Plus there is a talk by Emmanuel on the levering aspects of ApacheDS with Fortress. See here:
http://sched.co/1pbm9HK Regards, Pierre Smits *ORRTIZ.COM <http://www.orrtiz.com>* Services & Solutions for Cloud- Based Manufacturing, Professional Services and Retail & Trade http://www.orrtiz.com On Tue, Sep 16, 2014 at 2:34 PM, Kiran Ayyagari <[email protected]> wrote: > > > 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 >
