Re: [PROPOSAL] Move AUTH_LDAP to /experimental (was:authentication rewrite)

[Günter Knauf <ef...@gmx.net>]

the last year showed that auth_ldap was always forgotten when the Apache2 APIs changed while all other modules which were in the main source tree were always correctly updated. So this ended up in that auth_ldap wasnt usable / compilable the whole last year; or better since it moved to its own project.
So keeping the module as an own project is more worse than removing it completely from the Apache projetcs...
then it's better if the original author maintains it again...
so if you dont want to move it into the Apache2 sources back remove it completely and tell the original author that the ASF is not willing to maintain the module!

Guenter.

>    Now that 2.0.40 has been released and we are in development of .41
> and the fact that there has been a proposal for re-architecting the AUTH
> modules, I would like to propose that we move AUTH_LDAP out of it's own
> project and into experimental.  This will enable AUTH_LDAP to get more
> exposure as an external module, allow it to be included in future
> releases of Apache 2 for testing and stabilization, and make sure that
> it is not overlooked in future development.  LDAP is an important
> authentication method and should be supported in Apache.