Hi Leif,
I added 2 pipes to buildin.py:
- publish_html creates static HTML views of IDPs and SPs, using XSLT based on Peter Schober’s alternative to MET;
- publish_split: similar to store, but added validUntil and creates signed XML-file per EntityDescriptor. This can be consumed dynamically by ADFS in an IDP role.
I put it directly into buildin.py because it shares some code with the sign pipe. Is this viable from your PoV - if yes, I would make an PR.
Cheers, Rainer
Hi all,
being part of Commons Conservancy brought up yet another subject,
which is whether we should add a header with license information in
every file in the projects under idpy. This is not something done in
an abstract way, there is a specific format modelling this information
(see https://spdx.org/ and https://reuse.software/ - more specifically
https://reuse.software/practices/2.0/) Still, I find it problematic.
We want to open up the question to the wider community and consider
their thoughts on this. The forwarded message below is discussing this
subject. You can see the question we posed, the answer we got and my
comments. Feel free to tell us what you think on this.
---------- Forwarded message ---------
Date: Thu, 16 May 2019 at 09:56
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> Date: May 8, 2019, 8:15 AM -0700
>
> > Why does CC think having a single license file per project is
> > insufficient? Our thought is that if we can avoid adding a header to
> > every single file, that would be nice, esp. given we already have this
> > info in the license file and we have the Note Well.
>
>
> this is not just our opinion, but something that is an industry and
> community standard for legal compliance these days. When companies like
> Siemens, Samsung or Honeywell use some code in one of the hundreds or
> thousands of devices and systems in their product line, they need to be
> able to provide the correct license and a download of the exact version.
> This means machine readability too.
>
I've actually observed the opposite of that. Communities abandon the
"license in every file" model, and just use a single LICENSE file in
the root of the project. The LICENSE file contains license
information, that is, it is not a single license but it has exception
sections and so on.
> To quote from https://reuse.software/practices/2.0/ :
>
> Scroll to the section "2. Include a copyright notice and license in each
> file"...
>
> "Source code files are often reused across multiple projects, taken from
> their origin and repurposed, or otherwise end up in repositories where
> they are separate from its origin. You should therefore ensure that all
> files in your project have a comment header that convey that file’s
> copyright and license information: Who are the copyright holders and
> under which license(s) do they release the file?
>
Continuing from above, the standardization of package-management
formats and tools has helped exactly with that: to avoid distribution
of single files, and instead provide packages and modules. It is bad
practice and considered a hack to copy files. Nobody liked that model
and everyone is moving away; it is unstructured, it becomes
unmanageable and it will cause problems.
> It is highly recommended that you keep the format of these headers
> consistent across your files. It is important, however, that you do not
> remove any information from headers in files of which you are not the
> sole author.
>
> You must convey the license information of your source code file in a
> standardised way, so that computers can interpret it. You can do this
> with an SPDX-License-Identifier tag followed by an SPDX expression
> defined by the SPDX specifications."
>
> (the text goes on for a while after this, to clarify the point but this
> is the basic gist of it)
>
> There is a nice Python tool to check:
>
> https://github.com/fsfe/reuse-tool
>
> I hope this makes sense
>
Well, it does not make complete sense. We're talking about licensing a
project. A project is not just code; there are data files (html, xml,
yaml, json files), binary files (archives/zip, images, audio, video,
etc), text files (configs, ini-files, etc) all "not-code". How do you
mark those files? Does the LICENSE file need a license-header? The
json format does not define comments, how do you add a header there?
If a binary file does not get a license header, why should a file with
code get one?
I would expect there to be a way to have the needed information
unified. If the files themselves cannot provide this information it
has to be external; thus the LICENSE file. If someone is worried about
somebody else re-using single files that do not have license
information (a python file, a png image, etc) there is really nothing
you can do (the DRM industry has been trying to solve for a long time;
and still your best bet is "social DRM").
Since, we're developing on open source with a permissive license, even
if someone does that, should we be happy that someone is actually
using what we built or sad that the files they copied did not have a
license header? And if they include the license information of that
copied file in their project's LICENSE file, is this solved?
Having pointed these contradictions, I am thinking that the "license
in every file" model seems to be a step backwards. It is introducing
overhead and does not really solve the problem, while at the same time
it enables a culture of bad practice (copying files around).
Cheers,
--
Ivan c00kiemon5ter Kanakarakis >:3
Attendees:
Shayna, Matthew, Scott, Roland, Ivan, Heather
Agenda:
0 - Agenda bash
FYI - Heather will be dropping off organizing these calls and Shayna stepping up to fill the gap.
1 - Project review
a. General
eduTEAMS: there has been contact with GEANT working on technical docs and they will be helping with documentation for the front end. The team is also looking at connecting the front end (idpy-oidc) with a postgres database, and part of the database are the secrets for the connected clients. Team needs to properly hash the passwords before storing them. Also, have been seeing some strange behavior that has to do with how state is kept within the front end, but probably idpy-oidc. Should be having code that is loading in memory, but when we restart a node, the information is lost. Once that is solved, everything is in place for eduTEAMS code to go public.
Roland: when it came to storing info over time, decided nothing should happen by 'magic'. If you want to save something, you have to initiate that. If you don't do that, then nothing is stored. This was a design decision early on.
b. OIDC libraries - https://github.com/IdentityPython (idpy-oidc, JWTConnect-Python-CryptoJWT, etc)
Should be ready to merge the backend on Satosa.
• https://github.com/IdentityPython/idpy-oidc/pull/70
Roland is also looking at how to run without pySAML2 so he can run his tests. He is using pytest to find dependencies. That will happen after the backend is merged. Should we add a check at the top of a module to import something from idpy-oidc to see if that works and help check dependencies.
Roland is also starting to look at the wallet documentation. Will do some development to figure out how to make Satosa a credential issuer. All TBD.
• See also one organizations plans to implement: https://italia.github.io/eidas-it-wallet-docs/en/pid-issuance.html
c. Satosa - https://github.com/IdentityPython/SATOSA
• https://github.com/IdentityPython/SATOSA/pull/439
Plans to merge:
• https://github.com/IdentityPython/SATOSA/pull/440 (note, there are contradictions between different specs, and this reflects that. It's about handling duplicate query parameters which may be needed for one of the OIDC specs (where another spec says you shouldn't have duplicate query parameters)
• https://github.com/IdentityPython/SATOSA/pull/427 (fix AppleBackend)
• https://github.com/IdentityPython/SATOSA/pull/419 (Handle OIDC prompt together with SAML ForceAuthn and IsPassive)
• https://github.com/IdentityPython/SATOSA/pull/435 (Ft typing)
• https://github.com/IdentityPython/SATOSA/pull/431 (Introduce SAML SP-initiated Logout to SATOSA proxy)
Note: starting to apply black formatting and pre-commit configuration.
Ivan wants to focus next on the open PR of supporting base paths (https://github.com/IdentityPython/SATOSA/pull/405)
Updating the Satosa image on docker: Matthew is working on that this week.
d. pySAML2 - https://github.com/IdentityPython/pysaml2
Longstanding issue around supporting Windows. There is a problem with how temporary files are managed in Python. The PR is a temporary workaround until future Python core changes.
• https://github.com/IdentityPython/pysaml2/pull/665
Also moving forward with updating the error URL
• https://github.com/IdentityPython/pysaml2/pull/898
And various smaller PRs for maintenance.
More work is needed on new extension points (see conversations in Slack on the #saml channel - https://identity-python.slack.com/archives/CNDLAURU7/p1688030949364249)
e. Any other project (pyFF, djangosaml2, pyMDOC-CBOR, etc)
No updates.
2 - AOB
Note the new TIIME workshop (31 January - 1 February plus side meetings in Copenhagen) has a website: https://tiime-unconference.eu/
Thanks! Heather
