Re: Re: [VOTE] Incubate Apache Repo

2003-11-24 Thread aok123
Hello, There certainly is a vast amount of potential in a community wide effort. Personally, I'm interested in the potential for using directories to manage both sources and build artifacts particularly because of the ability to associate attributes with the items managed by the repository. W

Re: RE: Proposal: Sponsor becomes Mentor

2003-10-21 Thread aok123
Hello, Just wondering who the mentor is for the Directory Project? I would suspect that Noel is the official Sponsor however I have not seen any discussions concerning the projects mentor. Also wanted to check and see if there are any things (loose ends) still expected of the Directory Projec

Re: Re: Status of Directory incubation proposal?

2003-09-29 Thread aok123
> > Speaking of which ... what is the status of looking at incubation for the > > Directory project? My personal guess is that it got lost in the talk about > > incubating the incubator. > > :-) > > > What needs be done to move that forward? :-) > > personally, i think it should be considered

Re: Re: Official Apache Directory Project Proposal Submission

2003-09-11 Thread aok123
Noel has a very good idea for providing bundles of JNDI ObjectFactorys and StateFactorys for the various published LDAP schema objectclasses so you can read them as objects from a relational entry. So these factories for doing O/R would be packaged into the server and clients as a jar. For e

Re: Re: Official Apache Directory Project Proposal Submission

2003-09-11 Thread aok123
Would be great to have you involved. If you would like to for the time being we can leverage the sourceforge infrastructure. Let me know if there's any particular aspect you want to work on. You would probably be most interested in the ldapd.server.backend source subtree. Take a look at th

Re: Re: Official Apache Directory Project Proposal Submission

2003-09-11 Thread aok123
Right sorry - just saw your email now. My last email basically reiterates your points. Alex > > From: Brian McCallister <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: 2003/09/11 Thu PM 03:00:37 EDT > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: Official Apache Directory Project Proposal Submission > > Argh,

Re: Re: Official Apache Directory Project Proposal Submission

2003-09-11 Thread aok123
Brian, Directories are highly specialized databases because they store and search on data. That's pretty much the extent to which they overlap. LDAP and X.500 are also network protocols and involve alot more than just the relational aspects they share with most databases. Besides their acc

Re: Re: Official Apache Directory Project Proposal Submission

2003-09-11 Thread aok123
Brian, Actually we have implemented a rudimentary relational database (non-sql) inside the server specifically to optimize for LDAP, however the engine core could be reused for an RDBMS. Both and RDBMS and an LDAP server are databases really. Actually the combination of an RDBMS coupled

Re: Re: Official Apache Directory Project Proposal Submission

2003-09-10 Thread aok123
We're at the disposal of the Incubator and hope to find answers to these policy questions ourselves. In the LDAPd project for example we followed Apache rules for accepting committers to the best of our abilities. Where ever possible we try to follow the Apache way. Hopefully Nicola and those

Official Apache Directory Project Proposal Submission

2003-09-10 Thread aok123
On behalf of the Apache members and LDAPd members associated with this perspective Incubator podling, I officially submit the Incubator proposal for what will eventually become the Apache Directory Project. The proposal document is online here as a wiki: http://nagoya.apache.org/wiki/apachewiki