RE: [chairs] need more input for DocMgmt system

Title: RE: [chairs] need more input for DocMgmt system

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-----Original Message-----
From: Keith Swenson 
  [mailto:]
Sent: Friday, May 21, 2004 12:25 
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Subject: RE: [chairs] need more input 
  for DocMgmt system

  
Requiring an applet or a plugin would be a problem in some 
  situations I work in. 

  
What doc management features are we anticipating that exceed 
  the capabilities of WebDAV?  I would strongly favor a simple WebDAV 
  inteface, because retrieval is simply an HTTP get, clients are readily 
  available for other operations on all platforms.

  
-Keith Swenson 

  
> -----Original Message----- 
> 
  From: Karl F. Best [mailto:] 
  
> Sent: Wednesday, May 19, 2004 12:37 PM 
> To:  
> Cc: 
  Jeff Lomas 
> Subject: [chairs] need more input for 
  DocMgmt system 
> 
> 
  
> Chairs: 
> 
  
> We've gone through the scheduled alpha test of 
  the doc mgmt system 
> without much result, so 
  anyone who is interested in taking a look at 
> this 
  please let me know. 
> 
> 
  There's a couple of specific questions that we need the 
> answer to before 
> we can proceed much 
  further with development. Just to review, we've 
> 
  tentatively decided on Subversion (SVN) as the platform upon which we 
  
> will build our doc mgmt system. But there's some 
  additional 
> functionality that we need to build on 
  top. As much of this 
> functionality would reside 
  in the client, we need to decide 
> how to build 
  
> this. 
> 
  
> So... specific questions: 
> 
> 1. What proportion of the users of 
  the doc mgmt system (TC members, 
> editors, chairs, 
  etc.) will be using non-Windows clients, and 
> what 
  kind? 
> (Mac, Linux, etc.) 
> 
> 2. For Windows users, what proportion 
  of users *do not* have the 
> ability/permission to 
  install a plugin client on their 
> computers? (Some 
  
> company IT policies don't allow this.) 
  
> 
> Based on the answers to the 
  above, our developing a multi-platform 
> client 
  applet may be the best solution, but this would also cost more 
  
> resources to do. There's an existing open source 
  plugin that we could 
> start with, but it's Windows 
  only and we don't know if 
> everyone has the 
  
> option of using it. 
> 
  
> thanks for your input. 
> -Karl 
> 
> 
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