idpy 2020 board meeting and a new project - Idpy-board

15 Sep 2020

      Hello idpy Board members!

I hope this message finds you well and neither sick nor suffering from smoke inhalation.
It has been quite some time since we’ve had a chance to meet, and we have a few things to
cover as a board:

1 - We have a request to add a new project under the idpy umbrella: djangosaml2. I’m
copying the note from Giuseppe de Marco about djangosaml2 below.
See https://dracc.commonsconservancy.org/0025/ for a reminder of how we add new projects
to idpy.
2 - We should think about the 2021 board selection. There are 3 slots, currently filled by
Leif, Christos, and myself, that will be open. Individuals are always welcome to
re-nominate for the Board.

I’d like to get a call on the calendar to catch up on idpy activities, discuss the new
project, and talk about plans for 2021 and beyond. If you would, please fill out the
doodle poll by the end of this week:

https://doodle.com/poll/ckh357gcctrekqvd

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Subject: djangosaml2

Hello everybody,
As you may have guessed from the subject of this email, I have the pleasure of presenting
here djangosaml2, in anticipation of its migration to Identity Python.

In CC Jozef Knaperek, former contributor of pysaml2 and person who from 2016 to date has
maintained the fork of this project, now hosted in the personal github, which today has a
fair audience and satisfaction within the Django community.

Here is:
https://github.com/knaperek/djangosaml2

As is evident, djangosaml2 is an application designed for Django Framework, written above
pysaml2 that presents closely related goals to this. This is why we believe that bringing
djangosaml2 to idpy can be quite natural, and if we want it also advantageous, for the
possibility of increasing its community.

Currently the project is published on Pypi and the version release policy, and acceptance
of contributions, depends on validating the code by running unit tests (Tox over Github
actions). The coverage of djangosaml2 is currently less than 80% in the v0.40.1 but higher
than 90% for the v1.0.0 version (see branch of the same name). The latter is in the
process of being released and it might be a good opportunity to release it directly within
idpy.

The versions from v0.19.0 to v1.0.0 were made possible by a great enthusiasm, which arose
within its community, manifested following the first interactions for the requalification
of the project, as regards the feedback offered both in the issues and in the PR pending.
Having given so much trust activated several contributors in a relatively short time makes
us optimistic about the general resilience of the project, such as to think about the good
health of its community and not least the possibility that this project could hopefully
continue to live on external contributions only.

In any case, the people that are glad to present here djangosaml2, for whom we undertake
the commitment of a management over time, are Me and Knaperek. I know that we have not
written everything but rather we fear we have written too much. We are available to answer
in this thread on further organizational and managerial aspects of the project.

Sure of your kind reply, we greet you

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Thanks! Heather