Re: SummerOfCode suggestions

[Howard Chu <hyc@symas.com>]

Quanah Gibson-Mount wrote:
> --On Monday, March 10, 2008 8:50 AM -0400 Adam Tauno Williams
> <adamtaunowilliams@gmail.com>  wrote:
>
> > > > <quote who="Howard Chu">
> > > > > I recall we had a few ideas last year, but they came up a bit late.
> > > > > Anyone still have some wish list items for this year?
> > > > What about the todo list? Anything good in there?
> > > There are also occasional requests for additional matching rules
> > > support,  that may be something to add.
> > > The Forth based engine also sounds promising.
> > Maybe an overlay to implement USN,  like the uSNChanged attribute in
> > Active Directory<http://support.microsoft.com/kb/891995>   I'd imagine
> > USN support is required for Samba4 to use OpenLDAP as a backend,  and it
> > would just be handy since some tools/scripts assume AD-isms.
> >
> > Just a thought.
>
> You mean like the USN code currently in head? ;)  IIRC, it still needs a
> little bit of work to polish it off.
>
>
> /repo/OpenLDAP/pkg/ldap/contrib/slapd-modules/usn

Actually what it needs is for someone to define an actual use case for it. I 
wrote that overlay up when Andrew Bartlett said "it would be nice if we had 
USN support" but beyond that, no one has stated what "support" is needed.

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