Grouper Call Wed. Feb. 8, 2017 

Attending:  

Chris Hyzer, U. Penn (chair)

Shilen Patel, Duke

Jim Fox, U. Washington

Emily Eisbruch, Internet2  

Action Items 

[AI] (Shilen) provide  Bill T feedback on Grouper Deployment Guide

[AI] (Shilen) define the instrumentation next steps on a wiki page  https://spaces.at.internet2.edu/display/Grouper/Grouper+instrumentation

[AI  (Chris)  GRP-1483 - ehcache large file sizes

[AI  (Chris)   GRP-1480 - users with admin priv can't remove group via subject page

[AI (Bert)  follow up with Peter St Onge on PSPNG: java.lang.NullPointerException

 [AI] (Chris) GRP-1484: grouper subject api diagnostics can see if subjects are ordered correctly on search

[AI (Bert) to follow up with Martin Krenn on ldap passwords externalized

[AI (Bert) document the findings here somewhere on wiki]Grouper and openldap for large groups

[AI] (Chris) add TIER API to the Grouper download page and do testing

[AI] (Chris) patches for accessibility

[AI] ( Chris) check member table to see if subject ID matches (Lookup a subject.  Get the identifier.  Look up by that identifier.  Make sure you get the subject with the right ID and identifer.)

[AI] (Bert) look at subject ID and subject Identifier terms and text on source diagnostics screen

[AI ] (Chris) GrouperSystem in another source

[AI] (Bert)  reply to Chris Sutherin UMBC on pspng examples

[AI] (Bert)  reply to Scott Koranda about massaging group names in provisioning

[AI] (Bert)  to ply to Shaun K about name null in pspng

[AI] (Bert) to reply to Peter St Onge

[AI ] (Chris) get Grouper working for mysql and postgres

[AI ] (Chris), making delete group more efficient for large groups, fix issue with not allowed to delete group (email tues 1/17)

[AI] (Bert) Jeffrey Crawford email 1/12, full sync missing members

[AI] (Bert)  Scott Koranda email 1/12, error on change log consumer psp

[AI] Chris share Grouper Apereo training info on the Grouper lists when that info is public

Carry Over Action Items  

[AI] (Bert) email the list about (a small) Office365 versus Dropbox and next PSP project

[AI] Shilen write Bill about TIER deployment guide about how things are suggestions and not the only way to do it 

[AI] (Bert) follow up and reply to email on Hibernate Connection Pool issue [Done, use Java-Properties or we’ll have to code something new]

[AI] (Bert) document how to build PSP NG and patch it  [Bert needs to finish last couple steps] (AI for Chris to try it afterwards)  [Done, Bert’s updated the doc]

[AI] (Chris/Bert) put “make_patch” command in github  (Done) Bert will update the doc 

[AI] (Bert) Put these in jira: Grace Periods, Membership Rules, People/Account subjects  

[AI] (Bert)  document the solution to “turn off old psp issue” that was raised on the list

[AI] (Bert) create PSP-NG Training Video (after necessary patches) using Camtasia

[AI] (Chris) make sure GrouperSystem can’t exist in other sources for WS

AGENDA

Current work tasks

·         Vivek – Accessibility, TIER packaging in installer, attestation

·         Misagh – gradle

·         Chris – loader in UI , deprovisioning (https://spaces.at.internet2.edu/display/Grouper/Grouper+deprovisioning), patches

·         Bert – PSPNG

·         Shilen – real time loader

https://spaces.at.internet2.edu/display/Grouper/Grouper+loader+real+time+updates

•  Patch for real time loader SQL stuff
  
• Couple other minor patches
  
• Still need to do LDAP
  
• Will go back at instrumentation for a while
  
• Look at UI and WS, uuid file in logs directory to keep track of instances
  
• When things change in grouper, keep track of static vars, periodically update database
  
• Existing instrumentation daemon would feed TIER
  

Instrumentation enhancements

https://spaces.at.internet2.edu/display/Grouper/Grouper+instrumentation

• How often to update database? Probably hourly
  
• Use thread that starts up when servlet starts
  
• Collect a variety of stats
  
•  [AI] (Shilen) define the instrumentation next steps on a wiki page  https://spaces.at.internet2.edu/display/Grouper/Grouper+instrumentation
  

·         Bill – TIER Grouper deployment guide

Issue roundup

·         GRP-1475 - Delete loader jobs when loader group is deleted, patch created

·         [AI] chris) GRP-1474 - ldap loader set pool options when using configFileFromClasspath

·         GRP-1479- PSPNG: Failure when group is deleted before Group-Add changelog entry is processed, patch created

·         GRP-1476 - Real time loader mysql issues, Caused by: java.lang.RuntimeException: com.mysql.jdbc.exceptions.jdbc4.MySQLSyntaxErrorException: Every derived table must have its own alias, 2. Caused by: java.sql.SQLException: Can't call commit when autocommit=true , patch created

·         GRP-1477 - Reduce error logging when code fails in threads that would be retried out of threads, patch created

·         GRP-1478 - UI Accessibility Improvements: Privileges interface not accessible to keyboard-only or screenreader users (fixed)

·         GRP-1460 - grouperLoaderAndGroups doesn't work for sql jobs – fixed in patch

·        [AI  Chris]  GRP-1483 - ehcache large file sizes – 

·         [AI] Bert, document the findings here somewhere on wiki]Grouper and openldap for large groups

·         Half day Apereo training in philly this summer from Chris and Bill . June 4 in morning.

•  Need to advertise the Apereo Grouper Training on the Grouper lists -
• [AI] Chris share Grouper Apereo training info on the Grouper lists when that info is public

·         AI for Chris - GRP-1480 - users with admin priv can't remove group via subject page

·         GRP-1402 - IE11 partially renders the UI – font awesome doesn’t show up in IE with pragma no-cache… what to do?

AI for Bert to follow up with Peter St Onge on PSPNG: java.lang.NullPointerException

·         [AI for chris] GRP-1484: grouper subject api diagnostics can see if subjects are ordered correctly on search

·        https://spaces.at.internet2.edu/display/Grouper/Grouper+attestation

·          [AI] Bert - followup to Martin Krenn on ldap passwords externalized

·         Active PIT member not in sync with members table

·         [AI] Chris patches for accessibility

[AI for Bert] sign up for TIER  F2F on April 27, 2017 in DC

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1IQ9KSKpp8r8s0GVeqfDvFKK-H5rThvBgM4cN0Jv6_yE/edit#gid=0

Grouper BOF at 2017 Global Summit

•  Grouper BOF at Global Summit is scheduled for  Tuesday, April 25, noon - 1pm

Next Grouper Call: Wed Feb. 22, noon ET