[Pdns-users] Heading up to PowerDNS Authoritative Server release 3.0: please check your open tickets

[Kenneth Marshall]

Hi Nick,

As nice as it would be to have unlimited development resources,
that is never the case. Since no community member has stepped
up to work on the LDAP backend and PowerDNS.com does not have
funds to work on the LDAP backend, it is better to go ahead and
mark them as closed/wontfix. If an enterprising LDAP developer
ever appears, they can find them all and work on them and fix
them just as easily as if they were "open". Other than bug
reports, there has been no ground-swell of LDAP support either
with development time or funds. That is pretty indicative of
its relative importance compared to the more traditional SQL,
Bind and pipe backends.

Regards,
Ken


On Wed, Mar 23, 2011 at 10:10:13AM +0200, Nick Milas wrote:
> Good news about upcoming version.
>
> However, not so good news for the LDAP backend...
>
> So, I feel that LDAP-related issues should - at least - remain open, since 
> they have not been fixed. Closing them with an indication of "Unable to 
> devote time to the LDAP backend" (or similar), would most probably not 
> promote true resolution (fix).
>
> I always hope that a developer can sometime provide fixes for these, esp. 
> 260 & 313 which are bugs (and not feature requests).
>
> Would it help to request e.g. openldap developers with DNS background 
> (through their mailing list) to possibly show interest in resolving them 
> (since no one in pdns mailing list has volunteered and Norbert has stopped 
> support)?
>
> Thanks,
> Nick
>
>
> On 22/3/2011 10:38 ????, bert hubert wrote:
>
>> Ticket #313 (ldapbackend sets TZ to UTC but should not) closed by ahu
>> wontfix: we are currently unable to devote time to the LDAP backend.
>>
>> Ticket #260 (LDAP backend doens't try to reestablish connection once lost) 
>> closed by ahu
>> wontfix: We are currently unable to fix LDAP issues.
>>
>> Ticket #298 (AXFR query fail with LDAP backend) closed by ahu
>> wontfix: We are unable to address LDAP issues at this time.
>>
>> Ticket #318 (Master (Notify) functionality with ldap backend) closed by 
>> ahu
>> wontfix: We are unable to enhance the LDAP backend.
>>
>> Ticket #323 (powerdns authoritative server with ldap backend hangs when 
>> ldap server is ...) closed by ahu
>> wontfix: We are unable to fix LDAP issues.
>>
>
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