Services.properties value for metadata-providers in default file from install

[Cantor, Scott]

On 8/30/16, 4:49 PM, "users on behalf of Tom Zeller" <users-bounces at shibboleth.net on behalf of tzeller at dragonacea.biz> wrote:

>>    I've wondered for awhile, but never got around to asking before. Why does the "out of
>> the box" version of the v3 (at least the v3.2.1 version) services.properties file have
>> the default "0 duration time (PT0S)" for the metadata-providers.xml file
>>(shibboleth.MetadataResolverResources), while it has explicit settings of 15 minutes or 5
>> minutes for almost all the other "likely to be changed" config files? Just an oversight,
>> or is there some key reason why the team thought that a better out-of-the-box setting for
>> that one file?

So, actually, I see you're just talking about the *property*. I think I probably was thinking that we should default to not making the addition of new metadata sources a totally automated operation and that if people wanted to manage metadata that way, they could always just change the setting.

I don't think it was a deeply held opinion or anything.

-- Scott