I support this idea as well. How could we move the idea forward enough that I could shop the project around for other developers to help us with it?
Lori On Wed, Jul 27, 2011 at 11:57 AM, David Fiander <[email protected]> wrote: > I would definitely support a pluggable authentication system, since > different communities may use different authentication systems. > > > On Wed, Jul 27, 2011 at 13:59, Galen Charlton <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> >> On 07/27/2011 12:27 PM, Dan Wells wrote: >> >>> There may be other cases where "Patch Available" would make sense, but at >>> least for this case, I think "Under Development" is our best bet (if such >>> a >>> category already exists). The patch which is available is quite old, and >>> is >>> really more of a starting point than something which can simply be >>> applied and >>> run without some additional tinkering. >>> >> >> And mining the open-ils-dev archive more deeply, Dan's patch inspired Mike >> Rylander to do some brainstorming in late 2009 about adding a pluggable >> authentication system to Evergreen. [1] >> >> If folks are interesting in working on it, I'd love to see that discussion >> picked up again, as something like what Mike is proposing would mean much >> more than just LDAP support in core (though that would of course be a big >> win in and of itself). >> >> [1] http://list.georgialibraries.**org/pipermail/open-ils-dev/** >> 2009-December/005481.html<http://list.georgialibraries.org/pipermail/open-ils-dev/2009-December/005481.html> >> >> Regards, >> >> Galen >> -- >> Galen Charlton >> Director of Support and Implementation >> >> Equinox Software, Inc. / Your Library's Guide to Open Source >> email: [email protected] >> direct: +1 770-709-5581 >> cell: +1 404-984-4366 >> skype: gmcharlt >> web: http://www.esilibrary.com/ >> Supporting Koha and Evergreen: http://koha-community.org & >> http://evergreen-ils.org >> > >
