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[Jim Fox <>]

I have to miss this call.  My action item is not yet complete.
Hopefully by the next call.

Jim


On Tue, 6 May 2014, Emily Eisbruch wrote:

> Date: Tue, 6 May 2014 13:48:12 -0700
> From: Emily Eisbruch 
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> Subject: [grouper-dev] Draft Minutes: Grouper call of 23-April-2014
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> Draft MInutes: Grouper-dev call of April 23, 2014
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> Attending
> Tom Barton, University of Chicago (Chair)
> Chris Hyzer, University of Pennsylvania 
> Shilen Patel, Duke University   
> Dave Langenberg, University of Chicago  
> Emily Eisbruch, Internet2, scribe
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> New Action items
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> [AI] (Dave) update the Release Steps checklist for PSP/ connector steps
> https://spaces.internet2.edu/display/Grouper/Release+steps
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> [AI] (Tom) ask U. Chicago security staff if they can do Penetration testing 
> on the Grouper Demo
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> [AI] (Shilen) create a training video on the new Grouper UI
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> [AI] (DaveL) move the SCIM code to SVN. 
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> [AI] (Shilen) will ask Scott Koranda to review the upgrade process.  
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> Carry Over Action items
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> [AI] (Jim) make the University of Washington group events AD updating code 
> available on GitHub and document its availability  on the Community
> Contributions page.
> https://spaces.internet2.edu/display/Grouper/University+of+Washington+Grouper+Project+Page
>
>    and in table at bottom of this page:
> https://spaces.internet2.edu/display/Grouper/Community+Contributions
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> [AI] (Shilen) investigate ways to get new attribtues in a single step
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> [AI] (Shilen) continue to do performance testing on Grouper 2.2 
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> [AI) (DaveL) look at PSP ChangeLogDataConnector Inconsistency issue
> https://lists.internet2.edu/sympa/arc/grouper-users/2014-02/msg00047.html
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> [AI] (DaveL) write up the doc related to the Shib Grouper question.
> https://lists.internet2.edu/sympa/arc/grouper-users/2014-02/msg00004.html 
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> [AI] (DaveL) work on the PSP aspect of GRP 914.  
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> DISCUSSION
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> Performance Testing
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> Shilen has started performance testing on Grouper 2.2, and will continue this 
> work, including doing some profiling.
> Could potentially lead to changes on the API.
>
> Grouper BoF at  2014 Global Summit in Denver
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> Notes are available at :
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> https://spaces.internet2.edu/display/Grouper/Grouper+Call+9-April-2014+BOF+at+Global+Summit
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>
> Tom reported that there was discussion about provisioning strategy
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> Some community members are interested in seeing the Grouper project move 
> towards use of Apache ActiveMQ 
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> At a future call, we should talk about how to make it easier for contributed 
> connectors to be integrated into the Grouper toolkit.
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>
> -Chicago has a lot of neat one-off custom work, and it's not written in JAVA
> -there is maintainability issue with contributed code
> -maybe contributors will be asked  to do the maintenance?
>
> Bill Thompson suggested there should be a service management UI
> -for delegating access to collaboration tools like wikis, mail lists 
> etc., possibly using checkboxes
> - Duke Toolkits UI is a good example
> Concern: 
> -this needs to be tailored at each institution. 
> -Challenging to make this generic, since each site has different tools
> Comment: There is some overlap here with the work that the COmanage project 
> is doing
>
> Another UI use case requested by Bill Thompson: 
> -A UI to for auditing or attestation
> -need a broader reporting of changes for audit purposes, not just lookup 
> capability
> -So one could say: Here's a group of people, show me all of their membership 
> changes over a period of time
>
> Tom: would be good to have additional workflow based capabilities 
> -such as ability to notify admins to do periodic reviews of group membership
> -and check  who has been added and removed from a group
> -There is not much of a gap between what Grouper currently does already and 
> what is needed to make it an attestation tool
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>
> [AI] Chris put the audit report work on the Grouper roadmap ("Auditing in 
> UI") and create a JIRA (done)
>
>
> Grouper v2.2 - status of remaining elements
>
>
> CSRF: Chris working on CSRF. It works in the local environment, but there are 
> issues with putting CSRF on the demo.
>
> Grouper UI: Several community members have registered for the demo server to 
> do testing on the new Grouper UI.
> Feedback has been quite positive.
> Kudos to both Michael Girgis for the design of  the UI and to Chris for the 
> implementation.
>
> SCIM Work: DaveL is communicating with Bas at SURFnet about the SCIM work and 
> hopes to send Bas the code to test before long.
> [AI] (DaveL) move the SCIM code to SVN. 
>
> Legacy attribute migration: Shilen is done with the Legacy Attribute 
> migration work. 
>
> Upgrade Process: [AI] (Shilen) will ask Scott Koranda to review the upgrade 
> process.  
>
>
> Grouper Release Steps
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> https://spaces.internet2.edu/display/Grouper/Release+steps
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>
> SCIM will be under the Grouper MISC category. 
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> PSP is in a separate repository.
>
> Chris will do the tagging for it for future releases. 
>
>
> [AI] (Dave) update the Release Steps checklist for PSP/ Connector steps
>
>
> Grouper Installer may be need tweaking for Grouper 2.2 to accommodate the 
> properties file overlay
>
>
> Q: Will the installer need tweaking for the SCIM connector?
>
> A: probably not
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>
> There are some possible issues around Web XML file or web core
>
> Chris: There are custom error code files for HTTP things that can happen
>
> They worked fine for admin ui
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>
> But LITE UI and new UI comes from different paths and getting some "file not 
> found" issues on the demo server
>
> -So Chris took those sections out and this means the custom error pages won't 
> work 
>
> -But the new UI displays its own error pages 
>
>
> Security Review
>
>
> [AI] (Tom) ask U. Chicago security staff if they can do Penetration testing 
> on the Grouper Demo
>
>
> Target Date for Grouper 2.2 Release
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>
> Shilen will review the API unit tests that he ran previously.
>
> -Goal to try to wrap up release by May 21, with release on May 23.
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> Training Video: Shilen will work on the Grouper training video on the new UI
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>
> Next Grouper-dev call : Wed., May 7, 2014  
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> (Tom not available to chair the May 7 call)
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> Emily Eisbruch, Technology Transfer Analyst
> Internet2
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