Good news indeed. Looking forward to it. On Fri, Dec 26, 2008 at 4:06 AM, Emmanuel Lecharny <[email protected]>wrote:
> Hi, fellow developers ! > > There is a starting project at The Asf : using ADS to manage ASF user's. > This is a good news, obviously, and it fits into the 'eat your own dog food' > category. Right now, the server has been installed on a Solaris zone, for > experiment purpose, and we have injected something like 2000 committers into > this instance. > > The next step will be to use this ADS instance to manage access to > people.apache.org, svn, JIRA and some other tools. We won't switch all the > committers, as we may experiment some difficulties, so we decided to ask for > volunteers. Obvioulsy, we are volunteers ... So all the Directory committers > will be some of the first users of our great server :) > > There are some areas where we will be challenged in the next two months : > we have to check that the server works well when the replication is setup > (we may have some bugs, and we will have to fix them fast). Another aspect > we have to improve the server is the disaster recovery system : we should be > able to restore the server even if the machine crashed badly. This is > something we already discussed in the past two months, but it's now > mandatory to have it working. > > At the end, I'm confident that it will be a success. It's just a matter to > be around if some problems occur. > > Oh, btw, merry christmas to all of you ! > > -- > -- > cordialement, regards, > Emmanuel Lécharny > www.iktek.com > directory.apache.org > > >
