On Tue, Sep 16, 2014 at 5:44 PM, Emmanuel Lécharny <[email protected]> wrote:
> Le 16/09/14 13:32, Shawn McKinney a écrit : > > Hello, > > > > In order to increase the number of contributers and broaden adoption I > > am considering contributing Fortress to the Apache Directory project. > > I am offering this donation under the advisement of Emmanuel Lecharny > > who is also a committer on the Fortress project. Emmanuel has focused > > his efforts on integrating Fortress with the Apache LDAP API and that > > work is nearly complete. Please let me know if you would be > > interested in discussing this further. > > > > Cheers, > > > > Shawn > > > > > Hi guys, > > let me give a bit more of insigths about this proposal. > > I met Shawn a few years ago ina Ldap conference, when he did a > presentation on Fortress. Fortress is a bit similar to one of our > dormant (defunct?) project : Triplesec, except that it's very well > alive. Shawn was the only contributor to this project untill last year, > when I started to jumped into teh code base. The idea was to use the > Apache LDAP API instead of the license worisome UboundID API. The second > big change I did was to use the ApacheDS test suite into the project. > Last, not least, I implemented an extended operation that Fortress is > using internally to communicate with OpenLDAP (and that should be added > into ApacheDS too). > > Along all those months, we discussed many times with Shawn about > bringing Fortress to The ASF, and more specifically to teh Directory > project, which sounds liek a good replacement for Triplesec. AFAICT, > there is no non AL.2.0 dependencies in the code base, once Unboundid > will be completely removed - just a matter of taking care of some > password policy elements-. > > Now, what is Fortress ? From the www.openldap.org/fortress page, > "Fortress is 100% compliant with RBAC, ARBAC02 and IETF's password > policy draft.". > > First, it's feature complete, which is important in this area. Second, > as you can notice, it's actually hosted by OpenLDAP.org, a well known > Open Source organization. That says Shawn knowns what it's all about, > when it comes to collaboration in a open source environment. > > At this point, I would suggest to start a vote to accept the proposal as > a sub-project of Apache Directory, like Studio, Eskimo and the LDAP API, > but I want to hear about your opinions first. > > we already had a discussion about bringing Fortress to Apache, right? :) +1 > Many thanks ! > thank you for the details -- Kiran Ayyagari http://keydap.com
