COmanage Developers List

["Michael R. Gettes" <>]

On Aug 28, 2008, at 17:57, Scotty Logan wrote:

> On Aug 22, 2008, at 5:11 PM, Ken Klingenstein wrote:
> > 1. collabmin adds user from alphabets global to a particular  
> > subgroup, removes another. voiceover talks about the permissions so  
> > granted, removed (e.g. this user can now access the subgroup wiki,  
> > will be on the committee email list, can access new parts of the cvs)
>
> <pedantic>we should be careful about maintaining the distinction  
> between group membership and permissions / entitlements</pendantic>
>
> > 2. collabmin allows users from one subcommittee permission to read  
> > but not write on another groups wiki space. (pointing out it can be  
> > done either at the comanage or the wiki layer, and pros/cons). do  
> > we want to show that we can expire this permission automatically at  
> > a certain date? (can we?)
>
> None of the tools we're deploying support external permissions.  Of  
> the wikis I've seen, Confluence seems to have the best grasp of  
> permissions management, but it's still internal.  The collabmin can  
> create groups and add members to them in Grouper, but to use those  
> groups they have to go into Confluence and grant permissions on  
> spaces to those groups.

if you consider something like Sympa MLM then you could provide
a tool supporting external permissions.

/mrg