Hello Simone, Some responses to your concerns.
I agree that the term "third party" is not applicable any longer to geofence, so I will change the text to more appropriately mention geofence as a proper extension that can be used as alternative. I think geofence has a lot of value as a geoserver extension because it is much more advanced than the default security system and offers much more flexibility, the ability to connect to LDAP,..., and on top of it offers an easy to use GUI. As I understand it geofence will become an integrated and supported extension of geoserver but remains to be optional; and users will still have the choice between the default text-based config system and the more advanced and flexible database driven geofence system. It appears that there is a demand from people who wish to continue use the basic security config files but still wish to have the added basic flexibility of combining layer and service security. Geofence of course already has this ability, and in that sense it is indeed a duplication of efforts, but as far as I can see we won't be in each other's way with our future efforts if geofence remains optional and the text-based security continues to exist. The way I see it this remains separate. Unless your plans of integration are not completely clear to me? Kind Regards Niels On 21-01-15 19:52, Simone Giannecchini wrote: > Ciao Niels, > we discussed this a little bit and there is some feedback I would like > to report fro me: > > - In the motivation section you mention "It is currently possible to > accomplish this using a third party security subsystem". Well, we > contributed GeoFence to the GeoServer codebase hence is not really a > third party tool; we are about to ask the community to bring to > standard extension status (which means docs + more tests) as we have > currently more than 3 users relying on it and we have plans for > tighter integration in GeoServer. > - Given what I said above there is a clear duplication of efforts > ahead of us and I would like to hear a few words on how we can > mitigate it (especially since you have some knowledge of GeoFance) if > not resolve it. > > I don't want to act as a showstopper but the proposal to be > accepatable from my side needs to addres my concerns above more > thoroughly. > > > Regards, > Simone Giannecchini > == > GeoServer Professional Services from the experts! Visit > http://goo.gl/NWWaa2 for more information. > > Please, notice that GeoSolutions will be closed for seasonal holidays > from December the 24th to January the 6th > == > > Ing. 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