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

[John Bush]

Question, so if this comes in then hierarchy has to come into core as
well, correct?

On Tue, Dec 10, 2013 at 1:30 PM, Bryan Holladay <holladay at longsight.com> wrote:
> *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
>
>
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