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Hi all,

Let me start with a short overview of what the goal of this working group is and what has been discussed so far in other email threads that kicked this of.

At this point, Fedora Infrastructure is running FAS[1], and planning to upgrade to an upcoming major version, FAS3. CentOS infrastructure is also deploying FAS at this moment, since they needed an authentication system so they can give accounts to SIG[2] members.

Some people have contacted the Fedora Infrastructure and CentOS Infra teams, asking if they would consider migrating from FAS to FreeIPA[3] with a newly built Community Portal[4], which would allow interested community infrastructures to migrate from FAS to FreeIPA.

The goal of this working group is to - - determine what features FreeIPA with the community portal lacks to replace FAS for community projects and - - coordinate their development if the FreeIPA community is willing to add them to make FreeIPA a valid replacement for FAS.

In my opinion, what we need to start with is determining the set of features that community infrastructures need that FreeIPA with Community Portal is lacking, A start for this has been made at [5] by the CentOS people.

I have volunteered to coordinate this working group, and will also be the representative for the Fedora Infrastructure team. Brian Stinson will be the representative for the CentOS Infra team. As infra team representatives, we will be responsible for making sure that our teams' needs are being represented and the respective teams will stay up to date. It would be great if someone could chime in as representative for the FreeIPA project/Community Portal.

Regarding communication in this working group: we will mostly be using this public mailing list, and I will get a wiki page setup for an overview, for which I will send the link to this list in a separate email.

[1]: https://github.com/fedora-infra/fas [2]: https://wiki.centos.org/SpecialInterestGroup [3]: http://www.freeipa.org/ [4]: http://www.freeipa.org/page/V4/Community_Portal [5]: https://wiki.centos.org/InfraWiki/CentralizedAuth

- -- With kind regards, Patrick Uiterwijk Fedora Infra