[Freeipa-devel] More types of replica in FreeIPA

[Ondrej Hamada]

On 04/23/2012 07:58 PM, Simo Sorce wrote:
> On Mon, 2012-04-23 at 13:50 -0400, Dmitri Pal wrote:
>> Ah OK. Another semantic difference. Doing it in phases is one thing and
>> delivering is another. Let us say we identified 10 things that needs to
>> be implemented. The problem is so huge that Ondrej would likely be able
>> to tackle only couple items from the list. So what should be do with the
>> rest if it is not possible to deliver until all 10 items are completed?
> Ok, so most of the work here is in the KDC, so I think we should first
> go to MIT, present the problem and see what htey think about the
> solution we have in mind. I will try to have a preliminary discussion
> With Tom and Greg about the general idea this week to see what they
> think.
>
> Once that is done we can slice the implementation how we want in a
> private branch until it is fully backed. MIT wouldn't, rightly so,
> accept a half backed solution I would guess, but we also do not need to
> try to rush patches in. Once cleanup work in the KDC has been done as
> part of the 1.11 work I think these interfaces will change little so
> there shouldn't be a risk of wasting too much time to follow upstream
> while we work on one of these problems at a time.
>
>> IMO the work can be started and deferred till someone else can come back
>> and continue what Ondrej have started and bring it to the shape when we
>> are comfortable releasing it.
> Absolutely, esp if we can start after he changes MIT plans to make in
> 1.11 or at least if we plan together so we know which internal
> interfaces are going to be destabilized so we can plan ahead.
>
>> Ondra it time for you to sit down, read this thread thoroughly and craft
>> a design out of it.  Then you would be able to focus on a reasonable
>> subset of what is possible to complete in the remaining time frame.
Ok, will do. I would like to start with the login server scenario. It 
will be possible to use it later as a 'training field' for the 
fractional replication and help deciding what entries should and 
shouldn't be replicated.
> Ok.
> Simo.
>


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