Re: samba4 and openchange need reviewers

[Leslie Satenstein <lsatenstein@xxxxxxxxx>]

What type of reviewer are you looking for. I will explain. I am a research analyst with a technology company (my areas of expertise are in technology (hardware and software generalist, (was a hardware designer for 10 years, and software developer/ programmer for about 20 yrs) and currently a specialist in Business Applications. I do a substantial amount of technical writing in many areas. I have used samba, but not recently, and I have been a linux biggot since 2004.  I can write good English, and can make complex ideas easily understandable.

Therefore, I can review and edit for you the Samba team. --In English and some French.

Cheers

Leslie


--- On Wed, 1/21/09, Robin Laing <Robin.Laing@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

From: Robin Laing <Robin.Laing@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: samba4 and openchange need reviewers
To: "For testers of Fedora Core development releases" <fedora-test-list@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wednesday, January 21, 2009, 4:29 PM

Jerry Amundson wrote:
> Normally, I wouldn't bother, but I think this is important because,
> 1. M$ Exchange servers have between 30 and 60 percent of e-mail server
> market share, depending on your search parameters.
> [really not trolling here, so don't bother. there are other more
> important factors to consider.]
> 2. Time has shown that FOSS e-mail *servers* won't push out M$ from
> whatever enterprise it's currently entrenched.
> 3. Because of that, there is more of a need to focus on the e-mail
> client, but current functionality on the open source desktop, with
> respect to Exchange servers, is inadequate, and downright buggy.
> 4. Openchange has the potential to be the bridge - capture the users
> first, then migration to backend solutions is more feasible.
>
>  Bug 453083 -  (Samba4) Review Request: Samba4 - Samba4 CIFS and AD
> server and client
>  Bug 453395 -  (libmapi) Review Request: libmapi - OpenChange:
> Microsoft Exchange access with native protocols
>
> Thanks,
> jerry
>

What timing.  I was just going to fire up yumex and see if there was a Samba 4 package in the testing repository.

I am looking at getting my F10 to access some AD drives at work.

I read the bug reports and I am interested in the Samba 4 part.  I do have one question.  Will the Openchange allow Thunderbird to access Exchange servers?  If so, I will have to think about trying Openchange sooner than later.  We do not have pop3 or imap access.



-- Robin Laing

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