Re: [Bodington-developers] SP testing on wiki

[Alistair Y. <ali...@sm...>]

Let me clarify first, that the issue is with bod itself, not with  
what Atif has produced as a shibb module. I suspect the hand of  
politics involved and as we all know, developers are it's servants.

It would seem that local demands have impinged upon the gx philosophy  
of minimal disruption. e.g. the bod IdP runs without normal users'  
knowledge and the SP should do the same. We, the gx project as a  
whole, could have caught this earlier if we'd known about it but we  
didn't so we couldn't. As the gx project is not about custom coding  
to local demands then I would say it's fair to ask Atif or someone  
Leeds can nominate to remove the implications of those local demands  
and bring bod in line with the minimal philosophy.

This means providing a separate shibb route into bod. We've seen it  
before with webauth etc so it's possible and is arguably the way it  
should have been.

As it stands, it's unacceptable to change the way an institution's  
users work just so that a feature of the vle can be tested. When  
opening your vle to shibbed users means inconveniencing your own  
users, then we have failed. It's bad practice and bad publicity that  
will only harm bod in the long run.

The Guanxi and SOCKET projects enjoy a symbiotic relationship so  
let's not disturb that. Instead, let's find a way out of this that is  
benficial to all concerned. Whether that means subcontracting to  
someone who knows enough about bod to implement this is a matter for  
discussion.

Indeed, we know of someone who is currently available and is fresh  
from testing bod and has some shibb knowledge to boot ;)

Alistair


On 5 Jul 2006, at 12:57, Colin Tatham wrote:

> Sean Mehan wrote:
>> well, what it does mean is that
>>
>> 1) GX isn't done, still;
>> 2) 2.8 will ship with no SP support unless we delay the 2.8 release
>> for an indeterminate amount of time.
>
> Are the problems with the SP that bad that we remove it for 2.8?
> I think the main one is the fact that you can't use the same login  
> route for Shibb and normal Bod
> auth (and the fact that sysadmin has to go via /opensite/). If it's  
> possible to release it with the
> SP stuff turned off, it will work as normal, and if people want to  
> test the SP, they follow some
> short instructions to enable it (and find out that they have to now  
> login via /opensite/ as sysadmin)?
>
> Colin
>
>
>> If it is the case that we still haven't finished GX (with the SP in
>> bod being a component of that), then, I suppose that we are beholden
>> to Leeds to find the time for
>> their current project, which is still giving them money, in order to
>> complete a project for which they received all of their money some
>> time ago.
>>
>> As for 2, all things being equal, its a ++2 from me to ship Bod 2.8
>> with no SP support.
>>
>> s
>>
>>
>> On 5 Jul 2006, at 12:13, Alistair Young wrote:
>>
>>
>>> nae probs wee man!
>>>
>>> On 5 Jul 2006, at 12:16, Atif Suleman wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>> Thanks Alistair for the feedback:
>>>> http://www.bodington.org/wiki/index.php?
>>>> title=TestRel2.8#Shibboleth_Functionality
>>>>
>>>> Any work on bodington-sp will have to wait until Socket project is
>>>> finished at the end of the month.
>>>>
>>>> Ta
>>>> Atif.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Sean Mehan wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>> On the SP side, Atif, can you fix the things Al has found there,
>>>>> including the documentation? We really need the SP to work as a
>>>>> final
>>>>> output for GX.
>>>>>
>>>>> Thanks,
>>>>> S
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> On 5 Jul 2006, at 10:38, Alistair Young wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>> I've updated the testing page:
>>>>>> http://www.bodington.org/wiki/index.php?
>>>>>> title=TestRel2.8#Shibboleth_Functionality
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Good work Atif on the sp module but bod itself just isn't ready
>>>>>> to be
>>>>>> an sp IMHO.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Alistair
>>>>>>
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