OpenQabal Update

Ok, the new OpenQabal release that was mentioned a few weeks ago is *finally* eminent. No really, it's coming soon. The big hold-up turned out to be a bit of Roller integration that had been overlooked. Getting single-sign-on and integration with the centralized identity stuff working using Acegi and CAS takes care of web access; and that stuff has been in place for a while now. But at some point we realized that API access for posting new blog entries also needed to be wired into the new authentication stuff. And that's a whole new can of worms.

Basically, deciding to implement that in this release meant moving forward with implementing an initial version of what we're calling the IdentityEngine, which will eventually be the centralized source for all things identity, vis-a-vis OpenQabal. Even for OpenID logins or other logins using an external authentication provider, OpenQabal has to keep track of that that that such-and-such identity exists, and map it to resources, etc. So getting this piece in place was kind of a big deal, even if this first cut at it is fairly naive.

Anyway, with that in place and API access now working, the last things left to do before a release are basically all "fit and polish" work. Clean up some loose ends here and there, more testing, tweaking the SQL scripts and the install scripts. Oh, and the install stuff needs to be tested on Windows and any relevant tweaks made. At any rate, if things go well, look for the new release maybe this weekend, or early next week.

Syndicated 2008-04-29 04:09:50 (Updated 2008-05-04 21:50:28) from openqabal