
On 2011-04-18 11:02:49 (+0200), Andreas Jaeger <aj@novell.com> wrote: [...]
The build service team has been developing a completely new proxy server that uses ldap directly to get rid of the broken ichain proxy. The systems is ready but we would have loved to give it some more testing and had hoped that ichain would be with us a few more days...
On a side note ... Let me first state this, just to try to avoid being misunderstood: thanks a lot to the OBS team at Novell to come up with a solution [1]. [1] which is most probably this, looks cool: https://gitorious.org/opensuse/apache-mod_auth_memcookie But it is yet another example of something being developed as an in-breed solution in a couple of offices at Maxtorgraben, 5 in Nürnberg. If we are one community, one (huge) team, why aren't things like these discussed openly on one of our way-too-many mailing-lists? Why don't people try to profit from the experience and knowledge of other members of our community ? Maybe someone has extensive experience with such requirements (it's SSO, basically) and can provide good information or even time and code. It's probably not so much of a problem with this particular issue, as most of us will never have access to the LDAP where all our accounts are stored, but the same happens with e.g. architectural brainstorming and decisions for the OBS itself. And yes, I'm as guilty of making the same mistakes over and over again, like so many of us, and I'm *not* trying to blame anyone, it's not personal, just a general comment which, hopefully, will make us all think about doing stuff in the wide open at the earliest stages, not when everything is decided already. One cannot expect people to contribute when all the architectural decisions, all the thinking about how to do something has taken place already. cheers -- -o) Pascal Bleser /\\ http://opensuse.org -- we haz green _\_v http://fosdem.org -- we haz conf