COmanage Developers List

[Scott Koranda <>]

On Sun, Jul 20, 2014 at 8:56 AM, Benn Oshrin 
<>
 wrote:
> Primarily for Scott...
>
> You added a comment to CO-760: "The LIGO use cases would prefer that the NSF
> demographics link is configurable at the COU level."
>
> The problem with this is that NSF Demographics attach to the CO Person, not
> a Person Role (which is where the COU is significant), so doing this would
> be inconsistent.
>
> As an example, imagine COU-1 and COU-2, where COU-1 wants NSF demographics
> and COU-2 does not.
>
>  Person 1 = COU-1 = Enabled
>  Person 2 = COU-1+COU-2 = Enabled
>  Person 3 = COU-2 = Disabled
>
> From the perspective of COU-2, Person 2 and Person 3 have different
> behaviors, which will lead to confusion. That is, if I am viewing the CO
> Person record for Person 2, do I render the link or not? That view does not
> vary according to COU (there's no concept of "current COU"), so we'd have to
> render the link. So even though COU-2 wants it disabled, in some cases it
> won't be.
>
> Our options here are to make it configurable at the CO level, or refactor
> NSF demographics to attach to a Role instead of a Person, which doesn't
> really make sense to me either. (Why would you have a different ethnicity
> depending on your role?)
>


One would not have a different ethnicity depending on the role, but the need 
to
have the information collected and available for reports varies
according to the role.

For some roles LIGO needs to have the information, but for other roles
it does not.
Specifically, if the role is for a COU from the US, we need the
information collected
(or for the user to specify he or she does not want to provide the
information). If the
COU is not from the US, we do not need or want the information collected.

Concrete examples are:

CO = LIGO Laboratory collaborators, COU = University of
Wisconsin-Milwaukee -> need the info collected
CO = LIGO Laboratory collaborators, COU = GEO, COU = Cardiff
University -> do not want or need the info collected

Does this help?


Scott