Following the London Atlassian User Group there was a lot of online discussion about Crowd. In The Wisdom of Crowd? (and at the user group), Miles Metcalfe asked whether Crowd would have Shibboleth.
UK institutions will be pushed to Shibboleth once their current access management service, Athens, becomes chargeable.
Justen Stepka, lead developer on Crowd, responded on his personal blog ("While Shibboleth seems to be very fine tuned, I seem to have more stock in CAS which has an even larger following of academic adopters and even appears to have some integration points with Shibboleth."), and the debate is growing.
We'd love your input on this question, too. Read Justen's blog here.
4 Comment(s)
While we strongly support your supporting CAS, Shibb really needs to be supported because a) it is gaining a lot of currency in the higher ed community and b) Microsoft is also strongly supporting it. For Crowd to be more than a niche toy in our market we need Shibb and Kerberos for that matter.
By Mike Corn at December 30, 2006 1:16 AM
Thanks for the feedback, Mike!
By Jon Silvers at January 2, 2007 5:45 AM
Any plans to support Subversion?
By Thomas Van de Velde at January 4, 2007 9:17 AM
We are a major vendor in the UK and Australian K-12 education markets. We're buying JIRA and Confluence for our development process, and we looked at Crowd for sign-on and identity integration, but the lack of Shibboleth support in Crowd makes it irrelevant to our market.
In particular, the UK national standards body, BECTA, has explicitly specified Shibboleth. It is effectively impossible to sell to UK Education Authorities without BECTA approval.
No Shibboleth = No K-12 education sales.
I can't speak for the way things might play out in Higher Education.
Hope that clarifies the point ;)
By Joshua Goodall at September 27, 2007 11:23 AM