Le 13/05/16 19:50, Stefan Seelmann a écrit : > +1 > > Even if I'm always sceptical adding new code to the Directory project, I > think the PennState guys are dedicated and will help maintain it. I think that Directory does not have to become a giant umbrella for many IDM related projects. IMO, projects like Kerby, Fortress or eSCIMo are expected to become TLP sonner or later. Kerby is probably close to this state witha 1.0 out. Fortress is also close to be a new TLP.
The rational here is to make sure that we have some common interest in having those projects and the associated people working hand in hand, to create a strong community. Kerby was, IMO, accepted because we needed to find a way to get a kerberos server that works. Not that the existing implementation is bad per se, but with the existing code base, and the heavy dependency on ApacheDS and the LDAP API, the entry barrier is so high that it's difficult to find new committers. I tend to think that Kerby benefited from the Directory project, and especially from the exposure it brought, and now that we have 2 PMC members with Kai and Jiajia, plus external committers, we should be able to push it 'out' like MINA. Fortress was also benefiting from ApacheDS, as all the unit tests are based on it. Now that a 1.0 is out, we can also think about making it a TLP. That would be up to Shawn and Chris to see when it would make sense, but the community around it is small atm. Scim, same story. Kiran started it, never had time to get a release out of it, but this is definitively a component that would benefit from the people around. The other aspect is that going through incubation is quite heavy for project like this one. Like it or not, we are on a corner of the IT business... Nobody want to play around Identity Management, it's everything but sexy. That makes it very hard to find new interested people in this area. And if it was only us... Think aboit what happened to OpenSSL last year ! We are not main stream, we are not making the buzz, except when a huge security breach is found. Grabage men, this is what we are... Ah, if only we were as sexy as something in the cloud, or a web framework... ;-)
