Re: [stellation-res] Evaluating stellation

[Mark C Chu-Carroll <markcc@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Sorry to have taken so long to reply
to this; we've all been absolutely swamped lately.

I wouldn't currently suggest using Stellation
for production. I think it's reasonably close, but there are a few problems:

- Our command-line tool is broken. The
command-line code has been around for a long time, and it suffers from
major bit-rot; the original system model, storage model, and data structures
have all changed quite significantly since then; the command-line has been
fixed over time for those changes, but it's reached the point where the
fundamental structure of the whole thing is just wrong, and needs to be
rewritten rather than just patched. 
- Our Eclipse client does not provide
support for managing access control lists. ACLs are a very important tool
in production use; currently, the only way to work with them is through
the (broken) command-line tool.

We're also in the midst of a dramatic
change in the project; Stellation is moving from its old API to WVCM, which
dictates a lot of semantic changes in the internals. The main reason for
not fixing the two issues above is because they would both need to be redone
to work with WVCM; so we're going to finish WVCM first, and then go back
and rewrite the command-line tool, and see about providing some useful
UI for administrative tasks like managing ACLs, user accounts, etc.

        -Mark


Mark Craig Chu-Carroll,  IBM T.J.
Watson Research Center  
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Joel Shellman <joel@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
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05/18/04 02:48 PM

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Stellation is very interesting and I'm trying to understand
if there's 
anything I can do with it in my company:

1) Is it ready for production use and if not, how close is it?

2) Is there a relatively simple way I can download it and try it out?

3) Is there an IRC channel that is used to discuss things? I noticed a
reference to #stellation on freenode.net in the mail archives but don't
see anyone in there.

Thank you!

Joel Shellman
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