[Building Sakai] [sakai-pmc] Proposal: Add Delegated Access as a Sakai core tool

[Aaron Zeckoski]

Totally happy to donate my bits. We have to get CARET (probably
Norman) to agree to their part but doubt it will be an issue.
-AZ


On Thu, Jan 23, 2014 at 2:46 PM, Anthony Whyte <arwhyte at umich.edu> wrote:
> Swinging back to have a look at this proposal from a license perspective.
> Delegated Access is ECL 2.0, copyright Columbia University. [1]  As was
> noted earlier, Delegated Access is dependent on the contrib hierarchy
> module, originally developed by CARET, University of Cambridge [1].  A good
> bit of the code is licensed ECL 1.0, copyright CARET; at least two files are
> licensed Apache 2, copyright Aaron Zeckoski. [2]
>
> At a minimum Hierarchy's ECL 1.0 license needs to be updated to 2.0 before
> it can be considered for core.  It would be preferable if the project code
> for both modules were donated to the Apereo Foundation.
>
> Anth
>
> [1] https://source.sakaiproject.org/contrib/delegatedaccess/trunk/NOTICE.txt
>
> [2] ECL 1.0, copyright CARET (example)
> https://source.sakaiproject.org/contrib/caret/hierarchy/trunk/api/src/java/org/sakaiproject/hierarchy/HierarchyNodeReader.java
>
> At least 2 files are licensed Apache 2, copyright Aaron Zeckoski
> https://source.sakaiproject.org/contrib/caret/hierarchy/trunk/api/src/java/org/sakaiproject/hierarchy/HierarchyPermissions.java
> https://source.sakaiproject.org/contrib/caret/hierarchy/trunk/api/src/java/org/sakaiproject/hierarchy/dao/model/HierarchyNodePermission.java
>
> anthony whyte | its and mlibrary | university of michigan |
> arwhyte at umich.edu | 517-980-0228
>
>
> On Dec 10, 2013, at 3:30 PM, Bryan Holladay 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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