Introduction
After quite a bit of refinement the latest version of Ogri has been pushed up the google projects server (link below). This is classed as only version 0.0.4 but the code in reality is probably really 1.0.4 but will only truly be numbered in that manner once a couple of kinks are finally ironed out.
This is the first release where some of the portal access management can be delegated to "owners" of the portal by site administrators. Next comes the concept of "voters" for portals allowing the democratic decisioning (if you want it) for defining whether access to certain portals for requesting users should be granted or not.
Documentation
This release ahs been delayed whilst I complete the user guide and supplements the installation guide - both available on the Google Code downloads page. As always I've veered towards simplicity but welcome any feedback.User Management
The tool can be quite easily integrated into "Single sign-on" services and also shows how a interface to LDAP-based group access can be performed too.Currently site administrators can also manage users alerting to ensure they get emailed when certain new reports come into existence.
What Next?
I'll probably get the "portal voting" functionality in place soon and then call that version 1.0.0. Along the way it will probably pick up a few more preferences and administration functions.When will this appear? Possibly note until I've done some minor updates of some of my other projects:
- cm2 - improvements to mass code check-ins, change-set generation/application improvements, optional relaxation of the check in/out permissions.
- truecl - work through some of the enhancements currently logged. This is a huge project (think 100,000 lines of code for a single person), of great complexity and I've enjoyed a break from the brain-ache, but time has come to jump back into the code and push this forward again!
