So this is an interesting thread. I am curious if you guys have ever considered building a fork from the Sun OpenDS platform. The 2.2.1 binaries are still available, perhaps the actual source can be obtained from oracle. It uses the CDDL license. Thing is there are already a few forks out there in the enterprise world. OpenDJ now ForgeRock DS, Ping DIrectory formerly UnBoundID, and Oracle Unified Directory. The OpenDS 2.2.1 is pretty old too. They started that project at the same time. I've always liked how modular the OpenDS platform is and have developed plugins for them in the enterprise space. You would probably be able to find some of the enterprise devs willing to work on an opensource version if it's closely related to what they are currently developing.
On Thu, Jul 13, 2023 at 3:11 PM Emmanuel Lécharny <[email protected]> wrote: > > > On 13/07/2023 19:37, Shawn McKinney wrote: > > > > > >> On Jul 12, 2023, at 8:57 PM, Emmanuel Lécharny <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> > >> Apache DS is a pretty big project. It depends on many moving parts: > >> - Apache MINA for the network layer (49,610 Single lines of code, aka > slocs) > >> - Apache LDAP API for the base LDAP operation (212,990 slocs) > >> - Apache Mavibot for the new database (17,590 slocs) > >> - Apache Directory Server (184,006 slocs) > >> > >> and I'm afraid to be one of the only active committer for most of those > projects, with a day job and a family... So doing my best, but it takes > time ;-) > > > > > > I have varying responses ranging from the project’s importance, as > represented by the millions of downloads yearly, to thanking you for your > efforts keeping it going, into encouragement that we continue on. > > > > There’s lots of potential here. But folks seem disinterested in helping. > How can we get this going again? > > This is complicated. > > * First, this is an almost 20 years old project (ApacheDS started in > 2005). It's hard to jump in. > * Second, the code base is impressive. It's alreday hard to get into a > 10/20K lines of code base, here we are an order of magnitude higher. > * Third, in order to get into ApacheDS, you must know MINA, Ldap API, > JDBM, which is not simple > * Forth, the documentation, especially the technical one, is light > * Fifth, LDAP is certainly not the most attractive technology, by far... > > I would also add that The ASF, as a foundation, is intimidating. The > entry barrier is considered high, which is all but true. But, well, even > when we tried to open the doors widely, it didn't brought any new blood! > > So at the end of the day, it's mainly a matter of being passionate. If > you are not, then it might be a need to get something in a brick you use > in your day job. And that's fine too. > > We *could* also advocate more, but that means running conferences, > educating youngies at univ, or whatever works. I'm not an expert at > that. IN 20 years, I was only able to bring 2 students to the project, > and that is pretty much it. > > May be The ASF is also not as attractive as it was? > > Just my own perception here... > -- > *Emmanuel Lécharny - CTO* 205 Promenade des Anglais – 06200 NICE > T. +33 (0)4 89 97 36 50 > P. +33 (0)6 08 33 32 61 > [email protected] https://www.busit.com/ > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] > For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] > > -- Thanks, Brian Wolfe https://www.linkedin.com/in/brian-wolfe-3136425a/
