Parsec Community Meeting (13/10/2020) 📋

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Attendance

Fresh news on Parsec work
Should we add features in the Rust client? Example with SPIFFE-based authentication.
How and where should we maintain the project roadmap?

The rust-spiffe dependency also depends on grpcio with either finds of compile natively the gRPC Core library. As a result the compile time is increased and the binary is bigger for the client.
Main concern is the complaints from people who are building Parsec based applications with the knowledge that they will not need the SPIFFE-based authentication method.
For most other cases: you do not have enough knowledge of where you Cloud Native application is going to be deployed to know that you will never need this authenticator.
The gRPC Core build is self-contained and should not cause many compilation issues.
The binary should get lighter for a release build.
Decision: a config flag will be set, but will be on by default. People with enough knowledge of their system will be able to remove it.
The Project Roadmap agenda item was not discussed and is rolled to the next community meeting.