Thanks, Kevin!

On Wed, Dec 16, 2015 at 11:33 AM, Kevin Minder <[email protected]
> wrote:

> Hi Everyone,
> I’ve practiced through the release mechanics so I’ll volunteer for be the
> release manager for 0.7.0 assuming we all agree to move forward.
> Kevin.
>
>
>
>
> On 12/15/15, 4:29 PM, "larry mccay" <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> >I will take on the task of merging the lists and prepare a patch for that
> >immediately.
> >
> >On Tue, Dec 15, 2015 at 4:27 PM, Kevin Minder <
> [email protected]>
> >wrote:
> >
> >> I’m in favor of continuing to stabilize the 0.7.0 branch with the
> current
> >> bits we have and then doing an 0.8.0 with the new KNOX-641 stuff as
> quickly
> >> as possible after that.
> >> KNOX-641 ends up providing a wonderful new big feature set and we are
> >> going to need to bandwidth to learn/absorb it.
> >>
> >> BTW here is my take on all of the commits from the branch point for
> >> 0.6.0.  Seems we are getting better with our CHANGES discipline but
> there
> >> is still a great deal of room for improvement.  The CHANGES file has ~30
> >> entries for 0.7.0 and the list below has about ~90 entries.
> >>
> >> [KNOX-639] - Knoxcli.sh create-master should not allow empty strings
> >> KNOX-640 - Make Cookie Domain Configurable
> >> [KNOX-638] - Hive dispatch failing for secure clusters
> >> KNOX-626 Minor fix to namespace parsing
> >> KNOX-637 - Compilation Error in gateway-service-admin and gateway-test
> >> test projects (arshad.mohammad via lmccay)
> >> KNOX-636 - IdentityAsserterHttpServletRequestWrapper must override
> >> getUserPrincipal
> >> KNOX-635 - open up default whitelist for dev - localhost
> >> KNOX-635 - Provide Whitelisting for Redirect Destinations for KnoxSSO
> >> KNOX-634 - CORS Support as Part of WebAppSec Provider
> >> KNOX-632 added back configuration for 'replayBufferSize'
> >> KNOX-633: Upgrade apache commons-collections
> >> KNOX-632: Oozie dispatch failing for secure clusters. Fix tests.
> >> KNOX-632: Oozie dispatch failing for secure clusters
> >> KNOX-625 initial template file for topology using ui proxy services
> >> KNOX-623: Gateway provider rewriter doesn't support boolean attributes
> in
> >> HTML.
> >> KNOX-622 - Misconfigured providers should cause topology deployment to
> fail
> >> KNOX-624: Expose configuration for Jetty's request and response buffer
> >> sizes. Fix property names.
> >> KNOX-624: Expose configuration for Jetty's request and response buffer
> >> sizes
> >> KNOX-621 - Simplify KnoxSSO API Resource Path
> >> KNOX-620: Jenkins Knox-master-verify failing since #725 due to JDK
> version
> >> issues
> >> KNOX-394: Request and response URLs must be parsed as literals not
> >> templates. Part 2.
> >> KNOX-394: Request and response URLs must be parsed as literals not
> >> templates
> >> KNOX-617 - Add the use of CredentialCollectors to Samples
> >> KNOX-616: XmlUrlRewriteStreamFilter unscapes escaped special characters
> >> KNOX-611: Expose configuration for Jetty's thread pool and connection
> queue
> >> KNOX-604: Expose configuration of HttpClient's max connections per route
> >> setting
> >> KNOX-614: Incorrect URI template expansion with {**} query params
> >> #fragments
> >> KNOX-615 Domain Cookies cannot Wildcard IP Addresses
> >> KNOX-613 - Provide Credential Collector Abstraction to Client Shell
> >> KNOX-610 - DefaultTokenService issueToken should never return null
> >> KNOX-609 - Add unit tests for the SSOCookieFederationProvider.
> >> KNOX-608: Improve Knox read and write performance by tuning buffer
> sizes.
> >> KNOX-607 - Fix SSOCookieProvider to Handle null Query Strings
> >> KNOX-602 - protect against NPE in audience validation
> >> KNOX-603: Coverity: Potential resource leak in
> >> BaseKeystoreService.createKeystore
> >> KNOX-602 JWT/SSO Cookie Based Federation Provider
> >> KNOX-601: Knox test failures on windows
> >> KNOX-600 setting all service params as filter params for dispatch
> >> KNOX-593 removed replayBufferSize and CappedBufferHttpEntity references
> >> KNOX-447: Incorrect parsing and expansion of valueless query params
> >> KNOX-599: Template with {**} in queries are expanded with =null for
> query
> >> params without a value
> >> KNOX-598: Concurrent JDBC clients via KNOX to Kerberized HiveServer2
> >> causes HTTP 401 error (due to Kerberos
> >> KNOX-570 added zookeeper lookup capability for HS2 HA
> >> KNOX-596: Add diagnostics to topology depoloyment
> >> KNOX-597: Improve diagnostic logging of HTTP traffic. Update CHANGES.
> >> KNOX-597: Improve diagnostic logging of HTTP traffic
> >> KNOX-593 Moved SPNEGO code to httpclient
> >> KNOX-584 Fix for UT instability in
> GatewayBasicFuncTest.testCLIServiceTest
> >> KNOX-590 - add more ShiroProvider configuration support to KnoxCLI
> >> sys-user-auth-test and user-auth-test
> >> KNOX-582 Query Parameter rewrite does not honor empty string value
> >> (jeffreyr via lmccay)
> >> KNOX-581: Hive dispatch not propagating effective principal name
> >> KNOX-580 Initial refactoring out of default HA dispatch
> >> KNOX-579: Regex based identity assertion provider with static dictionary
> >> lookup
> >> KNOX-576: CLI user-auth-test should print a message when a user
> >> successfully authenticates.
> >> KNOX-565: Supporting All the Quick Links on Ambari Dashboard to Go
> Through
> >> Knox
> >> KNOX-564: NPE for Topology with no Providers Confgured
> >> KNOX-575: Add more logging for LDAP Authentication issues with
> >> ShiroProvider
> >> KNOX-573: KNOX-574 make SecureOnly and MaxAge configurable for SSO
> >> KNOX-549: Test service connections through Knox with Knox CLI
> >> KNOX-566 - Make the Default Ephemeral DH Key Size 2048 for TLS
> >> KNOX-460: UrlRewriteServletFilterTest failed with IBM JAVA
> >> KNOX-423: XmlFilterReaderTest failed with IBM JVM JAVA
> >> KNOX-548: LDAP Bind in Knox CLI. Fixed help usage.
> >> KNOX-562: Fix Null pointer exceptions in KnoxCLI LDAP commands
> >> KNOX-548: KnoxCLI adds a new system-user-auth-test command to test a
> >> topology's system username and password
> >> KNOX-560: Test LDAP Authentication+Authorization from KnoxCLI
> >> KNOX-561: Allow Knox pid directory to be configured via the knox-env.sh
> >> file
> >> KNOX-559 renaming service definition files
> >> KNOX-558: HttpClient connections are not always returned to the pool for
> >> HBase on Windows
> >> KNOX-554: Cannot access topologies through admin API if gateway.path is
> >> modified
> >> KNOX-556 - fix extraneous imports
> >> KNOX-556 - provide better diagnostics for keystore failures
> >> KNOX-555: Prevent dispatch client from attempting retry and redirects
> >> KNOX-553: Added topology validation from KnoxCLI to TopologyService
> >> deployment.
> >> KNOX-547: Topology Validation in Knox CLI. Fix schema load from JAR
> >> NullPointerException
> >> KNOX-547: Topology Validation in Knox CLI
> >> KNOX-550 reverting back to original hive kerberos dispatch behavior
> >> KNOX-546 Consuming intermediate response during kerberos request
> >> dispatching
> >> KNOX-545 - Simplify Keystore Management for Cluster Scaleout
> >> KNOX-544: Knox process does not exit if startup fails due to credential
> >> store issues
> >> KNOX-476 implementation for X-Forwarded-* headers support and population
> >> KNOX-539 add message to identity mapping audit entries
> >> KNOX-538: Log some important system properties at startup
> >> KNOX-534 auditing shiro authentication exceptions
> >> KNOX-533 - add version component to knoxsso url pattern
> >> KNOX-291: Improve audit for topology deployment process
> >> KNOX-532: Update root pom.xml maven-compiler-plugin configuration.
> >> KNOX-531 fix extraneous audit entries and add additional principal
> mapping
> >> test
> >> KNOX-529 - second attempt to get all usecases - missed wildcard plus
> >> explicit mappings before
> >> KNOX-530 fixed oozie rewrite rules to handle missing port information
> >> KNOX-529 - Fix wildcard based principal group mapping
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> On 12/15/15, 3:11 PM, "larry mccay" <[email protected]> wrote:
> >>
> >> >Knox dev's -
> >> >
> >> >We need to start locking down the release for 0.7.0.
> >> >In preparation of this, Sumit created a branch a week or so ago and we
> >> >should start considering the creation of a release candidate.
> >> >
> >> >I believe that I have to update the CHANGES file with an entry for a
> patch
> >> >that I cherry picked into 0.7.0 branch and I will look into that
> shortly.
> >> >
> >> >Standout features include: KnoxSSO for WebSSO, HA support for numerous
> >> >services, diagnostic commands for KnoxCLI, regex based identity
> >> >assertion, better control over thread pool, connection queue and
> >> >request/response buffers. The ability to proxy Hadoop UIs, CORS support
> >> for
> >> >cross origin request sharing and more. As well as a number of important
> >> bug
> >> >fixes.
> >> >
> >> >We do have an important feature coming from the community -
> specifically
> >> >from Jérôme that will be committed in coming days. KNOX-641 adds a
> >> >federation provider that integrates pac4j in order to add: OAuth,
> >> Facebook,
> >> >CAS, SAML, OpenID Connect. I think that this is an exciting integration
> >> >that will require a bit of testing before it can be merged into a
> release
> >> >branch.
> >> >
> >> >In my opinion, the set of features and improvements that are currently
> in
> >> >the v0.7.0 branch more than justify a new release and delaying that any
> >> >longer would be less than ideal.
> >> >
> >> >Concentrating on defining and testing the usecases that the pac4j
> provider
> >> >will bring to the table post 0.7.0 and coming up with a compelling
> story
> >> >for that feature set can be used to justify a release of its own. I
> think
> >> >that we should target a feature release which we'll call 0.8.0 for now
> for
> >> >a mid January timeframe.
> >> >
> >> >So, discussion points:
> >> >
> >> >1. Should we move forward with the 0.7.0 release once the CHANGES file
> is
> >> >updated?
> >> >2. Thoughts on holding the pac4j provider out until an early 2016
> release
> >> >when the main usecases are better defined and tested?
> >> >
> >> >thanks,
> >> >
> >> >--larry
> >>
>

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