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

[Gary Weaver]

Thanks to all for your feedback!

Based on your feedback, I have moved it to GitHub and set up a new group called 'chauth':
https://github.com/chauth/confluence_http_authenticator

Please contact me directly if you have further input or would like to help, and raise an issue in GitHub if you have any problems.

(Note: the name change and move did not include any substantial changes to the code other than name and license updates.)

Thanks!
Gary

On Jan 15, 2013, at 9:36 AM, Gary Weaver wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> I'm the current maintainer of the Confluence Shibboleth Authenticator (the authenticator that many in higher ed use with Atlassian Confluence to authenticate via Shibboleth) originally written by Chad LaJoie for Georgetown Univ. who had open-sourced it. After consulting Chad, I moved the authenticator to its current home at Atlassian. It went through a few homes while at Atlassian, first as part of their community subversion repository, then as part of their Jira Studio instance that they hosted for those developing community open-source projects.
> 
> This is the current wiki, which appears to be down at the moment:
> https://studio.plugins.atlassian.com/wiki/display/SHBL
> 
> Joe Clark of Atlassian Developer Relations sent an email on December 19, 2012 letting us know that:
> 
> "In order to ensure that your source code and other information is not lost, you will be required to migrate your projects off this server no later than February 5th, 2013."
> 
> So, again, Atlassian is asking us to move the project. This time they are saying that we can either move it to bitbucket (which they provide again for free), github or some other free-hosting repo (or paid), or we could pay annually for them to transition our Jira and svn instance and hosted it through their paid service. I'm leaning against the latter because I don't have money to put into it each year to have them host it.
> 
> Recently, I moved another plugin that Atlassian was hosting for a project I was managing over to GitHub, since I do everything else in GitHub these days, and despite my longstanding good relationship with Atlassian, I don't want to move projects to BitBucket only to be asked a few years later to move it to something else (no offense to Atlassian as I know they have to make money somehow). I have high hopes that GitHub will continue to do well, and I think they do a great job at hosting and providing services for free with basically no limitation on repo size (if it gets beyond 1GB they ask you to trim it, but it shouldn't get that big, even if we use their services to host the jars, which they can do).
> 
> I notice that someone else has already created an internet2 account at GitHub that appear to be focused on django: https://github.com/internet2/
> 
> So, first: does anyone have a problem with hosting this project at GitHub?
> 
> 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 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.
> 
> 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.
> 
> 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.
> 
> Take care,
> Gary

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