Removing the application tree

[Russ Allbery]

Sam Hartman <hartmans-ietf at MIT.EDU> writes:

> Hi.

> We'd really love to see src/appl ejected from the MIT Kerberos
> distribution.

> At one point you wanted to work to maintain that tree.  I suspect other
> members of our team would also be interested in helping some, but we'd
> like to get it out of our core release.

> If you're still interested in this, what can we all do to move this
> forward?  If you are no longer interested, is anyone else interested in
> taking over the Kerberos applications?

I'm interested in and willing to help maintain appl/bsd.  We don't use
anything else in the appl tree except telnet and we're going to retire
telnet, so I'm probably not going to be in a position to help with the
other bits.

I have a fairly limited amount of time to work on this currently, but that
may slowly get better.

Off the top of my head, I think we'd need:

* A Subversion repository.
* A bug-tracking system with a separate queue for the appl tree.
* Some location from which to distribute new releases.

I don't know how much of that should be provided by MIT and/or the
Kerberos Consortium and how much we should come up with for ourselves
(particularly the last one).

The first step would probably be to take the current code from Subversion
HEAD, figure out what's required to make it a standalone distribution that
links against whatever Kerberos libraries one happens to have around, and
releasing that as the first release.

I don't know what the Heimdal folks think about their tree, whether their
implementations are any better than the ones in MIT as a starting point,
or whether they would like to join in with this effort.  Someone should
probably at least have that conversation with them.

-- 
Russ Allbery (rra at stanford.edu)             <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>