COmanage Developers List

[Heather Flanagan <>]

COmanage update meeting, May 23, 2008
Attendees: Bruce, Scotty, Digant, Heather

Highlight:
* Scotty demo's current pre-alpha COmanage web install


Changes in the last month:
* we now have access for all we want to do
* use cases are now settled
* the virtual machine is at a point where this can be brought up as  
an SP; confluence is done but not automated; grouper and LDAP-PC is  
working in dev but isn't in the main image yet, still needs automation
* Heather has contacted Lois about GUI; meeting to be scheduled


Other notes
* after discussion at MIT, significant thought going in to how to  
commonly represent authorization that can feed in to LDAP; if this  
problem is solved, it won't really matter what the authorization tool  
may be within COmanage because the tools would be feeding information  
in a more standard fashion
** Signet will have to be a back-burner thing for now given how it  
wipes out previous copies of it's own info during upgrades
** including any kind of authority manager thing won't work until  
that space is more mature; most folks use groups at this point and  
don't actually understand authority
* Scotty did receive the agreement from Atlassian for redistribution  
and sent to Ken; Ken needs to get that signed; verbal commentary from  
Atlassian rep is that they have no problem with us redistributing  
anything they have
* we need to get an anonymous download ready for the VM


Contact with the test case VO's
* science researcher from Penn State went to CSG and spoke well of  
COmanage and Stanford; Scotty & Digant is going to be talking with  
LIGO folks against next week to talk about GUMS
* no recent contact with OOI


Deployment scenarios we'll want to explore
* VM appliance (we're building)
* Xen appliance (future)
* physical Debian box (future)
** someone else can do RedHat/SuSE/other
* EC2 (to be done at Penn State)


Upcoming work
* plan to integrate some of the Guest Account code in the install for  
COmanage so that people can create accounts themselves (with limited  
access)
* plan to have the virtual appliance ready for people to test by end  
of June (still need to find LDAP plugin's for wordpress, mediawiki)
* set up the subversion and debian repositories
* start to put together a presentation for the website



Heather Flanagan
Director, System Administration