| Re: [stellation-res] Stellation ACL preliminary draft spec |
On Fri, 2002-09-06 at 00:30, Rodolfo M. Raya wrote: > On Thu, 2002-09-05 at 17:12, Mark C. Chu-Carroll wrote: > > On Thu, 2002-09-05 at 23:52, Rodolfo M. Raya wrote: > > > On Thu, 2002-09-05 at 14:06, Mark C. Chu-Carroll wrote: > > > > > > I just checked in a preliminary draft spec of ACLs in Stellation. > > It's > > > in org.eclipse.stellation.misc/doc/specs/access-control.ps. Please > > take > > > a look and send comments. > > > > > > Hi, > > > > > > Applying access control lists is interesting. > > > > > > We will have to update database maintenance procedures to contemplate > > > user/roles/privileges.Do you also have any plans for this? > > > > Plans, yes. Implementations, no, not yet. > > I can help with this if you want. > > > One of the things in the Bugzilla yet-to-be-implemented features > > list is a dump/restore utility. The intention is for the restore > > function to be extremely flexible about coping with missing/out-of-date > > data. So, if there's no ACL in a restored database, it'll use a > > reasonable default. > > I've not seen that bug and I ignore the details. Why don't you rely on > the database backup/restore capability? Several reasons. First, it would be good to have a way of dumping the contents of a Stellation repository that will allow it to be re-loaded into another repository without requiring the source and target to be using exactly the same back-end. This would be useful not just for dump/restore, but for things like the replication facilities we want to eventually implement. Second, this tool could also be used for schema migration. If you use the database dump tool, you can only restore in exactly the format that it was dumped in. A repository specific dump/restore tool can understand the semantics of the data it's processing, and use that understanding to do any necessary translations or fill in any gaps in a reasonable way. There's support in the repository right now for dumping a particular version into a zipfile, and for doing a checkin based on a version stored in a zipfile. Those two are enough to form the basis of the kind of dump tool that I'd like to see. > > Unfortunately, it's not yet written. It will have to get done > > soon. There are too many things that need to be done. > > Count with me on this. Go for it. There are some suggestions in Bugzilla 21575. -Mark -- Mark Craig Chu-Carroll, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center *** The Stellation project: Advanced SCM for Collaboration *** http://www.eclipse.org/stellation *** Work Email: mcc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx ------- Personal Email: markcc@xxxxxxxxxxx
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