[horde] Anyone else want to sponsor separate LDAP write and read servers for Turba?

[Andy Dorman]

On 07/28/2014 08:42 AM, Jan Schneider wrote:
>
> Zitat von Andy Dorman <adorman at ironicdesign.com>:
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>> We are transitioning from an ancient Horde/Imp/Turba set up to the
>> latest debian release (turba 4.2-beta1 currently on our dev server).
>>
>> We use OpenLDAP for authentication and the turba address book.  Our
>> OpenLDAP is set up as a master-slave cluster with a local slave on
>> each web server and only the master accepting writes.
>>
>> Our old turba setup used the "write_server" setting to split reads to
>> the local read-only slave server and send writes to the master.  This
>> has worked well for several years resulting in lightning fast
>> address-book searches in the email compose window.
>>
>> I have just noticed that the latest turba backends.php does not
>> mention a write_server setting and I have not found anything in the
>> UPGRADING, LDAP, or INSTALL docs that mention it.
>>
>> So is it no longer possible to use a separate write_server for Turba?
>
> Correct.
>
>> If this feature has been lost over time, we might be interested in
>> paying a developer to add it for the community if it would not be too
>> difficult.
>
> Great, sponsoring is always welcome!
>

Jan, thanks for the info.  What is the preferred way for us to proceed 
on this?

Perhaps we can see if anyone else is interested in adding the "separate 
read-write LDAP servers" feature for turba so we can share the cost.

Everyone, those of you using LDAP for your Turba address books know one 
big advantage of using LDAP is it's very fast read speed.  This really 
helps the dynamic lookups for existing addresses in your address book 
when composing an email with IMP.  However, if we are hitting the same 
server for both reads & writes, we can loose some of the speed advantage 
when the LDAP server experiences a heavy write load.

So would anyone else be willing to help pay for adding the ability for 
turba to use a separate server for LDAP writes?

Thanks in advance.

-- 
Andy Dorman