need feedback: immediate move of Atlassian Confluence Shibboleth Authenticator to new repo

[Peter Schober]

* Gary Weaver <garysweaver at gmail.com> [2013-01-15 15:37]:
> So, first: does anyone have a problem with hosting this project at GitHub?

Personally I'm not an avid user of git and I also don't share some
people's conviction that "put it on github and they [i.e., developers]
will come" but I'm certainly not against such a move.
Any repo you control (for varying degrees of "control") is preferable
to being chased out of some infrastructure every other year or so.

> Does anyone know who owns the internet2 group at GitHub or who has a
> similar group (shibboleth, etc.) that might make a good place for the
> Confluence Shibboleth Authenticator project?

I don't, but note that this choice for a new home seems pretty
arbitrary now that Shibboleth is not officially an Internet2 project
anymore. Cf. http://shibboleth.net/consortium/

> I would even say that maybe the Internet2 project could host it, but
> I like the forking/etc. utility provided by GitHub and think it is a
> much more easy and collaborative way to handle open-source projects
> than other alternatives based on my experience so far.

Same for the SVN repositories as used by Shibboleth (i.e., they're not
being hosted on Internet2 infrastructure anymore).

> Anyway, if I don't hear back, I may end up just create a new group
> in GitHub like "atlassian-shibboleth" or similar and put it there.

Is that code really specific to Shibboleth? If not (since all it sees
are HTTP request headers -- making it also possible to use request
attributes would be a desired improvement, btw) I would advise against
using "shibboleth" in the name.
Speaking of names I'd also be wary of the use of "atlassian" as part
of the name -- who knows what else they might change their mind about
in the future?

> This is your project and I've just been helping as I can and want to make
> sure that it doesn't disappear in a few weeks.
> 
> Let me know if you have any feedback, and note that I'm no longer working
> for Duke Univ., that I'm just doing this in my spare time now, and I only
> become a member of this list periodically to send a shoutout for things
> like this, so please contact me directly at my gmail address in the future.

Thanks for your continuing efforts.

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-peter