State of roster update.

[Stephen Lien Harrell]

Hello,
I don't know if I have ever posted to this list formally. My name is
Stephen and I designed and implemented much of Roster.

Just wanted to get an e-mail out to those who are interested and
introduce myself and talk about where Roster is and where it is going.

Right now Roster is a good idea with some good code behind it but not
that many people using it. Definitely it needs some shakedown and I am
hoping that some people on this list will be interested in doing that.

Jake(alwayschooseford) has put up an install document to get you
going, and I would be happy to explain the workings of the components
on this list. Please, don't be shy.

We are currently headed for the next release 0.6 in the next month or
two. I would be more specific but it depends on what bugs come up.
There is a tremendous amount of bugs that are fixed in the trunk as it
is. I am currently working on a basic web interface for use with
mod_python. I am hoping to have this in a usable state by the time we
release 0.6.

After I feel that the bugs are shaken out and things are running
smoothly, our the next major feature will probably be DNSSEC .

Also, if you feel there is documentation missing or have some ideas of
what you would like to see/need as far as documentation or features,
please file a bug or we can discuss it here.

Thanks!
-stephen

[daveg]

On Oct 28, 4:25 am, Stephen Lien Harrell <sharrell.pur...@gmail.com>
wrote:

> Hello,
>   I don't know if I have ever posted to this list formally. My name is
> Stephen and I designed and implemented much of Roster.
>
> Just wanted to get an e-mail out to those who are interested and
> introduce myself and talk about where Roster is and where it is going.
>
> Right now Roster is a good idea with some good code behind it but not
> that many people using it. Definitely it needs some shakedown and I am
> hoping that some people on this list will be interested in doing that.
>
> Jake(alwayschooseford) has put up an install document to get you
> going, and I would be happy to explain the workings of the components
> on this list.  Please, don't be shy.

Hi Stephen,

Have had bit of a look at roster but nothing too deep yet, but I like
what I see.

What platform have you been developing and using this on? I've tried
to get this running on Centos 5.x (my work is a RHEL/CentOS shop) with
no luck (it wants a newer version of python than what it provides) and
I'd love to use but can't really sell to the rest of the team unless
it works on CentOS.

Regards,
David.

[David Gillies]

daveg wrote:
> What platform have you been developing and using this on? I've tried
> to get this running on Centos 5.x (my work is a RHEL/CentOS shop) with
> no luck (it wants a newer version of python than what it provides) and
> I'd love to use but can't really sell to the rest of the team unless
> it works on CentOS.

OK, obviously I didn't try too hard last time since I've managed to get
the roster core, usertools and configmanager all installed OK.
roster-server is getting stuck on installing python-ldap. CentOS has
python-ldap 2.2.0 already. Would this be enough to get it going or does
it really need 2.3.x?

Regards,
Dave.

[Stephen Lien Harrell]

It may be fine with python-ldap 2.2, we just haven't tested it.

Why don't you give it a try, in order to get it installed all you have
to do it edit the setup.py, and change the python-ldap version number.

If it ends up working I would be happy to change it in the code permanently.

-stephen