Re: How was developers' day 2006

[Peter Gietz <peter.gietz@daasi.de>]

Pierangelo Masarati schrieb:
> Emiel van de Laar wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > How was the OpenLDAP developers' day? :)
> > I wasn't able to attend but am curious about
> > the discussions and presentations.
> >
> > Could someone write a brief summary of the
> > highlights. Perhaps there are slides available or audio/video.
Sorry AFAIK no audio/video recording.

My spontanious and incomplete summary would be:

- well visited event with about 30 people
- as usual very interesting very technical presentations, which will be 
on-line soon.
- one highlight was the discussion taking place between OpenLDAP core 
team and samba folks, which showed some common interests and ideas
- OpenLDAP works stable even with 150 million entries and performs well 
in comparision with other products
- overlays rule. They are flexible and nicely integratable.
- there is sort of a move (through overlays) from LDAP as a stupid data 
store (thats what X.500 was invented for) to a more intelligent server, 
which does things like referential integrity checking, etc. To me this 
is a paradigm change.
- back-ldap and back-meta are being maintained and used in production 
environments
- future work on several subjects was mentioned: transactions, component 
matching, LDAP prep character encoding
- A strong need for more documentation was expressed
- There is need for newcommers to the core development team. The core 
team is very much willing to help developpers grow into that role.

I would like to thank all participants for their valuable input at the 
conference.

Just my personal 2 cent.

Cheers,

Peter

> Lots of (qualified, BTW) attendees and interesting discussion (I might 
> be a little biased).
>
> Not sure about minutes, but presentations will be available shortly at 
> <http://www.openldap.org/conf/>
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