RE: BDB recovery after power outage

["Mark H. Wood" <mwood@IUPUI.Edu>]

On Tue, 22 Apr 2003, Howard Chu wrote:
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Frank Swasey [mailto:Frank.Swasey@uvm.edu]
>
> > Let's be clear here.  Are you saying "post it to the ITS, do it
> > yourself, or shut up" (that's probably blunter than you intended, but I
> > want to make sure I understand what you are saying) ???
>
> Not exactly. Very simply - unless something is entered into ITS, its chances
> of being acted on by any OpenLDAP project members are next to nil. This list
> is for discussing how to use the software, requests for changes to the
> software belong in the ITS.
>
> re: "do it yourself or shut up" - you're missing the point, which is to use
> the proper channels.

Let me just say that I've found it extraordinarily difficult to discover
the proper channels for contributing to OpenLDAP.  I don't know why --
when I figure that out, I'll do my best to explain it, in the hope that it
may help others who seem to have the same trouble.  Maybe it's just
different styles of thinking, or too much familiarity with other projects
which are organized differently.

I should also say that I tried again, just now, to understand this issue,
and either I finally heard the right words here on this list or the
website has been made much clearer to people like me, because now I do see
what appear to be the "proper channels".  I do feel that the documentation
for OpenLDAP has improved significantly since I first became interested in
the project.  Maybe I'll be able to give back more than an occasional
eccentric email, now.

[sound of me slinking back into my den, to reread more pages]

-- 
Mark H. Wood, Lead System Programmer   mwood@IUPUI.Edu
MS Windows *is* user-friendly, but only for certain values of "user".