So, I've given this another week and considered the limited feedback, and at this point I think I'm prepared to propose to the PMC that we treat this as the code migrating from Apache Santuario to the Shibboleth Project as an official hand off of responsibility.
That comes with the understanding that decisions about the code's future are no longer subject to Apache project discussion and process, but by that project, driven by its needs. The code would remain Apache-licensed, as all Shibboleth code is, and be publically available in a publically accessible Git repository (not GitHub, that's not legally feasible right now), have an open bug reporting process, etc. But in terms of what would happen in the future, that would be dictated by the needs of the Shibboleth Project alone, and anything beyond cursory help would be limited to members of our Consortium, which pays for the support we provide to members. My intention would be to handle it as a handoff to avoid having to rename the library artifacts, change the version, etc. at least until such time as a new version were needed, and that would pick up from where it stands today. I appreciate this won't make everybody happy, but being blunt (the only way I know how to be), show up and you can take over if you like and I will back off. Otherwise this is no longer a matter of much debate for me. I will ask the PMC to consider this in private in case they want to discuss any of what I'm suggesting before making a decision, and I'll abide by that decision. -- Scott
