Shibboleth Developers

The Shib team is seeking experienced and knowledgeable Shib'ers who 
would be interested in helping to test Shib 2.0. The new release is 
currently in an alpha version, and the first set of testers has 
started working with it. At this point, we'd like to expand the set 
of testers. Note, however, that this is alpha code, and we expect it 
to be broken in places.

Consequently, it only makes sense to volunteer to help test 2.0 if 
you are sufficiently familiar with Shib to be able to differentiate 
unexpected from expected behavior. We don't currently have time to 
help people new to Shibboleth learn how to install the Shib 
components. As the testing moves forward, we expect to have an open 
beta testing period.

In addition, if you plan to test the IdP, some understanding of XML 
and a *good* understanding of configuring the servlet container would 
be very helpful.

With regard to the SP, we'd particularly appreciate someone willing 
to test the security options. The current alpha version of the IdP 
does not include the security code (altho all that code has been 
written). Consequently, testing the new SP would probably require 
access to some other SAML 2.0 IdP implementation.

If you are interested in helping, note that you are a) committing 
some of your time over the next few weeks to testing various 
scenarios, and b) committing some of your time to providing useful 
feedback about your environment and symptoms (both when it works as 
expected, and when it doesn't).

If you'd like to help, please send me (off-list) the following information:

1) which component(s) you are interested in testing

2) a description of your environment (OS, servlet container and version)

3) a short description of your Shibboleth involvement and experience

Thanks very much!