Hi Saminda, Thanks for taking the initiate on the release and implicitly to be the release manager :), the release management instructions [1] are in good shape now and I will be happy to help with release logistics and update the instructions as we learn through.
Comments on the release features: On Nov 7, 2012, at 2:46 PM, Raminderjeet Singh <[email protected]> wrote: > One step should be to remove dependency of direct sql interactions from Xbaya > and use Rest services. Right now user need to know database credentials to > connect to airavata registry from Xbaya. + 1, this should get addressed through the rest interface, but we should focus on this aspect to ensure. A good way to check is all clients including xbaya should not need airavata-server.properties and should only need airavata-client.properties with default registry service end point which should be configurable from xbaya menu. > On Nov 7, 2012, at 2:37 PM, Saminda Wijeratne wrote: > >> Main features targeted for 0.6 release so far, >> >> 1. Registry Rest Service API >> The Registry Service API will be the same as Registry API in Airavata 0.5. >> It will have JSON support to handle the complex objects. A good addition. We need to ensure, airavata client uses this service api's and ensure all interactions to airavata come through the client. I created lira's AIRAVATA-631, AIRAVATA-632 and AIRAVATA-633 on this topic. >> 2. Security framework for Airavata web services >> This is the first introduction of a security framework for working with >> Airavata system. For 0.6 we will have this security framework applied to >> the Registry Rest service. Currently supporting authentication mechanisms >> based on above framework are the following, >> >> - Basic Authentication [shipped as the default configuration with h2 >> back-end] >> - Session Authentication We first should asses the feasibility and implementation on adding security modules into the release. Since they are in the sandbox now, probably a good time to merge them into trunk and brainstorm how this will impact tutorials and so forth. I see an open JIRA's on this - AIRAVATA-560. Cheers, Suresh [1] - http://airavata.apache.org/development/release-management.html >> >> Comments, suggestions, additions are welcome.... >> >> Regards, >> Saminda >
