2005-07-28 Yale-Rutgers Teleconf

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Things to discuss

(probably not all of these make it onto this meeting's agenda)

item

On agenda?

UATs become automated functional tests that run nightly. Concretely, who's going to do what when and where?

Yes

Jason Shao idea wrt uPortal CAS security provider and Java CAS client bundling with uP core. Move CAS security provider source code into uP core source tree?

No

CAS 3.0.1 status

Yes

CAS 3.0.2: goals

Sort of

Resource availability: it's pretty clear we're all busier than heck. Realistically, what resources do we expect when?

Yes

CAS and Sakai. csev's idea of bundling CAS into Sakai.

No

CAS and uPortal. Luminis model of including a CAS server in the uPortal bundle.

No

Agenda

uP 3.0.1 final release post action report

Quick review of what's in 3.0.1. Thanks to Scott for release engineering work, Drew for UAT heroics. Moment of basking in feeling good about having made a release.

Engineering the release process

  • Converting manual UATs to automated functional tests
  • Running these automated functional tests nightly
  • Against a CAS server build deployed into an SSL'ed Tomcat nightly
  • With an SSL'ed helper servlet

Where to do this

Andrew suggestion that we start but just wandering off into a dark corner, close the door, and just "make it happen" by an unholy conglomeration of cron jobed shell scripts running Maven on portaldev.its.yale.edu, because we have root and can probably make it work. Then, once we have the immediate value of nightly runs of the tests, revisit how to move this onto Clearinghouse.

Scott's, others' opportunity to talk Andrew out of it by suggesting that doing this on Clearinghouse first pass doesn't add that much work.

Resources

  • Yale: Drew and Andrew: finish producing automated functional tests for all UATs persuant to less heroics for release. Timeframe: After immediate Sakai heroics but before 3.0.2. Expected delivery early October.
  • Yale: Drew and Andrew: automate nightly build process to actually run all these functional tests against a CAS instance deployed into an SSL'ed Tomcat. Timeframe: After immediate Sakai heroics but before 3.0.2. Expected delivery early October.
  • Yale: Howard: Yale Shib pilot project, fronted and consumed by CAS. Immediate term (over the next month). Will have deliverables suitable for inclusion in CAS 3.0.x (fully backwards compatible) and 3.1.x (incremental evolution).

(Clearly Rutgers resources. Enumerate? Scott Battaglia release engineering?)

Futures

3.0.2

  • Reaffirmation of policy on urgent issues: critical bugs, security issues for which a known fix: get them fixed and out in an ASAP release.
  • Barring such a catastrophe, reasonable estimation of 3.0.2 timeline and content
    • Realities of academic term starting: realistically, no release sooner than Sept 15th or so, right?
  • Goals for 3.0.2?
    • Functional testing

3.1.0

  • Evolution that cannot be accomodated in 3.0.x
  • Howard et al. Shibboleth integration?