[16421] in Kerberos_V5_Development
Re: Windows future
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jeff Blaine)
Tue Oct 5 15:27:11 2010
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Date: Tue, 05 Oct 2010 15:26:55 -0400
From: Jeff Blaine <jblaine@kickflop.net>
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To: Sam Hartman <hartmans@painless-security.com>
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On 10/5/2010 3:21 PM, Sam Hartman wrote:
>>>>>> "Thomas" == Thomas Hardjono<hardjono@MIT.EDU> writes:
>
> Thomas> Hi Jeff,
>
> Thomas> IMHO, at the end of the day if the Kerberos user community
> Thomas> wants to see an on-going development of KfW as a true
> Thomas> open-source project then folks will need to contribute dev
> Thomas> cycles and/or resources. By that I mean cycles on Windows
> Thomas> development for KfW.
>
> Thomas, an important part of encouraging such an open-source project is
> encouraging contributions and particularly being constructive when
> people do try and contribute.
>
> It's my understanding that Jeff Blaine has contributed patches that help
> move towards trunk code building on Windows. Has the core team
> responded to these patches in any way?
Jeffrey Altman perhaps, not me Jeff Blaine
>
> Also, in the interest of openness, it's probably valuable for the core
> team to explain why they didn't do anything with the patches submitted
> as bugs that Jeff Altman references. (I can guess the reason why--and I
> suspect Jeff can as well. However a guess is not the same as an open
> explanation that helps those who wish to contribute understand what bar
> their contributions must meet to be accepted.)
>
> Again, I don't think anything wrong is going on here, but I do think
> that it is important to give realistic encouragement to Jeff, Jeff and
> anyone else who wants to help out.
>
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