Federation Plugin allows identity linking from various id repositories such as NIS, AD and LDAP into a single account in the global repository. 

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Issue dump from jira
$VAR1 = {
          'priority' => '3',
          'customFieldValues' => [],
          'project' => 'PENROSE',
          'status' => '1',
          'components' => [
                            {
                              'name' => 'Module',
                              'id' => '10017'
                            }
                          ],
          'reporter' => 'jimyang',
          'key' => 'PENROSE-274',
          'assignee' => 'jimyang',
          'summary' => 'Federation Plugin',
          'id' => '10913',
          'updated' => '2008-06-27 17:13:42.0',
          'votes' => '0',
          'fixVersions' => [
                           {
                             'releaseDate' => '2008-08-28 00:00:00.0',
                             'sequence' => '30',
                             'name' => 'Penrose-2.0',
                             'released' => 'false',
                             'id' => '10132',
                             'archived' => 'false'
                           }
                         ],
          'affectsVersions' => [],
          'description' => 'Federation Plugin allows identity linking from various id repositories such as NIS, AD and LDAP into a single account in the global repository. ',
          'created' => '2007-11-08 02:04:03.0',
          'type' => '2'
        };


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