Grouper Call Wed. Aug. 26, 2015
Attending:
Chris Hyzer, U. Penn, chair
Jim Fox, University of Washington
Dave Langenberg, University of Chicago
Shilen Patel, Duke
Dave Goldhammer, University of Colorado Boulder
Vivek Sachdeva, Independent
Emily Eisbruch, Internet2
New Action Items
[AI] (Chris) will look at improvements to doc around UI Authn with CAS
[AI] (Chris) look at JDK documentation, do we specify version needed clearly enough on this page https://spaces.at.internet2.edu/display/Grouper/Grouper+Installer
[AI] (Chris) look at improving the Tomcat installation doc https://spaces.at.internet2.edu/display/Grouper/Grouper+UI+Installation
[AI] (Emily and Chris) work on broken link on Contributions page to yale-cas-auth/README.html
[AI] (Chris and Vivek) will discuss items on the Grouper Roadmap for Vivek to work on, perhaps JDK?
[AI] (Shilen) review code to determine what improvements can be made regarding the issue of PIT tables and change log consumer
[AI] (Chris) create JIRA for Grouper loader log dates (mysql?)
Carry Over Action Items
[AI] (Dave) look at PSP replace attribute issue.
[AI] Chris follow up on question re opt-out hook and a second hook that prevents an group admin from removing the priv.
https://lists.internet2.edu/sympa/arc/grouper-users/2015-08/msg00001.html
[AI] (Chris) document JNDI and paging on the wiki
Grouper 2.2.2
Goal is to release Grouper 2.2.2. prior to the 2015 Technology Exchange (early Oct.)
This release incorporates about 40 patches. as listed on the Grouper Release Notes page.
Goal: release of Grouper 2.2.2 by Wed. Sept. 23
Chris working on status servlet.
It has problems when loader jobs not configured correctly
Patch dependencies can get complex
Don’t want to maintain multiple versions in the demo server
Upgrade to Grouper 2.2.2. will be low-risk
This will benefit maven developers & users
Q: Will there be a path from 2.1 to 2.2.2?
A: Yes
Strategy after release of 2.2.2
The Grouper team has been quite responsive to requests for enhancements and has created multiple patches.
Moving forward, we need to spend less time on enhancements and patches
and focus the work on Grouper 2.3
Vivek interested in working on Elastic search
Jim has worked on this
Chris: live privileges would need to be taken into account while working on elastic privileges
Jim: agreed that privileges and effective memberships are complex when looking at elastic search
[AI] (Chris and Vivek) will discuss items on the Grouper Roadmap for Vivek to work on, perhaps JDK?
Issue roundup
Google apps bugs 1173-1177
https://bugs.internet2.edu/jira/browse/GRP-1177
Shilen working on this
There were 5 issues, 4 of 5 are resolved
Brown snapshot too old, Oracle error
Shilen: single query caused the error.
they decided to move the groups, to cause less churn
It seemed to be a database issue
Grouper demo server authn with google
Shilen handled these issues
Chris created a patch
Hope that’s useful to others
Chris : progress dots only printed out on certain things now and that solved
Oracle charset issues on startup
Can be handled in Grouper Properties
Regroup is for Emergency Notifications
They have hundreds of HE clients
Chris sent email to Grouper-users list regarding this
PIT tables and change log consumer
Shilen: There can be an issue with bottleneck using a single thread.
Brown has noticed this.
Concern that multiple threads can lead to things out of order.
Q: Chris; are there ways to provision that skip the change log.. such as using hooks?
A: Shilen: might work, risk of double changes?
- [AI] (Shilen) review code to determine what improvements can be made regarding the issue of PIT tables and change log consumer
User sees recent activity (all) on UI
Vivek working on this
Multiple group add to single user - Chris captured this in JIRA
Delete multiple groups in UI - Chris captured in JIRA
Status URL bad loader config - Chris working on
UI authn with CAS (need doc update?) -
[AI] Chris will look at improvements to doc around UI Authn with CAS
Subjects manage groups themselves?
email was not clear - Chris replied
Change display properties of groups and propagate to include/exclude
Vivek did this, Chris edited it. Should add value. There is a switch to turn this enhancement off if desired
Grouper loader log dates (mysql?) - Chris looking at this issue
[AI] (Chris) create JIRA for Grouper loader log dates (mysql?)
Broken link to CAS, broken links in general
[AI] (Emily and Chris) work on broken link on Contributions page to yale-cas-auth/README.html
It was a JDK version issue…. can’t use jdk1.8.0_45… https://spaces.at.internet2.edu/display/Grouper/Grouper+Installer
[AI] (Chris) look at JDK documentation, do we specify version needed clearly enough?
Tomcat installation issue https://lists.internet2.edu/sympa/arc/grouper-users/2015-08/msg00061.html
Linda at U Alaska found doc confusing.
[AI] (Chris) look at improving the Tomcat installation doc https://spaces.at.internet2.edu/display/Grouper/Grouper+UI+Installation
Grouper BOF
at 2015 Technology Exchange program
Tuesday, 10/06/15, 12:30PM-1:30PM
https://meetings.internet2.edu/2015-technology-exchange/detail/10004043/
Next Grouper Call: Wed. Sept. 9, 2015