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On Tue, Apr 7, 2020 at 10:49 AM Joel Speed <
jsp...@redhat.com> wrote:
>
> Hi All,
>
> Wanted to chime in here as the lead maintainer and representative of the oauth2-proxy[1] project.
>
> I was approached by the Keycloak team late 2019 to broach the idea of a potential collaboration.
> OAuth2-Proxy and Keycloak Gatekeeper ultimately occupy the same space within the ecosystem, though the projects historically have been rather different.
>
> While Keycloak Gatekeeper has had backing from Red Hat, the OAuth2 Proxy was originally abandoned by Bitly, then adopted into Pusher for a bit, and is now independent and maintained by myself and couple of others when they have the time.
> This means the two teams have very different experiences when it comes to the shapes of the projects, the resources available and the needs of the users of the projects.
>
> For me, this collaboration gives many new opportunities for both sides:
> - Experiences from both organisations will help to build a better product, and ideally, users of both projects can unite on this new project when it is ready
> - By moving to a new organisation, it is clear that this is an effort driven by a community and not a single company as it has been for both projects historically
> - Combining teams deduplicates the work that we would otherwise be doing individually and spreads the load across more maintainers
>
> While there is still a lot to be decided about how the project is going to move forward, I am personally really excited about this and dedicating as much time as I can to make sure we progress with this at a reasonable pace.
>
> As for governance and authority on keeping the project based on standards, I think this is something that is still to be discussed, @Bruno do you have any thoughts on that?
Indeed, this is still something to be discussed. And I agree with Joel
on all the opportunities we have with this effort. We are joining
forces to build a healthier and better project, by benefiting from the
experience of both organizations and communities.
>
> Happy to field any questions on the topic from my perspective if that's useful,
>
> --
>
> Joel
>
> [1]:
https://github.com/oauth2-proxy/oauth2-proxy/
>
>
> On Monday, April 6, 2020 at 7:09:40 PM UTC+1, Jan Garaj wrote:
>>
>> Who will be in that new separate governance structure?
>> Keycloak org is authority with pretty solid authentication/authorization
>> knowledge and I would like to be sure, that there still be authority,
>> which will reject any out of standard pull requests.
>>
>> On Monday, April 6, 2020 at 7:14:45 PM UTC+2, Bruno Oliveira wrote:
>>>
>>> Good afternoon,
>>>
>>> We're evaluating the possibility of moving Gatekeeper out of Keycloak
>>> organization, to a dedicated organization. The motivation behind this
>>> is to join the efforts with other companies and individual
>>> contributors to build a neutral and fully standard-based proxy
>>> solution to provide a great experience for application developers, by
>>> having a separate governance structure detached from the Keycloak org.
>>>
>>> Part of the Keycloak team will be working full time on it in
>>> collaboration with companies and external contributors. Before moving
>>> forward with any plans, we would like to hear your thoughts on this.
>>>
>>> Note: I'm sending this email to each contributor that dedicated some
>>> time to Gatekeeper.
>>>
>>> --
>>> - abstractj
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