Larry, I'm +1 on the content, timing and you being RM. Kevin.
On 3/8/16, 9:22 AM, "larry mccay" <[email protected]> wrote: >All - > >I'd like to volunteer to be the release manager for the 0.9.0 release >unless someone else would like to take it instead. > >In addition, I think that we need to scope the release and driving usecases >and a target date for the release. > >We currently have ~25 JIRAs slated for 0.9.0 and most fall into one or more >of the following categories: > >* dependency upgrades and related fixes >* proxying of UIs for Ambari and Ranger and related issues >* the hosting of web applications >* the addition of an application for a default KnoxSSO form based login >* PAM authentication provider - MISSING DOCs and TESTs >* various bug fixes and incremental improvements > >It seems that around half of these are already set to fixed. > >If there are additional issues that folks would like to get into the 0.9.0 >release then we should discuss anything that would require a sizable change >and file JIRAs for them asap. > >I believe that from the above categories that we can adjust the driving >usecases from the 0.8.0 release to reflect the shift of focus from external >applications to: > >1. SSO participation by applications like Ranger and Ambari while being >proxied through the gateway. > >2. Authentication natively done by Ranger and Ambari applications while >being proxied through Knox. > >3. the usecase of a custom application like the Knoxplorer sample can now >be hosted by Knox and this needs to be covered and tested with KnoxSSO. > >4. Default Knox authentication with form based application as KnoxSSO IDP. > >5. any additional API support and various features and improvements. > >It seems to me that we could start considering a 1.0 release. If this seems >like a reasonable time to do that then we should open up discussion for any >additional improvements or changes that we'd want to include in order to >make it our 1.0. > >Given the above scope and driving usecases, I'd like to propose an end of >March release. > >Thoughts? > >thanks, > >--larry
