Howard Chu wrote: > Matthew Backes wrote: >>>> I wanted to submit a shortish patch, basically backported from the 2.4 >>>> solution for issue 4623 to the 2.3 branch, tested on Linux and >>>> Solaris 9. >>>> I am not sure about the proper way to submit such a patch, any >>>> comment is >>>> therefore welcome. >>>> Technically, it is just a backport of 2.4's fix for 4623. It has been >>>> tested on both Linux and Solaris 9. >> >>> Reviewing this code again, in my opinion this is a feature >>> enhancement and it has no place in 2.3 which is feature-frozen. >> >> Please reconsider; it is a feature enhancement, but it's one that >> matches the text of the docs And the original intent of the docs. >> >> Finer granularity in the divisions between antique/stable/alpha code >> would be helpful both to potential contributors and users. Allowing >> some feature enhancements into 2.3 after each stable-point seems like >> a reasonably mild way to do this; stable-only users will sit tight >> until the stable tag is advanced (and probably quite a bit longer, >> arg), while many others will be interested in trying these features >> long before 2.4 is usable for their sites. > > Well, ideally 2.4 would have been generally released by now. For the > most part its code has been stable for the past several months anyway. > Aside from a couple of minor issues, the biggest missing piece now is > just the documentation.
Well, the TOC is there and anyone who feels the want to pick a section/subsection and contribute, please go ahead. Gavin. > > But in the absence of a general 2.4 release, I guess it makes sense to > do some more minor enhancements to 2.3. Kurt has also identified some > password-control related enhancements to get into 2.3. > > I've got no real problem with putting this code into 2.3 if there are no > objections to unfreezing the release. The code obviously works, and > there's no IPR issue with the submission since the code is all > originally written by me. > -- Kind Regards, Gavin Henry. OpenLDAP Engineering Team. E [EMAIL PROTECTED] Community developed LDAP software. http://www.openldap.org/project/
