continue to support this application and hope the
community will adopt it as a standard for delegating access to departmental
administrators.


*Vote*

Read the rationale above. A material objection (indicated by a -1 and
accompany reasoning) raised by a Sakai PMC member will block this proposal.
 Other opinions are welcome, indeed encouraged. Silence equals consent.
Discussion should be on the sakai-dev list unless of a private nature in
which case I am happy to correspond off list. Objections must be received
before Tuesday 17th December 2013 (one week from now).


*Links*


1. https://confluence.sakaiproject.org/display/DAC/Delegated+Access+Tool

2. http://nightly2.sakaiproject.org:8085/portal
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: http://collab.sakaiproject.org/pipermail/cle-release-team/attachments/20131210/e1c49d95/attachment.html