hyc@symas.com wrote:
All in all I understand your motivations for pursuing this feature. Despite my dislike for broken specs and broken code, I will not prevent this patch from going in. But you should realize that wrong is wrong, and just because Novell, Sun, and Oracle software is broken doesn't mean we should be broken too. There are other IdM packages out there.
While this is hardly the place for commercial endorsements, I should note that while Neil Dunbar wrote that changelog overlay for HP's purposes, we (Symas) convinced HP to adopt the accesslog format instead and HP does not rely on the changelog any more. If you're looking for software that actually conforms to open specs with some degree of technical merit, you might consider looking there, if you can't convince your current vendors to fix their products.
Rieger, Sebastian wrote:
Hi,
I submitted a patch to update the old overlay of Neil Dunbar to OpenLDAP 2.3. It works for our identity management (using Novell IDM 3.01) - see ITS#4685. As my patch needs cleanup to get into OpenLDAP HEAD I would like to ask, wether the patch to your accesslog that offers changelog functionality (ITS#4656) is likely to be committed to CVS HEAD in the near future. In this case I won't maintain a separate overlay. Thanks in advance for a quick reply, we really need changelog functionality as Novell, Sun and Oracle seem to depend on it.