On Thu, Sep 10, 2009 at 3:29 PM, Jim Grisanzio <Jim.Grisanzio at sun.com> wrote: > OGB ... > We are finishing work on displaying the collective and user relationships on > the new site. We will deploy this functionality to auth.opensolaris.org in a > few of weeks. When this is done, all relationships will be displayed openly > on Auth, and all governance grant data will be entered directly into Auth. > At that point, Poll will simply be used for voting purposes, and we'll > update the app to prepare for the March election. > > From an implementation and process standpoint, the most efficient method to > get grant data entered into the system is to distribute the function among > the Community Group Facilitators. They already interact with the OGB > regarding their CG grants. Also, distributing this clerical task speeds the > process on their end, and it relieves the OGB secretary from having to enter > everyone's data across the entire community -- which at election time can be > a significant task under pressure from deadlines. A simple process could be > the following: CG Facilitators post to ogb-discuss their grant changes, the > OGB secretary responds with whatever OGB approval process is in place, then > the CG Facilitators enter the appropriate data into their CG Electorates in > Auth. The threads on ogb-discuss will serve as an open record of the board's > approval, and the public relationships screens on Auth will serve as > confirmation the data was entered correctly. This clearly separates > governance oversight from CG data entry, and it's the cleanest way to > implement the process on the back end in Auth.
This was discussed at the OGB meeting on Thursday. See the first business item on the agenda: http://wiki.genunix.org/wiki/index.php/2009_09_24_OGB_Agenda and the vote was to approve option D. Basically, that edit access to auth be given to: 'A "nominated" list of people who have write access to the Auth DB, starting with the board secretary and growing as appointed to backups and facilitators as they get trained/show expertise. Maybe this grows into a membership committee.' So we start off with the state being aligned with current practice and the letter of the constitution, but allowing the the team of editors to grow in the future, while being fully flexible. Thanks, -- -Peter Tribble http://www.petertribble.co.uk/ - http://ptribble.blogspot.com/
