[Freeipa-devel] Ipsilon vs. FedOAuth

[Simo Sorce]

On Thu, 2014-08-07 at 18:21 +0200, Petr Spacek wrote:
> On 23.7.2014 11:14, Petr Spacek wrote:
> > Hello list,
> >
> > I have noticed that Fedora is heavily using project FedOAuth:
> >
> > Federated Open Authentication
> > "FedOAuth is a provider for federated authentication mechanisms with a modular
> > authentication backend."
> >
> > It sounds somewhat similar to our Ipsilon project and it is also written in
> > Python.
> >
> > Maybe it would be beneficial to somehow cooperate ...
> 
> There is silence like in a grave so I have tried to contact FedOAuth people in
> https://github.com/FedOAuth/FedOAuth/issues/61
> 
> And I have got a reply!
> 
> "
>  > It seems that FedOAuth and Ipsilon projects are somehow similar. Maybe it 
> would be beneficial to cooperate and possibly share some code.
> [...]
> 
> Hi, this would certainly be interesting.
> I've got SAML, OpenID, OpenID Connect and Persona providers currently, and for 
> backends I currently have the Fedora Account System, a preconfigured user, 
> LDAP, kerberos and a database-backed module.
> What was your exact idea for collaboration?
> "
> https://github.com/FedOAuth/FedOAuth/issues/61#issuecomment-50056634
> 
>  From this text, it seems that FedOAuth is light years away (more mature) than 
> Ipsilon - and FedOAuth is actually used in production now (by Fedora 
> infrastructure).
> 
> 
> So the inevitable questions are:
> - What can Ipsilon do and what can't be done with FedOAuth?
> - Can we simply add missing features to FedOAuth?
> I.e.
> - Is it worth to spend more time on Ipsilon?
> 
> Sorry Simo, this is not a meant as personal attack! :-)

Oh I do not take it personally at all, I will take a look and see how
much overlap there is.

Simo.

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