>> I think Kerby is a promising project, but I don't think it has the community >> yet to justify being a TLP. Yeah, Kerberos isn't the cool thing that many developers are eager to work on. There are many reasons. So we probably shouldn't expect a large community for this, it may never happen.
On the other hand, here is the community, as the Apache Directory community. If we have a TLP, we can duplicate the PMCs and committers. Kerby itself does have already diverse committers. My two cents. The question is, would a TLP make Kerby and Directory more healthy, or make us more happy, or make new contributors more easy? Simpler, if a TLP can help build and attract a better community for Kerby, we probably should go. Thanks Colm for the work to use Kerby in other ASF projects. It does help. I thought we folks here could be able to build a better ecosystem in the security domain for Apache world, we have LDAP and Kerberos, the security basics, the very good base. IMO, we should have quite a few TLP projects around the two basics, instead of ONE monster of so many children projects all here together, looking at the Directory hope page. If I'm a developer and want to contribute to Kerby, I would be frustrated to figure out the right ML, the right REPO and the right relationship/deps with other components. Kerby should have the potential, Directory and big data projects can use it. The question is, will a TLP make Kerby next solid step? Regards, Kai -----Original Message----- From: Colm O hEigeartaigh [mailto:cohei...@apache.org] Sent: Thursday, May 18, 2017 12:34 AM To: ke...@directory.apache.org Subject: Re: [VOTE] - Release Apache Kerby 1.0.0 (take II) I think Kerby is a promising project, but I don't think it has the community yet to justify being a TLP. Hopefully as more Big Data projects adopt it for testing it will continue to grow. Apache WSS4J and CXF have switched to use Kerby 1.0.0 for integeration testing. I will shortly submit a patch to Apache Ranger to use it as well, as there are no kerberos integration tests done there. Colm. On Wed, May 17, 2017 at 3:32 PM, Emmanuel Lécharny <elecha...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > Le 17/05/2017 à 15:06, Zheng, Kai a écrit : > > Good ask. Maybe we could address questions like such: > > 1. How many issues we fixed since RC2 release, any features we've added? > > 2. A summary about Kerby and high level functionalities list? > > 3. Some links to the release artifacts and project. > > > > Not sure if any best practice here. > > The best practice is to send an announcement on annou...@apache.org, > but you already know that. > > You may want to be a bit broader : please contact pr...@apache.org > (Sally Khudairi) if you want some more PR, they would be pleased to > help you drafting something that will be pushed to other channels. > > > That being said, you should also start thinking about moving Kerby to > a TLP, now that 1.0 is out. Please consider doing so while discussing > with press@a.o, so that both moves are done at the same time, in order > to have more spotlights on the project. > > -- > Emmanuel Lecharny > > Symas.com > directory.apache.org > > -- Colm O hEigeartaigh Talend Community Coder http://coders.talend.com
