[Pkg-openldap-devel] I can help especially with testing.

[Quanah Gibson-Mount]

--On Wednesday, January 21, 2009 9:29 AM +0000 Alister Winfield 
<alister at ticklers.org> wrote:

> Hi,
>
>
> Here we use OpenLDAP on Debian with a reasonably large DB >2million
> entries. We already do some testing and have an interest in the quality
> of the OpenLDAP packages. So with almost no extra work I can test
> packages and also assist in other ways if time allows.

It would be great if you could help test new OpenLDAP releases then, such 
as when I call for testing on RE24 on openldap-devel at openldap.org.

While I love Debian, and the packaging system it uses, it's seldom going to 
be up to date with regards to the latest OpenLDAP release.  In particular, 
due to unfortunate timing, the current Debian package (OpenLDAP 2.4.11) is 
vastly different from what the rest of the 2.4 series going forward is, as 
major changes were done in the 2.4.12 release, such as dropping BDB 4.2 
support and adding BDB 4.7 support.  OpenLDAP 2.4.14 has reworked the 
connection code for Linux 2.6 due to some issues with epoll and a race 
condition.  I would familiarize myself with:

<http://www.openldap.org/faq/data/cache/1456.html>

And that's not to say you shouldn't also help test new Debian releases as 
well. ;)

Regards,
Quanah (OpenLDAP project release engineer)


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Quanah Gibson-Mount
Principal Software Engineer
Zimbra, Inc
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