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

[Anthony Whyte]

Yes, I will write John.

anthony whyte | its and mlibrary | university of michigan | arwhyte at umich.edu | 517-980-0228


On Jan 23, 2014, at 3:26 PM, Aaron Zeckoski wrote:

> 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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