Hi All,

I thought I would give a quick update on the status of the Central Authentication project. Most of these items are being tested in a staging environment and are not yet in production. Here's what I've worked on so far:

User DB ======= FAS (https://github.com/fedora-infra/fas) was chosen as our authentication system, but it needed some work to remove the bits specific to The Fedora Project. That debranding work can be found here: https://github.com/bstinsonmhk/fas

These are the major things that happened: - Replaced Fedora branding/assets with CentOS branding/assets - Patched out bugzilla operations - Patched out the CLA/FPCA

Tool Integration - Gitblit ========================== git.centos.org is a public-facing gitblit (http://gitblit.com) instance, and needed a plugin to authenticate with FAS. That work was a chance for me to brush up on some Java :) and can be found here: https://github.com/bstinsonmhk/gitblit-fas-plugin

As of now, this plugin is functional but some optimizations are still needed in jFAS2 (the component that communicates with the FAS instances)

Tool Integration - Lookaside ============================ The lookaside is for non-text sources necessary for building RPMs in the CBS (e.g. upstream source tarballs). Some modifications were needed to the upload script from Fedora to accommodate our infrastructure. Special thanks to Howard Johnson for getting us started: https://github.com/bstinsonmhk/centos-lookaside

Staging Instance ================ Very soon, a staging setup will be complete and running in devcloud (http://wiki.centos.org/DevCloud). This will include shadow instances of each of our services (koji, gitblit, FAS, etc.) for testing purposes. Mostly this has been infrastructure work, but I'm happy to talk about the details if anyone is interested.

Outstanding action-items I'm working on for the staging instance: - Put shadow-gitblit behind a servlet container (Tomcat) - Add the test CA to shadow-koji - Write up an easy testing workflow (connecting to the private network)

How to help =========== As soon as we have a staging instance up and running I'd like a bit of help testing the whole workflow, from initial signup to joining a group to building a package. If you're a member of a SIG and would like to spend a couple of minutes going through this please let me know and I'll contact you when we're ready.

Feel free to look through the repositories listed above, and add comments or patches here on the mailing list.

Cheers! Brian