IdP 3 Release Date?

[Chad La Joie]

On Tue, Aug 7, 2012 at 7:07 PM, Cantor, Scott <cantor.2 at osu.edu> wrote:
>>I have *no* idea how accounting is done there.  I can say that for the
>>current half year, I2/InC is covering 30% of Scott and 50% of Brent.
>
> It's 60% of me, because the other 30% is time that is still 90% project
> time on support, documentation, etc. It's not been accounted for in the
> project budget, but it's money the project benefits from directly. But
> that's still just 1.1 FTE at most.

It is accounted in that manner that it is because support for the
InCommon federation and it's members was not to be reflected in the
Shib Consortium budget.  InCommon is different than most federations
in that it doesn't maintain a separate support system outside of the
Shibboleth users list.  If we are to account for things in the way
you're suggesting we'd then also have to include all support staff for
every federation.  While that may be an interesting number to see, it
wouldn't reflect the actual amount of effort we could direct towards
any given bit of work.

> I would say that it's getting to the point where we need to see public
> statements. I say that as a major deployer. If I'm about to be responsible
> for a stack of code on my campus, I need to be able to prepare for that.
> And maybe those of us in that position need to start talking amongst
> ourselves too.

Yeah, well you know I've been saying that internally know for well over a year.

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