[kforge-dev] access control to trac plugin

Mon Feb 13 15:36:11 UTC 2006

Brilliant!

Then it's just to checkout everything and start to get familiar with the
codebase :)

Best Regards
Fredrik

On 2/13/06, John Bywater <john.bywater at appropriatesoftwarefoundation.org> wrote:
> Just a general note to clarify the term "subsystem applications" in
> relation to other terms:
>
> The kforge system has a number of plugins, some of which integrate (to
> some degree) third-party software system. Such third-party systems
> appear as plugged-in sub-systems within the kforge system.
>
> Examples of such sub-systems are the trac system, and the svn system.
>
> The clunky term "a sub-system application" is a general term for a trac
> project, or an svn repository. It is what you get when you "apply" a
> "sub-system" (i.e. make use of it). In this way, if you "apply" trac you
> get a trac project-environment. If you "apply" subversion you get an svn
> repository.
>
> In short, this is motivated by the requirement to extend basic kforge
> project service objects, according to the plugged-in software system
> that is being used by that service object. An kforge svn service uses
> the svn plugin, and has an svn repository; a kforge trac service uses
> the trac plugin, and has a trac project-environment.
>
> At the moment, such things are being called "sub-system applications".
>
> Can this name be improved? :-)
>
> Best
>
> John.
>
>
>
>
> Rufus Pollock wrote:
>
> > In 0.9.0 (the version currently running on knowledgeforge.net and
> > test.kforge.net) all sign in to subsystem applications such as trac
> > and svn is done via Apache auth running off the KForge user db (via
> > modpython).
> >
>
>
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