Relying party parsing. Metadata providers

[Ian Young]

On 20 Mar 2014, at 11:53, Rod Widdowson <rdw at steadingsoftware.com> wrote:

>> as I recall the only thing I've ever found need to tweak has been the
>> "ignore SSL" option. 
> 
> Proxy seems to be another commonly asked for configuration.

Yes, I can see that would also be popular; I don't need it myself but I know a lot of Universities run behind non-transparent HTTP proxies of various kinds.

> Is there a tearing need to get MDA 0.the_next out or can you wait for things
> to settle a bit?

As I mentioned on the last dev call, I'm starting to feel the need to cut an 0.9 if only to flush through all the changes we've made to naming, resources, Spring version and the component model since the last release.

I'd also like to move to more frequent minor releases just so that I can add new requested features more quickly... the 19 month gap between 0.7 and 0.8 was a real problem. For something as modular as the MDA, it should be possible to add minor contributed functionality much more often, and moving to a time-based system of releases for it actually makes some sense to me. I'm developing MDA-based code in multiple places now, and all of it is intended to be pushed back upstream once mature so that the community can benefit. That doesn't match up well with a multi-year release cycle.

A somewhat stable platform (in terms of java-parent-project, java-support, spring-extensions) is a prerequisite for a move like that, though. I kind of feel we're now most of the way there, after all the recent changes, but perhaps this is something worth talking about on Friday.

	-- Ian

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