> [email protected] wrote: >>> My only concern is that it be maintained, so that the OpenLDAP backend >>> can be a supported part of Samba4 into the long term. (I know it's not >>> been in good shape for the past while, but there is hope we can get it >>> back on track). >>> >>> Do contrib modules come with this level of maintenance? >> >> Inherently no, because they would not be configured/built along with the >> rest of the package. Of course, as soon as users (possibly including >> myself) notice issues, they would be maintained (see for example nssov). >> >> The most straightforward way of having it routinely built is to place it >> in slapd/overlays/; I guess this needs consensus from the rest of the >> team. I'd vote in favor; please holler. > > I think contrib is the right place for now. It seems to me that the > requirements here are still a moving target, so it's better in contrib. > (Contrib items are free to add new features independent of the rest of the > release cycle. Items in the main slapd/overlays are more constrained to > bugfixes-only within a release cycle.)
Fair enough. I've started committing stuff to contrib/slapd-modules/samba4 p.
