Shibboleth Developer's Meeting, 2019-01-18

1. LDAPocalypse Now

Brent

• Per Scott request, looking at the Spring MVC Velocity deprecation issue.  Various questions:
  
  • What should be replacement (essentially and mostly: FreeMarker vs ThymeLeaf)?  Or maybe option for both?
  • Replace Velocity everywhere or just Spring MVC usage?
  • (radical) Join or start the "Save Velocity!" train: get Spring MVC support added to Velocity Tools.  Somebody may eventually do it.  Maybe that's us?

Daniel

• Jira Legacy
  server Shibboleth JIRA serverId 180d847f-bce4-36b2-9964-771bff586829 key IDP-1357

Ian

• Been defocused for the last couple of months for various reasons I won't get into, but should be back and more active now.
• Main activity is the push to Java 11. Will hold off making the actual change as long as possible, so that the java-parent-project master branch uses Java 8 as long as possible.
• What are known blockers, if any, in our code for a Java 11 transition? Or is it solely the tooling?
• Will use the MDA, as usual, as the canary for the transition when it comes.

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• Jira Legacy
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  • New plan for "pin/key map" : fingerprint|checksum artifact-coordinate-pattern
    
    • Use checksum rather than PGP fingerprint when unsigned or bad signature
    • Use fingerprint rather than key ID because there could be collisions
    • Should we use wildcards/patterns in the artifact-coordinate-pattern ?
      • Yes for our artifacts
      • Maybe for other artifacts (like Spring)
    • Append to "pin" list or remove no longer used map entries ?
  • IdP 3.4.3 has 1150 artifact dependencies in the stack (including Maven plugins)
    • 250 are unsigned (22 %)
    • 3 have bad signatures (org.apache.struts:struts-taglib|core|tiles:pom:1.3.8)
    • no weak (as defined by the pgpverify plugin) signatures
    • The count of 1150 includes POMs
  • Need Jenkins to sign SNAPSHOTs (since checksums will change)

  • Jira Legacy
    server Shibboleth JIRA serverId 180d847f-bce4-36b2-9964-771bff586829 key INFRA-196

     Initial install of Nexus NXRM 3 to take a look at capabilities
    
    • Should we proxy Maven Central ? (probably, so we can discontinue use of it directly)
    • Context/path name ? /nexus3 
  • Some links :
    • https://checker.apache.org/
    • https://www.apache.org/dev/release-distribution#sigs-and-sums
      
      

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