Shibboleth Developers

[Nate Klingenstein <>]

Everyone,

Steven requested I enumerate the decisions that were reached as part of 
the documentation discussion on Monday's dev call.  This is a list of 
several points of consensus that I thought were reached; correction, 
further ideas and input as I structure the documentation for Shibboleth 
1.3 are always welcome.

1)  Change the default packaging of the IdP to utilize Ant and an 
externalized configuration directory.

2)  Generalize the checklist to handle a wider variety of deployment 
environments and factor out InQueue.

3)  Expand the checklist to generate metadata requests automatically 
and perhaps even some parts of configuration files based on values 
input.  Eventually, move this functionality to a wizard-like front-end 
IdP configuration GUI.

4)  Move away from the localhost default installation by making a 
suitably automated test federation(InSecure)  available, probably 
hosted(and very lightly operated) by Internet2, maybe using code 
donated by Arkansas.  Initial discussions with the technical crew of 
Internet2 have been encouraging.

5)  Break the current origin deploy guide into concepts and 
configuration information, replacing installation with the modified 
checklist.

6)  Regroup the configuration information into broader concepts; 
perhaps top-level categories become "Attributes", "Credentials", etc., 
or instead become "origin.xml Configuration Elements", "resolver.xml 
Configuration Elements".

Thanks,
Nate.