-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA512 Hello everyone,
In order to better coordinate maintenance of Shibboleth-related packages [1] in Ubuntu, I created a new team "pkg-shibboleth" on Launchpad [2] and invite everyone interested to join it. I see this team as a kind of equivalent to the Debian Shibboleth packaging team. In the same move, I would like to use the Git repositories on salsa.debian.org [3] to maintain Shibboleth packages for Ubuntu (under the ubuntu/ namespace as per DEP-14 [4]) and keep them as identical as possible to the Debian packages (like they are now). With common packaging repositories, security fixes should also be easier to coordinate (cherry-picking patches, for example). One of my goals with this initiative is to provide backports of the latest Shibboleth version for Ubuntu LTS releases through official channels (i.e. <lts>-backports). I've been doing backports for Debian since 2016 both in the official archive and with a private repository [5] with help from the Debian Maintainer (thanks Ferenc!) and Shibboleth developers (thanks Scott!), on time and resources provided by my employer (SWITCH). SWITCH's private repository [5] is intended for Shibboleth users in Switzerland, but in practice it has gained a world-wide audience. By using official Ubuntu channels, I want to make those packages available to every Ubuntu user without configuring a third-party repository, as is already the case with Debian. Also this opens the door to collective maintenance at a central place instead of pushing other interested developers into operating their own repository in case they want to release faster than I do or support older LTS releases. I hope this team gathers enough interest to build a sustainable group of maintainers. I also warmly welcome guidance from experienced Ubuntu developers, being quite new to Ubuntu-specific processes and tools. Sincerely, Etienne [1] source packages: log4shib, opensaml, shibboleth-resolver, shibboleth-sp, xml-security-c, xmltooling https://qa.debian.org/developer.php?email=pkg-shibboleth-devel%40lists.a lioth.debian.org [2] https://launchpad.net/~pkg-shibboleth [3] https://salsa.debian.org/shib-team [4] https://dep-team.pages.debian.net/deps/dep14/ [5] https://pkg.switch.ch/switchaai/ - -- SWITCH Etienne Dysli Metref, Software Engineer, Trust & Identity Werdstrasse 2, P.O. Box, 8021 Zurich, Switzerland [email protected], https://www.switch.ch/ PGP key: 27F2 6608 F52C BFBC DB5B 61A3 6965 D453 D815 31AD -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iQIzBAEBCgAdFiEELcQv7Fsn8jFmeD9mw2QssxGaOsAFAly4VbEACgkQw2QssxGa OsDp8A/8DSQYiKDaZo2i5q7Cl+flSBo25Wg/idxf12YFPMhCoEs90HQtk/I2KYCi 0JKmVz5aeSd+P1w7JUE2YxGADLzIicT2aHj0HaAFmKab3YKpRYWUwoPtCJFNIPPf zH9wH9BB29i4PlhsQWhhUUreGpVTK9miIQWzeBF0W4y+jOy/6j4TO9vC8+cLrOGT tBY5StCLMSgR4Guz0cAEH9gD32n27HK+XPeR7DOj7aQ4oWphaM7tbbuZlCkrnu+S JlTPaN4kVpzCwkW4HNZn8+7fFIGI3kme325BWm+12XgI4ljhbMf2toDRUCwEHthm aqGtlkHm8QXt1sEV/nONinP8sfkFBW7RywDEsaxM+/HmDDE6SYHdq58kJiWf8oeE K6bm3+ngB1vdj24D/svB2AeMdHlN/HmL1OJAramkfvzAJnsu6+WTjYsxnykOtTFh NnMJcR1LVxOglRBSMz3ldtv6vR5xq5imLhdK2o7WvrQJokQc3WjXQkndCC3Bm5WZ ivUWosMB4ZKTl3p9OvoonlTRH5OLln3H2Z12WcrG/PsraH8CUKDnBgn7TqiIx97I HtpOuiHJxXw6oBY6Ccepot4oZtfqW8sshByoi45eg1B0bMR9JXx+GJz1aHX2xGnK 8YhmqcwrZfOrwPmk4xttfdYp5zP6a6GCWouZU6f4rz1gvVI5gHQ= =q1qs -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- Ubuntu-motu mailing list [email protected] Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-motu
