Shibboleth Developers

[Russell Beall <>]

I will generally echo the sentiments of list so far.

Having established a well functioning IdP and being very familiar with  
the current process, which I do not see as difficult, I would like to  
see the packaging stay the same.  Furthermore, while a monolithic  
packaging system may make it easier for first-time deployers, one of  
the concepts I have seen as critical in the use of Shibboleth is  
having an understanding of what is going on.  Having a monolithic  
deployment option will just make it easier for newbies to consider  
that they don't really need to understand some of the underlying  
structure and just then expect it all to work out of the box.

I think we have a good system as it currently exists.  Plus I like the  
idea of seeing it mature into a system-ready packaging which is easier  
if it remains more in a component form (as mentioned in Russ Albery's  
detailed message).

Russ.


Russell Beall
University of Southern California
Information Technology Services

On Sep 21, 2009, at 10:35 PM, Chad La Joie wrote:

> Do you agree with this?