Shibboleth Developer's Meeting, August 2, 2013

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Next up: stabilise nightly Jenkins builds.  We may need to discuss exactly what the nightly builds are for.  I've documented what I think the current intent of each class of job is, along with some guidelines describing how various things are achieved, partly for this discussion and partly as guidelines for use when creating new jobs.

Marvin

Rod

• Attribute Mapper configuration, done the Spring config. More to do (auto-sensing)
• Watching and appreciating the authn work
• Starting to look at next up.
• Question:
  1. Schema validation in Spring parsers
     • Was always on in V2
     • I believe that it needs to be on in V3 to make users' lives easier
     • It has always been off in V3 (a single code line in idp-core:net.shibboleth.idp.spring.SchemaTypeAwareXMLBeanDefinitionReader)
     • Changing this breaks a few gazillion tests, but they are easy to fix.  Should we?
  2. CheckStyleRules.  
     • Many of us hate checking in non check style clean code
     • Others (particularly recently less so).
     • There are cases where the rule is just plane silly in that instance, there are cases where it makes the code less readable in that instance.  Three options, each have their proponents, we need to discuss
       
       1. Relax the rule
       2. Leave the checkin with a warning
       3. Some middle ground.  

Scott

Tom

Taking a week off was good, I was aiming for off-line but read-only was great.

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