[Freeipa-devel] Postponing Topology feature

[Martin Kosek]

Hi all,

I had several offline discussions about the Topology feature [1] and what to do 
with it. Many developers worked pretty hard on making the Topology usable for 
the upcoming FreeIPA 4.2 release, however, it still misses some of the 
functionality that would prevent our users from making the best of it.

Namely:
1) Dogtag Topology management: https://fedorahosted.org/freeipa/ticket/3053
2) Replica Promotion: https://fedorahosted.org/freeipa/ticket/2888
3) Graphical topology view: https://fedorahosted.org/freeipa/ticket/4286

While 3) is mostly an eye candy, without 1) and 2) the current Topology does 
not have sufficient value for our users to ship it. Also, there could be 
upgrade issues when 1) is implemented and we may need to introduce another 
Domain Level.

So what we thought would make most sense for FreeIPA 4.2 is to simply release 
without Topology functionality and postpone it to next version which could 
follow FreeIPA 4.2 within 1-2 months.

Sorry for the inconvenience, but don't worry - Topology is not going anywhere, 
it's coming! (Just a bit later and with more bells and whistles)

[1] https://fedorahosted.org/freeipa/ticket/4302

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Martin Kosek <mkosek at redhat.com>
Supervisor, Software Engineering - Identity Management Team
Red Hat Inc.