Hi Sergei, > Perhaps you > could suggest a new one? Something that you'd like to do, that fits in > your area of expertise? You are very welcome to propose a new task!
Thank you for the reply and encouragement very much. I'll have a look. Best regards! Shuang On Apr 17, 2013, at 11:13 PM, Sergei Golubchik <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, QIU! > > On Apr 17, QIU Shuang wrote: >> Hi community, >> >> This is Shuang Qiu, a student from Shanghai, China, major in Software >> Engineering. My field of interests is distributed storage (also a >> little knowledge of information retrieval). > > There's no task on our gsoc page that quite matches that. Perhaps you > could suggest a new one? Something that you'd like to do, that fits in > your area of expertise? You are very welcome to propose a new task! > >> I've focused on the MariaDB project for a while and want to make this >> GSoC a first step into this community :). Based on my experience, I >> think the Kerberos plugin project meets more my taste (also the full >> text search one, unfortunately, which has been crossed out from the >> slate). Although not a very tough task at first glance, but I believe >> there must be some tricky things behind the scene. >> >> I've skip the pointer on MariaDB GSoC2013 home page and have some >> point unclear. How will we configure the Kerberos server? Do we need >> some name resolve protocol to discover the Kerberos service? > > We should behave similar to other projects. There are IMAP/POP3 servers > that can use Kerberos authentication, etc. > > Admins that have already configured Kerberos-aware services before > should find it familiar to configure MariaDB to use Kerberos, there > should be no big surprises. > > Regards, > Sergei _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~maria-developers Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~maria-developers More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp

