Now that I am employed by FastMail, I will have more time to work on
SASL. In fact, I plan to have a 2.1.27 release candidate available by
the end of this week.
On 07/12/2017 07:09 PM, Quanah Gibson-Mount wrote:
Hi all,
I started a small discussion on this in cyrus-sasl issue #433, but the
discussion better belongs here. :)
While I know that Fastmail is taking on the Cyrus-IMAPD project now
that CMU is divesting itself of it, there does not seem to be a strong
plan around Cyrus-SASL. My general understanding is that it is not
something that Fastmail generally uses. However, there are many other
projects where cyrus-sasl is a critical part of the software.
Those include:
OpenLDAP
Postfix
Apache2 (Sasl module)
SSSD
autofs (ldap integration)
Squid proxy
qemu
memcached
Exim
PHP
mutt
389 directory server
subversion
It has been 5 years since the last release of Cyrus-SASL, and
unfortunately it had a number of bugs. There have been a large number
of patches sent to the list in that time, as well as some 142 issues
on the Github site (hard to know full correlation at this time).
There has been some work towards a 2.1.27, but it seem stalled at this
time.
I'm not sure if keeping SASL tied to the IMAPD project makes
particular sense anymore, given the overall changes that have
occurred. Regardless of that particular question, the SASL project
needs a dedicated development team to start churning through what has
come in via the list in the last few years, as well as what's in github.
Generally, for the path going forward, perhaps an inquiry to the
cyrus-sasl list to see if there are individuals willing to commit/join
the SASL project? I certainly would be willing to help with the
release engineering portion, as I do for the OpenLDAP and Heimdal
projects.
I look forward to hearing people's thoughts.
Warm regards,
Quanah
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Quanah Gibson-Mount
Product Architect
Symas Corporation
Packaged, certified, and supported LDAP solutions powered by OpenLDAP:
<http://www.symas.com>
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Kenneth Murchison
Cyrus Development Team
FastMail Pty Ltd
