[fab] Fedora Directory Server - Whats happening?

Christopher Blizzard blizzard at redhat.com
Mon Jul 10 20:47:05 UTC 2006


Christopher Blizzard wrote:
> Stephen John Smoogen wrote:
>> On 7/10/06, Christopher Blizzard <blizzard at redhat.com> wrote:
>>> Rahul wrote:
>>> > Hi
>>> >
>>> > So its been a while (September 2004 since Red Hat spend around 25
>>> > million dollars freeing Netscape directory server and releasing it 
>>> under
>>> > the Fedora universe.
>>> >
>>> > Unfortunately the team build up their own wiki
>>> > (http://directory.fedora.redhat.com/wiki/Main_Page) for no obvious
>>> > reason and despite havent been able to run it under GCJ for a while
>>> > havent submitted the package yet to review and include it in either
>>> > Fedora Core or Extras repository.
>>> >
>>>
>>> That was my fault since I jump started them.  At the time, it was
>>> believed that we would have a bunch of little projects building up
>>> around the Fedora name.  And each would have their own little site for
>>> hosting, etc.
>>>
>>
>> Bad Blizzard. Bad.. no cookie for you!
>>
>> What would be the best to help better integrate the two together again?
>>
> 
> Honestly, I'm not sure we want to.  What's the value in the integration, 
> migrating users and content?  That's not without cost.  And you can't 
> sell me on "integration for integration's sake."  Also, talk to Bob Lord 
> (cced) to find out what's going on in Directory-land.  I've been out of 
> the loop for a while.

Oh, he's on vacation for a bit.

--Chris




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