Ilja Booij wrote:
Aaron Stone wrote:
Ilja Booij <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
I'd like to release 2.0rc8 (yes, flawed release engineering etc, no
need to discuss that right now I think) tomorrow, August 17th (at
about 4pm CET(=3pm GMT)). I'm not aware of any issues that should be
resolved at the moment. am I correct? Please correct me if I'm wrong.
Sounds good! Main things in this release:
- All new command line switches
- PID files for all daemons
- Database prefixes
- Misc. bugfixes
Things still broken:
- users table and LDAP integration
So RC8 will be about making sure that the new stuff works, and RC9
will be
about making sure that LDAP works. Does that sound right? Anything
else to
test?
I'm wondering about the amount of work that needs to go into making
LDAP authentication work. Can someone (Aaron, Paul) give an indication
about it. I'll try to get up to speed on LDAP programming ASAP. Can
somebody point me to some good tutorials/manuals on the web?
On the other hand... It's probably more useful to release first, and fix
LDAP support later. LDAP is a big thing, and might better wait until
after release. I reckon most current users won't need LDAP, and thus
will be happily running DBMail 2.0 while we fix LDAP support. The only
problem that I see in this respect is the fact that we might have to
make a small change in the database structure, but this can be tackled
by supplying good migration scripts.
Of course, nothing is preventing anyone from fixing LDAP now. We can
just put it in later (and people that want to run with LDAP support can
use a patch).
What do you think?
Talking of migrationscripts:
It might be wise to build some functionality into DBMail for checking
the structure of the database. This function can check for the existence
of tables and their fields. If this is run on every startup, we can
prevent running we have faulty database. Just a thought.
Ilja
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