MIT and the Novell LDAP Contribution

[Savitha R]

Hi,

It is quite disappointing to know that the ldap plugin will not make it
to the 1.5 release.
But we do understand that it will not be good to include it in the
release without complete testing 
and resolving some of the issues which have come up.

Thanks to all those who have been testing and providing inputs and
suggestions about the code.
Let us continue our discussions and make sure that we have solid code
getting into the next release.

Thanks
Savitha

>>> On Fri, Jun 9, 2006 at 10:03 pm, in message
<tsl7j3qi90s.fsf at cz.mit.edu>, Sam
Hartman <hartmans at MIT.EDU> wrote: 

> 
> Hi, folks.
> 
> There has been a lot of discussion over the last couple of weeks
about
> the LDAP plugin.  AS people have tried to use it, they have run into
a
> lot of questions and some initial bugs.  So far, there has been one
> important thing missing from that discussion: thanks to Novell for
> their excellent work.
> 
> Every time some new feature is introduced, particularly some
> complicated feature or change, there's going to be a lot of
> discussions as people find problems, ask questions and propose
> alternative ways of doing something.  Remember how long it took us
to
> get enctype handling right.  Remember the long discussions
surrounding
> TCP.  We're still having periodic discussions of threading.
> 
> The fact that the Novell code is drawing such discussion is a sign
of
> the strong demand for that code.  If Novell hadn't done the hard
work,
> we wouldn't be hear wishing for various improvements in the code.
> 
> Novell has done a great job.  They have also had tremendous
challenges
> working with a complicated code base like MIT Kerberos that they
were
> reasonably unfamiliar with, working with the limited resources we
> could give them discussing design, and yet they managed to deliver.
> Yes, there are problems that need to be fixed.  Yes there are
> improvements we all want.  Both MIT and Novell are committed to
> improving the LDAP code.
> 
> 
> I'd also like to thank Ken Raeburn for tireless hours helping to
> integrate the Novell code into the release.  Integrating a large
third
> party contribution is never easy. Ken has done an excellent job of
> taking components such as the DAL plugin interface and generalizing
> them into a plugin architecture
> 
> Thanks also to all those who have been giving suggestions to Novell
> and MIT for improvements in the code or who have been helping test
and
> find problems.  Your efforts are greatly appreciated.
> 
> 
> Sam Hartman
> Manager, MIT Kerberos Team
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