Pierangelo Masarati schrieb:

Emiel van de Laar wrote:

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Hi all,

How was the OpenLDAP developers' day? :) I wasn't able to attend but am curious about the discussions and presentations.

Could someone write a brief summary of the highlights. Perhaps there are slides available or audio/video.

Sorry AFAIK no audio/video recording.

My spontanious and incomplete summary would be:

- well visited event with about 30 people - as usual very interesting very technical presentations, which will be on-line soon. - one highlight was the discussion taking place between OpenLDAP core team and samba folks, which showed some common interests and ideas - OpenLDAP works stable even with 150 million entries and performs well in comparision with other products - overlays rule. They are flexible and nicely integratable. - there is sort of a move (through overlays) from LDAP as a stupid data store (thats what X.500 was invented for) to a more intelligent server, which does things like referential integrity checking, etc. To me this is a paradigm change. - back-ldap and back-meta are being maintained and used in production environments - future work on several subjects was mentioned: transactions, component matching, LDAP prep character encoding - A strong need for more documentation was expressed - There is need for newcommers to the core development team. The core team is very much willing to help developpers grow into that role.

I would like to thank all participants for their valuable input at the conference.

Just my personal 2 cent.

Cheers,

Peter

Lots of (qualified, BTW) attendees and interesting discussion (I might be a little biased).

Not sure about minutes, but presentations will be available shortly at http://www.openldap.org/conf/

p.

Ing. Pierangelo Masarati OpenLDAP Core Team

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