Hi Alexey! Thanks for coming back on this. > Considering that I have my own fork of LDAPDB, I am probably in the best > position to take care of this. Would you do it? I mean, would it be just your decision to do so and that's it? Or would there be any voting, committee or whatever involved? Let me know if I can be of any help with that. I was the one who originally needed and asked for these. BTW: The project's webpage at CMU seem to have a problem. The Wiki at http://cyrusimap.web.cmu.edu/ doesn't come up at all and the traditional pages have a lot of [an error occurred while processing this directive] I am asking because in case I found the time I might write up some howto on how to install and use the canon_user plugin. Regards, Torsten -------- Original-Nachricht -------- Datum: Wed, 23 May 2007 12:15:49 +0100 Von: Alexey Melnikov <alexey.melnikov@xxxxxxxxx> An: Torsten Schlabach <tschlabach@xxxxxxx> CC: Thomas Vogt <tv@xxxxxxxxx>, cyrus-sasl@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Betreff: Re: Sponsoring a canon_user plugin for LDAP lookup > Torsten Schlabach wrote: > > > I don't think these patches might ever hurt anyone. I had asked Howard > > Chu who's an experienced guy both here as well as with OpenLDAP (I > > understand he's even the head of OpenLDAP) and even he did not have > > any means of getting that patch in. > > > > If this was an Apache project, then I knew what I'd do to get the > > patch in. But the Cyrus SASL lib project does not seem to have a bug > > tracker > > This is actually not true. Check <http://bugzilla.andrew.cmu.edu> > > > and no list of people with write access to the CVS so one could ask > > specifically. > > Yes. This is missing. The following people have commit access to the CVS: > > Ken Murchison <murch@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Jeff Eaton <jeaton@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > and myself. > > > Getting that patches committed would be the only way to make sure this > > functionality will ever show up in any offical packages on Debian, Red > > Hat, etc. and will become mainstream functionality. > > Considering that I have my own fork of LDAPDB, I am probably in the best > position to take care of this. > > > But first of all, I hope you can make it work. In case you can, please > > let us know and in case a vote will be needed to get this patches > > committed, maybe you could vote for it? > > > > Let me know if I can be of any further help. > > > > Regards, > > Torsten > >