abartlet : what timezone is good to find 'apache directory' developers in? ele-office : abartlet : any TZ. ele-office : there are people in Korea, in Turkey, Germany, France, and USA abartlet : I'm trying to find out a little where this project has come from, and what it's aims are. abartlet : In particular, I come as a Samba4 developer, which has a rather large play in the directories space ele-office : look at : http://directory.apache.org/community/who/akarasulu.html ele-office : this is where apacheDS is coming from ! abartlet : it seems to be a very, very large scope of work ele-office : basically, it's a LDAP server abartlet : that's not the bit that worries me, because I have seen how that can be done abartlet : (Samba4 has it's own ldap server, and it really was not that bitterly painful to build) abartlet : but Kerberos, NTP and everything else? ele-office : these are sub-projects ele-office : they are built beside ADS abartlet : other than love of java, any reason for re-impelemting those? abartlet : I found just the mods I made to Heimdal painful enough, reimplementing looked like a nightmare... ele-office : doing it in java seems one of the reason that led to a reimplementation. abartlet : anyway, I'm mainly just trying to get good contracts with various ldap directory implementors, because I expect there to be strong demand for Samba4 as a frontend to various ldap backends ele-office : it could be interesting to see how samb4 can use ads as an ldap backend. ele-office : and I think it should be really easy. abartlet : yes and no, Samba4 has some very particular requirements for it's LDAP backends ele-office : like ? abartlet : hosting the AD schema abartlet : and behaving like AD in general abartlet : (there are certain operations, such as an add, which are filled out by a server-side template) abartlet : and various operational attributes to be generated etc ele-office : I see. ele-office : AD use a lot of operationnal attributes ele-office : Sorry, I don't know enough about Samba to be able to broing you some lights about the way to use ADS as a ldap backend :( abartlet : I'm also just trying to find out where this project is at ele-office : currentlmy, we are trying to deliver the 1.0 version of the core Ldap Server. ele-office : DNS and Kerberos sub-projects will be delivered almost at the same date. ele-office : their are other sub-projects, too (Penrose, Mitosis, ...) abartlet : how compliant it the kerberos server? ele-office : it is supposed to be fully compliant ele-office : so does Ldap abartlet : the small amount of stuff I looked at looked like it was hardcoded for the old des enc types ele-office : The target is to deliver a server that can pass the Compliance tests of the OpenGroup ele-office : http://www.opengroup.org/certification/directory-home.html ele-office : Kerberos is still a work in progress ;) ele-office : it's version 0.5.1 abartlet : are the developers on the kitten lists? abartlet : (the kerberos working group) ele-office : I don't know ;) I'm not working on kerberos, and Enrique, the one who is working on it with Alex (http://directory.apache.org/community/who/erodriguez.html) is not currently connected ...
-- Emmanuel
