COmanage Developers List

[Heather Flanagan <>]

Attendees: Digant Kasundra, Scotty Logan, Heather Flanagan, Bruce  
Vincent (phone), Ken Klingenstein

High level discussion:
  * Direction with respect to grouper and signet; Development  
priorities for
    signet/grouper with respect to COmanage
        ** grouper and signet are still more research project than product
        ** goal of COmanage is to be a product, a working appliance, and not a
                research project
        ** this does raise issues around modularity of tools in COmanage;
                modularity of applications and modularity of infrastructure
                components
  * Emphasize packaging and production deployment concerns
	** one of our goals is to make an appliance that has enough  
intelligence
                to keep itself up to date (is this in scope?)
  * Open question: what should the GUI look like?  In this space,  
we'll need
    feedback from the VO's - what works for them?


Details:
Each appliance will be identical, and have a base line of tools.  One  
can choose during the setup which of the available base line they'll  
install.  The packages for these tools will come from Debian  
repositories - the standard for the unconfigured installation, and  
then a special comanage-package for appropriate configuration overlay.
Base line of tools currently on the list:
        * wiki: confluence, mediawiki
        * group management: grouper,
        * authZ management: signet, webrat
        * mailing lists: sympa (mailman out of scope right now - too 
difficult)
        * shibboleth IDP
        * content management: drupal, alfresco
        * bug tracking: jira (OOI)
        * revision system: Subversion (OOI)
Action item: Ken to follow up with LIGO to see if there is something  
else they absolutely need and if not, this will be our list of  
initial targets.
Suggestion: for future tools, point people to Jira and let them make  
requests; we can go by what's most requested for our prioritization next


Open question: what if you already have one or more of these base  
packages?  We will need to work on comanage installation that allows  
for people to say "I have it, it's here" and include documentation on  
how to integrate it; may also want to explore data migrations; there  
is a lot of guidance we will need to give the world on how to work  
with COmanage.  We also want to put effort in to making sure people  
can use their own infrastructure if it's possible.

Action item:  Digant will be working on the documentation clean up to  
make the wiki the technical documentation space and the internet2  
site the promotional document space.


Other contenders in this space to be aware of
        * UAB - Grid    
	* MyWorks (Steven Carmody); uses grouper, shib; has a very different  
GUI
		in that it approaches the world through specific projects and  
selecting
                tools per project rather than projects per tools

Future discussions
        * need to talk more with Lois in the Libraries about GUI
	* who can we partner with in the larger space?  Google Apps?  Amazon  
EC2?


Heather Flanagan
Director, System Administration