[horde] passwd H4 polishing for release - Requirements and directions?

[Ralf Lang]

Am Mittwoch, 15. Juni 2011, 12:47:43 schrieb Jan Schneider:
> Zitat von Ralf Lang <lang at b1-systems.de>:
> > Am Donnerstag, 9. Juni 2011, 20:23:00 schrieb Eric Jon Rostetter:
> >> Quoting Ralf Lang <lang at b1-systems.de>:
> >> > I've been toying around with the unreleased passwd from git.
> >> 
> >> Thanks.  Are you submitting back to git?
> > 
> > The changes are already in git.
> > http://git.horde.org/horde-git/-/browse/passwd/?ws=1
> > 
> >> > For its main purpose, changing the user's horde account pw, passwd
> >> > doesn't need to be a separate app (as said in the roadmap).
> >> 
> >> Yes, but I would hope we could keep it doing more than just that.
> > 
> > Me too.
> > 
> >> > But passwd is/was more generic and could be configured to change any
> >> > password in a given infrastructure independent of Horde. Such a
> >> > feature should be a separate app and not live somewhere under options
> >> > or preferences. This could evolve into a generic password/credentials
> >> > manager but is a completely different story.
> >> 
> >> And an interesting one, though I'm not sure who if anyone would want to
> >> work on it (so it may never happen).
> > 
> > I had done some work out of tree for re-implementing eleusis from cvs.
> > This has just stalled because there were more urgent tasks.
> > 
> >> > I am not sure what is needed for a proper passwd H4 3.2 release but
> >> > I've found
> >> > 
> >> > the following items:
> >> >  * convert the ldap backend to Horde_Ldap
> >> >  * Make sure the composite backend uses the injector instead of the
> >> >  base
> >> > 
> >> > class' factory method
> >> > 
> >> >  * remove that method
> >> >  * make sure things like Horde_Vfs are included via injector
> >> 
> >> Would certainly be a good start (and work for me, since I use it with
> >> the ldap backend).
> > 
> > We are currently using it with the hordeauth backend, and hordeauth is
> > actually ldap. SQL has also been tested.
> > 
> >  * TODO: Add horde_test unit tests to passwd.
> >  
> >> > I think I could basically do that before H4.1 but passwd ships a lot
> >> > of backends and I doubt I can build the infrastructure to test them
> >> > all properly.
> >> 
> >> If you have horde, sql, and ldap complete, it could probably ship.  We
> >> could see about removing some of the older, less used drivers too.
> >> Others could be released if we at least think they should work, and we
> >> can fix bugs with them as they are reported.  horde/sql/ldap should
> >> cover most people...  Be nice if composite worked too, but probably not
> >> a show stopper.  The kolab folks could probably help get the kolab
> >> driver working.  I'd certainly not be opposed to dropping some drivers
> >> (like pine, servuftp, etc) and shipping with untested ones (like
> >> expect, procopen, vpopmail, vmailmgr, etc).  As long as we have some
> >> well tested popular ones together (sql, ldap, etc).
> > 
> > [..]
> > 
> >> Some could just be dropped (until someone wants to pay for them?).
> > 
> > Sure - open source does not mean people shouldn't pay for special needs.
> 
> We should still convert the existing drivers to H4 blindly. Otherwise
> the code would diverge too much over time. It's sufficient if the code
> looks correct and parses. Users of those drivers can do tests with
> production environments then.
> 
[..]
> Jan.

Okay. I'll blindly convert the remaining drivers next.

Since I started the thread, I didn't touch any but the three "main" drivers 
discussed here, horde, sql and ldap. The latter uses Horde_Ldap now and will 
be tested.

If somebody with an ActiveDirectory setup volunteers for testing, I'll also 
address that use case.


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