EasyLDAPServerFeisty?

[Gavin Henry]

<quote who="Guido Serra">
>> I subscribed so I could help a bit, but unfortunately I didn't have
>> much
>> time to devote.
>
> same for me ;)
>
>> And when I saw "Fedora Directory Server", I kinda got turned off...
>
> same for some friends of mine too :D

;-)

>
>> Personally, I don't see what the fuss is all about. Big, bloated Java
>> interface, 3 times less performance than OpenLDAP, no out-of-the-box
>> support for such basic things as Samba accounts or even uid
>> auto-increment.
>>
>> On the other hand, I have experimented a bit with Gosa2, and it looks
>> like a nice, extendable front-end to OpenLDAP, with possibility for
>> pre/post creation scripts, group templates, etc.
>
> i'm one of the 5 developers... :p

Cool.

>
>> Apart from that, I have made some major Linux deployments with
>> LDAP: on
>> average 30,000 users, with low-level services (NFS, Samba, Cups),
>> integration with existing servers (Apache/PHP, CMS systems, proxy
>> servers) and X-terminal clusters. I worked extensively on different
>> LDAP
>> schemas to have a complete setup.
>>
>> Typically, all these systems were installed on Mandriva (I'm an
>> ex-Mandrake employee), but now I have converted to Ubuntu and I'm
>> looking for ways to contribute to the project. However, the mailing
>> list
>> is pretty dead, as well as the wiki...
>
> yes... well, the possibility i thought was to port Gosa^2 to this
> project... but...
> i need indications... is there a repository? a toolchain?

lanchpad seems to indicate this possbility.

>
> some friends (reading this list) are making modifications to packages
> in Debian ETCH using debconf... probably that's the only way of
> working on that stuff
>
> let me know,
> any idea? others?
>
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