Pat Nolan maintained many essential LAT collaboration services on the servers he maintain on campus. We could consider moving some of these services to SLAC. The goal would be to ensure future maintainability, and to enhance integration between the campus and SLAC web sites (for example by using the same login for both sites). Any changes would have to be made slowly and carefully, probably over the period of 1-2+ years. Pat's notes on the campus serves are attached.
Some very brief ideas for some items which could be moved are presented below. At this moment these are just ideas, we would need to look in detail to understand what exists on campus and how and if pieces could by moved without breaking other things.
- User database
- Currently the master people database is kept on campus.
- We have a script which pulls data out of this database and merges any changes into the "GroupManager" database at SLAC
- We could reverse this process and make the SLAC personnel database the master, and synchronize changes to this back to campus.
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