[Building Sakai] Milton Webdav

[Berg, Alan]

Hi Stephen,

I find your comments about Litmus interesting as it is an easy test for QA. Ian has just posted Sakai 3/Q2 plans for looking at Milton/WebDAV. Therefore, next week I will run the litmus tests against the newest version of Milton and report back.

I agree with your point:
> how the code handles client foibles
I believe that (especially Rutgers) have repaired many Jira's because of subtleties. If Milton is main stream then you would expect the same evolution of ad hoc repairs. My current theory at the moment is that we should focus on protocol compliance and if better than Sakai2 verify the choice as  being mainstream.

Alan

Alan Berg
QA Director - The Sakai Foundation

Senior Developer / Quality Assurance
Group Education and Research Services
Central Computer Services
University of Amsterdam

http://home.uva.nl/a.m.berg

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From: sakai-dev-bounces at collab.sakaiproject.org [sakai-dev-bounces at collab.sakaiproject.org] on behalf of Stephen Marquard [stephen.marquard at uct.ac.za]
Sent: 27 August 2010 19:47
To: sakai-dev sakai-dev; Ian Boston
Subject: Re: [Building Sakai] Milton Webdav

The two areas in which Sakai's dav implementation fall short of full protocol compliance are (a) properties and (b) locking. It passes everything in the litmus test until that point. As the implementation to support those would have to be Sakai-specific, it would be roughly equivalent work adding it to current dav code or Milton.

The listed litmus test results for Milton - http://milton.ettrema.com/compat/litmus.zip - are actually worse than Sakai's, although the linking page does say they are out of date.

Apart from protocol compliance, the other difference may be in how the code handles client foibles across a range of clients, which is harder to evaluate.

So on first impressions, it doesn't seem clear that it would be an immediate win in value for effort.

Regards
Stephen

>>> Ian Boston <ieb at tfd.co.uk> 8/27/2010 11:48 AM >>>
Have you thought of using [1] to replace the Sakai 2 webdav impl ?
I think its probably trivial to write the adapter and it has solid client compatibility.
Ian

1 http://milton.ettrema.com/index.html
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