Barry Warsaw writes:
One of the things I think we need is better holistic documentation which describes how to use the integrated system,
The big problem is that as Simon points out we no longer have a truly centralized database. Each component now keeps user information related to itself, but it's not communicated across the components very well. ISTM the core exports pretty good information, but it has no ability to grant privileges in the other components. The other components are in a "pull" relationship with core, so core isn't really able to get information from them. We need to think about providing better communication among the components.
I wonder if we might not have been better off using an object-oriented database like MongoDB for the core. That would allow adding components from external sources as the external sources require.